Fuji Eterna 8673 500T - 16mm Short Film - B-Rolls & Behind the Scenes 

Oh wow, enjoy the process!! I hope you have a great shoot!

Nicholas Nolan ahh yeah 16mm does indeed look very pretty. Film in general is just a wonderful thing. 16mm is very affordable these days so you should think about buying a short roll and just shooting some. Borrow a camera and get going.

Thank you so much !!!

Thank you very much :) Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you Norma for taking the time to watch and then write such a supportive and kind comment! Cheers, Elliot

Thank you. Good luck with your short.

Thank you, very kind.

Thanks, will try out best to keep the content coming.

oldlugger1 thanks very much my friend!

Ah thank you so much, such a nice comment :) really great to know that people enjoy this or get something from it. You're very kind. Have you shot on film/do you plan to? Thanks again and best of luck with you studies!

REELOnlineFilmSchool Hi, sorry for the late reply. I would like to shoot on film to see what it's like, but facilities wise it's too difficult. So far in my two year degree (2nd year now) I'm only just beginning use the camera (it's all bloody essay's), in this case SAE QANTM's Canon 60D DSLR - video & stills in RAW, this is because we are doing documentaries this Trimester, and we need something smaller and more portable. They keep saying we'll get to use the RED camera but my course will be over soon! In 2013 I did a 12 x months Cert IV Screen & Media - TV Strand, so I got to use a larger TV ENG type camera in Semester 1, then in Semester 2 we used TV Studio pedestal mounted camera's (multi-camera with Control Room). Kind regards.

Cheers.

Thanks guys - appreciate it! How's things with you?

cool, thanks. look forward to seeing it :)

Thank you Joshua. The tripod is a Ronford (medium-duty I think), a Ronford F4 fluid-head, but there isn't a base plate as the SR can just screw straight onto the head. Also, don't know what the rail mm is but they're just the standard SR rails. Cheers, Elliot

TweetBomb hello! Thanks for your comment. We have a blog over at reeldealfilmschool.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-m-m-bayliss-16mm-short-film/ about the making of this film. But to answer your questions about lenses: Zeiss Distagons 9.5 / 12 / 25 + 10-100 Zoom and then for lighting: 4 Dedo lamps and a 2kW blonde for the moonlight outside the window. Hope all that makes sense, best Elliot

@@Elliander Thank you so much for such a quick reply, was not expecting it haha. Just wanted to say your cosmos film looks incredible even being shot on the BMP! I do still hope you continue to shoot on the beautiful and authentic format that is film. Thanks again Elliot, wishing the best.

TweetBomb no problem my friend. Thank you for your good questions. And thank you for your compliments re cosmos. Can’t wait to finally share it - it’s been a long old journey. But yes, there truly is nothing like film and I hope we get to shoot something on it again. We have 2 rolls in the fridge just have to figure out a short to shoot. Fingers crossed we’ll have some time now Cosmos is complete. Have you any projects shot on film available to see online? Cheers, EW

@@Elliander Apologies getting back to you so late. I'm gearing up to shoot a short film out here in LA next summer. Going to be shooting on the SR3 with Canon FD primes. When everything is said and done and I've released it into some film festivals for the following year I'll be sure to let you know!

@@TweetBomb Awesome to hear it! Keep 16mm alive! We'll likely be out in LA next summer so would be amazing to drop by your shoot and see you! Keep us posted. Good luck, Elliot

Hey guys - pretty snowed under with work at the moment (not necessarily a bad thing!) Will get another video out asap - apologies for the delay!

REELOnlineFilmSchool No problem! It would be really cool, if you could do some vlogs out of your life, when you are working on other filmmaking stuff! I guess, you are also filmmakers in "real life"? not just on youtube ? Thx for your answer!

Ahh okay, we'll see what we can do. Most of the time we're just in meetings but we'll try and shoot some more BTS stuff on anything we're doing at work :)

Gianni M do you mean checking the camera’s gate? In between each shot you check the gate for “hairs” (slithers of film that slice off as the film runs through the camera system) - these hairs can ruin the shot you’ve just capture... or the shot you’re about to

And how did you guys do the metering?ust with the sekonic or with a digital camera aswell? what did you meter for? slighly shawdowy midtones?

We metered with a light meter as you would when shooting film any other time. We did not use a digital camera as a back up, tbh I wouldn't even know how to do that in a way I would trust - I fully trust the light meter and the practice setting exposure that way. And we metered for a general exposure, nothing fancy or clever over or under, just making sure the key light would be exposed correctly for each shot.

oh good to know! thanks for explaining. @@Elliander

yup then we are doing the same thing :) i mostly measure the midlights if i'm shooting natural light and the light source bouncing off with tungsten :) thanks for letiting me know your workflow - appreciate it! and the film oof course looks beautiful!! @@Elliander