Student Filmmakers - June 2008 - (Page 10) Cinematography thing about shooting negative, is when you transfer it in telecine to tape, the telecine process can automatically convert your developed negative into a positive image without having to incur the cost of printing the negative in the lab. A film camera can hold different size magazines, the average size being a 400 foot magazine and a 1000 foot magazine. A 400 foot 16mm camera magazine holds 10 minutes of raw footage. A 35mm 400 foot magazine for a 35mm camera holds half the time at 5 minutes. Many cameramen like to use 1000 foot magazines on their 35mm cameras because they can get 11 minutes of footage and don’t have to change out the magazines as much during a shoot. You can decide whether you want to shoot with a fixed telephoto lens, or use prime lenses on your movie. A telephoto lens will give you most of the shots you need, from close-up to wide establishing shots, but the image will have more of a flat appearance and not as much depth as if you used prime lenses. Prime lenses can be attached and removed. Lenses can be wide at 18mm (giving your subject a comically distorted look) to a normal lens, 50mm on a 35mm camera (appears exactly as it looks to the naked eye in terms of size), to a telephoto lens 100mm (brings the subject closer creating a larger object in frame). Lenses on a 16mm camera do the same thing as on a 35mm camera but their millimeters are cut in half. For example, a normal lens of 50mm on a 35mm camera (the subject four feet away, looks four feet away), would be a 25mm lens on a 16mm camera. When shooting with a film camera, you may want to consider a video tap, which allows you to have video assistance. Video assist was created by Jerry Lewis. In 1956, Jerry attached a video camera to the film camera to record his scenes on video at the same time the film camera was rolling. Lewis directed and starred in many of his movies, but found it difficult to gauge his performance while doing double duty as director (and wouldn’t see the results until the film came back from the lab). This is how video assist was born. Similar 10 studentfilmmakers June 2008
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