Peter deWit

Another issue to consider aside from quality is latitude. The Vision2 stocks give you a huge amount of leeway in exposure while still being a high speed film. Digital on the other hand tends to have alot of trouble handling extremes of light and dark. This can make doing things like shooting a night much more difficult. If your production looks to have many night or low key lighting scenes I would be careful about choosing digital. You can still acheive a good image with digital in these situations but be sure to always use a properly calibrated monitor to be sure. I have personally never shot on an HD camera so I can't say if they handle low light better

You could always gel the lights to look even greener like Soderbergh did in The Limey :). Actually came out looking very interesting

I was thinking of looking for an Arri S to buy(I loved that camera) Just out of curiousity how much does one go for?

Be sure to also fully test the lens. Try out a variety of f-stops, zoom and focal distance settings to make sure it works well.

I'm a poor college student so I'm at the mercy of what my school gives me. So far I've used The Filmo, The Arri-S and the Arri-BL

The exact mechanism film motors use I'm not sure about but it is controlled by a crystal. Crystals put out a constant frequency which can be used for timing like they use for quartz powered watches.

I'm a student and I just finished shooting a short using a 16mm Arri BL. It was extremely stupid of me but about halfway through the shoot I was informed that I should be using the outer black bars to frame my shots. I had up until that point been framing my shots up to the very edge of the viewfinder. People have told me conflicting things about what the result will be. Some told me that when i tranfer over ot DV I should be able to center the image how I like thus saving important information that I framed incorrectly. Others have told me that anything outside those black markings will not be recorded onto the film at all. Does anyone have experience with this camera? I haven't gotten my stuff back from the lab and its driving crazy thinknig my framing mistake may have ruined many of my shots.

Walter Murch's book In the Blink of an Eye has a very in depth but easy to understand debate of Digital vs Analog film edting. Slightly different topic but it may prove useful . A book you should definately read if you're interested in film anyway :)

Thanks I'll have to go check out Hannibal and see how they did that lighting effect. It might be tricky becasue of the very limited window(sorry bad pun) of time I'd have to shoot with the natrual lighting coming into the room.

I'm not sure how often this method is used but in Eyes Wide Shut didn't Kurbirck make use of high wattage practicals? He took ordinary household lighting and simply put higher wattage bulbs in them until he had sufficient light for the scene. Anyone know more about this?

Well basically this scene is about a job interview. The person being interviewed is a compulsive liar who's entire identity is a fasade. Thats why I thought visually it would be interesting to have different kinds of light on both sides of his face.

You might be better off playing with the color correction in post where you have more control of it

I'm working as DP on a student project. We are going to one scene in an office with large bay windows. A large portion of the light for the scene is going to be coming from those windows. I'm also going to to be using additional tungsten lights for fill as well. I was considering not correcting for the daylight to give the scene a more interesting look. I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice as far as setting up my lighting goes. I'm going to be using Vision 200T film.