John Alexander Jimenez: On Kodak Film

From American Cinematographer, Opportunities With Attitude by Holly Willis (March 1999)
Director: Joe Carhahan
DP: John Alexander Jimenez

"For the outside shots, I'd keep using 7245. Even though it was bits and pieces from different cans and different times, I tried to keep it as consistent as I could," he (Jimenez) says. Interiors were shot on the 500asa EXR 7298. Notes Carnahan, "The 45 is pretty much like the vanilla [emulsion] of the Kodak line-- their basic exterior stock-- but it's got incredible latitude. On some scenes, we were overexposed by more than a stop-- some of our exteriors were completely blown out-- but it came out pretty well. Again, with the interiors and the 7298, there was a lot of latitude, and we also got very dense blacks, which I like."

David Klein: Making 16mm look like 8mm

From American Cinematographer, Shooting for Laughs by David E. Williams (March 1999)

During the filming of Carlo's Wake, four flashback sequences needed to have a...

"Home-movie look that could represent four distinct visions. Originally, we thought about shooting them in super 8mm, but we didn't have the budget to do the blow-up from super 8 to 35mm, so we just shot in 16mm, shooting two versions with 7239 reversal film and two with 7298, which I pushed to increase the grain and emulate that home-movie feel."

Klein notes that these sequences also feature more expressive lighting with contrast and blown-out highlights, which adds flavor to the film's overall look.

- David Klein