[Frameworks] Advice with screening format for festival. Help!

[Roger Wilson]

Hi Dana,
I would go with Pip's suggestion. Did you re-shoot the film on 7222 using an optical printer? Do you have access to some 7234 Intermediate film stock? If you have access to an optical printer and you can get this stock I would double splice the original and re-shoot it using the printer. Then send this negative to the lab to make you a projection print.
If you are getting the lab to do the above work then I would just edit the original 7266 footage to match how you edited the film digitally, double splice the film and send it to the lab and have them create an internegative. The lab can then create you a final print from this internegative.
Is this a silent film?
Do you have access to a 16mm steenbeck? If you are interested in doing the entire thing yourself you can create a print using the steenbeck as a contact printer. If this interests you send me a message off list and I can go into detail on how to do this.
As for having a digital transfer completed so that it still looks like film, well I just finished a 22 minute 35mm black and white film. I have a 35mm projection print of the final film plus a 2K digital copy of the film. The film screened last night at a local venue and their 35mm projector broke down so they ended up screening my film digitally. The video projector they have is an HD projector however the quality did not match what you would find in high end commercial theaters so the 2K transfer looked like crap compared to the print. You can have a 2k transfer done on your film but if the digital projector being used to present the work is low end then its going to look as best as that projector can look. My opinion is if you want the look of film then you need to project film, because really they are two completely different processes in projecting a moving image
To keep the process of projecting film alive I strongly encourage you to finish to film and if there is anything I can do to help you please let me know. Film looks best on film:)
Good luck!


Roger D. WilsonFilm Scientist613 324 - 7504rogerdwilson at sympatico.cahttp://www.rogerdwilson.ca
Without failure you can never achieve success. I have based my process and my career as an experimental film artist on this statement; and I welcome it as it pushes me forward as an artist to try something different, something new. 

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:38:50 -0700
From: d.naduff at gmail.com
To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] Advice with screening format for festival. Help!


  

    
  
  
    Dear Frameworkers,

      I have an 8-minute 16mm film scheduled to be screened in a few
      weeks in Europe and had I hoped to send it in film form. 

      The original was shot in 7266 Tri-X reversal on three 100' rolls
      and the festival selected it from a low quality transfer, where I
      cut the three rolls together digitally.

      

      So in order to send a clean print, my plan was to re-shoot on
      negative, have the negative cut, and then print it seamlessly on
      one piece of film to send to the festival.

      

      Which I did. But the print from the 7222 negative has crawly
      grain! It looks like it's being projected on a bed of squirming
      lice; the image is just too subtle to handle the grain and I can't
      sent it.

      

      It only needs 2 splices, 4 with leader: should I try to splice the
      original with tape or cement splices (will a festival take tape
      splices and should they be both sides?)? 

      

      Or would I be better off to send the rolls out to be scanned in 2K,
      cut it together digitally, and send digital media files (how big
      is big enough to look like film?).

      I only have three weeks before it must ship.

      

      Thanks for any advice on this! 

      xo Dana

      

      

      

    
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