Nick Sempos

Hello, i am finally working with 35mm film and i'm kinda nervous about it. Just wraped a feature filmed on the Arriflex SR3 16mm and it all went smooth, almost nothing was out of focus. They called me up for a run and gun sequence commercial shot on 35 and I said yes cause in my mind i thought it could be almost the same as 16. I did speak with the producer explaining i had never worked with the Arricam LT and 435 and he said that theres gonna be a loader and a 2nd Focus Puller for B cam. I'm planning to check the cameras for 2 days so I can feel confident in even loading the camera. I think i can also manage to have a UDM to help me with focus also. Do any of you guys have some advice maybe? Would really help!

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On the contrary i'm looking to enhance saturation and make the skintones pop, if i were to do a skip-bleach by pass would that mean a lack of those? Your images are really helpful and now that you mention eyelight it would be something i really need to think about.

Yes I mean exactly that, big patches of black area. I'm shooting 16mm. I would try to light for about a T/2.8 (if by stop range you're reffering to that. Also I will have the abillity to light, in mind that the scene is going to be on a theater stage.

First of all this is my first post on this forrum and i wanted to say thanks for all the shared knowledge. I'm shooting a personal project on Kodak 500T and i'm planning some really contrasty shots, I've worked with this film stock mostly as an AC so i'm not sure how the film behaves under really contrasty enviroments. Most of the DPs i've worked with used fill light and never underexposed. Is it a safe bet to shoot it at a 320ASA rating and then bring the blacks down in post after the scan (4k Scan at Prores4444 Lasergraphic Scanstation 6.5K motion picture film scanner.) even if threy are crushed or should i use some room tone to lift them on set? And also I was wandering what should the stop difference be from middle gray to black for that to not be clipped. Thank you a lot in advance, happy to be a part of this community.