Chris Settlemoir

Thanks for the advice. What about a day for night shoot? Since there is a campfire in the scene I figured that day for night would look bad because the fire wouldn't look bright enough. Am I right? Thanks, Chris Settlemoir

I am shooting a short, 16mm, sync sound, student film where three people will be sitting around a campfire in the forest at night. We will be shooting with Kodak Vision2 500T film and the camera we are using has a lens the opens up to F 2.2. The lights we have available are: Mole Richardson three 600w lights one 1000w solar spot Arri four 650w lights two 2000w lights In addition to the lights we will have an actual campfire burning. As far as power is concerned, we will be running extension cords from a house, which means that we won?t be able to use very many of the lights. We do have a 2500 watt generator but it is very noisy and would need to be placed far away. Any suggestions on lighting the scene, simulating firelight, simulating moonlight or what gels to use would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris Settlemoir

Ok. Thanks for the input. It's greatly appreciated.

Does anyone else have any input? If the lab actually rebleached my film would the rebleaching process take off emulsion that wasn't supposed to some off? Did I get ripped off because I was a student who didn't know any better? Thanks.

Thanks for the information. It helps a lot. I am pretty sure that they "rebleached" the film because they gave me a discount and next to the discounted price they wrote "film needed to be rebleached."

I am a student at California State University Northridge and I just shot my first film project. The film stock I used was Kodak Tri-X Reversal Film 7266. I dropped it off at the processing place and when I cam back the next day to pick up the film they said that they had made a mistake! Since this is my first film project I am not completely familiar with the process but they said that they messed up with the bleaching part. Apparently it didn't get enough bleach and the film came out with a dark streak along the entire length of the roll. (They showed me the film and I could see the streak.) They said that they would rebleach it and to come back later. When I came back later they had rebleached the film and the streak had been removed. Is this bad for the film? Does rebleaching the film have any effect on picture quality? Thanks for any help/advice! Chris