The Film Loading Class will enable the participant to logically work, plan & strategize the mechanics on a television or feature production.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
The Film Loading Class will enable the participant to logically work, plan and strategize the mechanics on a television or feature production using motion picture film stock. Planning the start of a production or coming into a show halfway the information will calm the nerves with the knowledge taken away.
Reading the label of the film can, taking inventory of factory-sealed cans of motion picture film stocks from re-cans, short ends and waste ends. Looking at a call sheet and figure the game plan for the day and how to react and plan for tomorrow’s work.
Working with an “old school” Daily Film Inventory worksheet paperwork for each stock and then the use of a laptop using an automated Excel spreadsheet program that will be handed out on a USB for each participant to work within class and guided through the mechanics. Filling out a P.O. (Purchase Order) from accounting and sending the film to the lab.
Sending motion picture stock to a “2nd Unit” or “Aerial Unit” from your truck’s inventory and then receiving the un-used film stock back into your main inventory is where problems occur. We will go over the number of problems I have encountered over 20 years and the sequences to prevent any paperwork mishap and the inventory not balancing.
If possible, we will do a walk and talk of a camera truck with a darkroom to give the class an idea of the proper layout of a film camera truck. How to make a darkroom “light-tight” and how to build an “On Set Kit” for use when the truck is a mile away. Working with a film changing bag and a film changing tent.
We will load the most popular film magazines in class. Panavision, Arriflex 35mm possibly 16mm stock magazines. How to do a correct scratch test and the mechanics of how to do registration and steady test at a camera prep floor or wherever you are prepping. Talk about the Seven Layers of the film emulsion and about the lab “Pushing or Pulling” the film stocks and how that affects you as the film loader….
REQUIREMENTS: 18 YRS AND OVER
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: LAPTOP NEEDED W/ MICROSOFT EXCEL AND SOME PROFICIENCY WORKING IN EXCEL