Hey,
I've wanted to shoot on 35mm for a really really long time, and I'm finally going to do a project with it, hopefully. Therefore I'm planning to do a test shoot quite soon, and I was wondering how you may go about testing different filmstocks with different processing and so on.
For example, I'd like to test out different film speeds, aputures, overexposing at different stops and pull process, and so on. What I don't quite understand is how you can do so many tests on a limited amount of stock. As you can only buy film in certain lengths, and the lab would only do one type of processing for each can you send them, how do you do it without having it be stupendously expensive?
Do you use lots of short ends, and send each for a different processing? Do you cut the roll into to smakker pieces before sending it off? Or is there something I've missed? I can't see how everyone could fill an entire 100' roll for example for each test they do, and I've noticed some people do a pretty fair amount of testing prior to shooting, as that is indeed part of the cinematographer's job, as I've understood it.
Thanks very much in advance