BMPC vs. Super 16 Film at DVinfo.net

Marty Hamrick · March 3rd, 2014, 02:04 PM

I was looking at some of the BMPC test footage shot with 45 year old Angeniuex lenses. It was pretty sweet footage and I thought about an experiment of doing a shoot with a BMPC and an Eclair ACL, swapping the same lens back and forth. Shoot something like two actors exchanging dialogue where you cut back and forth, mixing up long,medium and wide shots with both cameras. I would like to see how closely the colorist could match the two mediums and see how seamlessly they could be blended. We've seen Hollywood mix film and digital back and forth, but its usually cut between very different shots, day scenes' vs. night scenes and slow motion shots where film is still preferred, but not in something within the same location sequence.
How would you approach such a project and what would you use to blend the two mediums? Could you fool the film "purists" ?

March 3rd, 2014, 02:04 PM	#1
Marty Hamrick Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Windsor, Ontario Posts: 42	BMPC vs. Super 16 Film I was looking at some of the BMPC test footage shot with 45 year old Angeniuex lenses. It was pretty sweet footage and I thought about an experiment of doing a shoot with a BMPC and an Eclair ACL, swapping the same lens back and forth. Shoot something like two actors exchanging dialogue where you cut back and forth, mixing up long,medium and wide shots with both cameras. I would like to see how closely the colorist could match the two mediums and see how seamlessly they could be blended. We've seen Hollywood mix film and digital back and forth, but its usually cut between very different shots, day scenes' vs. night scenes and slow motion shots where film is still preferred, but not in something within the same location sequence. How would you approach such a project and what would you use to blend the two mediums? Could you fool the film "purists" ?