Advice for my school's film

[denz]

Hi Everybody,

I'm Denis. I'm new here but very happy to discover this great forum. So I'm studying filmmaking in Sydney but I'm belgian. That's a short introduction.

I'm planning to shoot a short film in couple of days in Super 8, I got a chinon pacific 310. I might film with a roll of 64 T and three of 200 asa.
I would like ot have any advice of people who have already use this camera. My main concern is the aperture reagrding the lights. I would like to shoot as much as i can with practical lights.
Any advice or remarks.

Thank you very much

[MIKI-814]

Welcome Denis. Are you going to shoot indoors or outdoors?

[denz]

Hello,

I have 2 scenes outdoor where i think i ll use the 64 t and a couple indoor where i ll use the 100 d.

Any suggestion for the exposure? Or more general advice?

[Blue Audio Visual]

100D is daylight balanced, and 64T tungsten balanced, so wouldn't you be better off doing it the other way round???

Indoors with tungsten lighting:

64T = 64ASA (internal 85 filter disengaged)
100D = 25ASA (with external 80a filter)

Outdoors in daylight:

100D = 100ASA (internal 85 filter disengaged)
64T = 40ASA (using internal 85 filter)

[Will2]

Are you transferring and editing on a computer or cutting film and projecting?

There are a few schools of thought on film color. Most DPs want to get as close as possible in camera to the final color they are looking for by choosing the appropriate stock (daylight/tungsten) and use filters. That always made sense to me.

I've recently run into more colorists that say to simply always use daylight balanced film unless you know you are shooting under true tungsten lights without any daylight bleed.

It's always a good idea to talk to whomever is going to be telecine/coloring your film to see what generally works best for them. The quicker it is for them to get to your color vision the less money it will cost.