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Greetings, I'm planning to shoot a test with Sony 'V1' HDV PAL camera for transfer to 35 mm film. I'll be gratefull if anyone shares some experience on this topic. Dian Zagorchinov Cinematographer

I've just finished shooting a TV pilot, mostly location day interiors, very tight spaces. My biggest problem is the fill light - most of the time I want it from the camera, very soft. But: 1. When the roof is low, the dolly grip or crew blocks the soft fill. 2. Bounced light takes a lot of...

Thanks for the replies. What about pulling/pushing the black and white intermediate? Any experience with this? Thanks again. Dian

Thank you for the quick response, Mr Mullen. What about the color timing, I guess one should do it from the original negative straight to a work print, and then carry on with the intermediates without color intervention. It will be nice idea to do additional color timing of the desaturated...

I want to know more about the technical steps when desaturating color on film by A/B printing from color and b&w intermediate. Is it done from two dupe negatives to print film, or from two dupe positives to dupe negative? Can anyone share some experience? Thank you! Dian

Thanks for the info! Dian Zagorchinov

Thank you! Dian Zagorchinov

Hello, Mr. Mullen, I'd like to know more about shooting tests before starting production. From your experience, can you tell what tests you mostly do? What tests did you shoot for "Northfork" and your other bigger productions? Do you shoot all tests and then watch, or shoot a test, watch, then...

Hi there, My upcoming thesis film will be produced in Super16 for blow-up to 35mm print. The negative stock is Kodak, the film type is of my choice. I've never shot Super 16 before, so I have a some questions, before I start testing: 1. Are there any specific S16 tests I should shoot? 2. What...

Hi, I was curious what kind of lenses and filtration Kaminski used in 'Munich'. There is some strange filtration visible particulary in the scene where the hit team have launch for the first time. Thanks, Dian Zagorchinov, Cinematographer www.zagorchinov.com

Thank you for this extended explanation, Mr Mullen, I really appreciate it!

Hi, About these filters: ProMist/Warm ProMist/Black ProMist/Warm Black ProMist Black/Warm/Gold Diffusion/FX Warm Soft/FX Black/White Softnet Fog/Double Fog I was wondering if someone can provde an explanation and comparison about the exact difference and results between these filters. I can't...

Hi, very often I can see on production photos, a heavy Panther dolly put on skate wheels on tracks. Why someone needs to do this? Thanks!

Thank you, Mr Mullen. I think I am prety much clear now about how to proceed with the test. The image I am looking for has to be as much desaturated as possible, with a little bit higher contrast, but definately not blocked blacks and burned whites. Since I can't afford a flashing device, I...

Greetings, As a student cinematographer, I was wondering about the process of bleach bypassing the print film. Since I am going to test this process this week I want to ask for some advice. I have the sensitometric charts from the local Kodak approved Boyana Film Lab - both from normal print...

This is great advice for me, thanks Mr. Mullen. And most important, thanks for the tip about directors and editors falling in love with certain image, I'll have this in mind.

Ok, tested some still camera jpg files today, just to figure out the process. Basically, I took a hi-res jpg (virtualy loseless compression) from dpreview.com and applied a fake compression algorithm to it - convert to LAB, then strong pixelization and little blur of the two color channels...

That's exactly what I am trying to figure, thanks MarkG. But a new question apperared in my head - if the actual light in the lens is blue (when doing the correction with filters) will there be a color bleed again? I assume the compression will again throw out maybe half of the blue color...

Hi, I want to make a very bluish and cold image for a student short movie which I'll shoot next month. So, I was wondering what is the best way to achieve the bluish cast: 1. to use strong correction filters on camera or 2. to cheat the white balance or 3. to shoot strait and do it in post...

I think it's the first shot in the precog temple after the opening credits. The precog visions suddenly cut to the blinking eye of Aghata filling the whole frame then whoop! crane up and the camera now shows the body of Agatha in the white liquid. She then says "murder". I think there is at...