Hi, im working in a short film, we have 5 minutes film for day and 5 for night, but the film duration is about 9 minutes; 5 for night. So we think about film a part with HD camera, but i dont know if is a good idea or what to do for use film and hd and looks almost the same…
If can give me your opinion or tip, will be very appreciate.
BTW sorry for my english.
Well, there is no way to get digital footage looks 100% like film stock yet. But some hd cameras (viper, d20)with a good post production (LUTs) and match grain, can offer maybe a “visually” similar look to film.
In my opinion, if you dont have any choise than shooting with hd and film, i will def try to shoot on HD those scenes with not too much dynamic range to expose, and not too much colours. And also, never mix hd and film in the same scene.
Cheers,
Matias.
PD: same sorry for my english :P.
Yeah, I would just pick 1 format and use that - either 16mm or HD.
500ASA film can see into pretty dark places, and there’s even 800ASA and you can push BOTH to even higher ratings if you’re actually worried about using film at night. You actually don’t need much light.
The bonus of shooting HD is the instant gratification effect - you don’t have to wait for development and transfer (or PAY for it, for that matter). You can shoot it, and when you go home at night (assuming your editing tools are at home - but you get the idea) capture it onto your computer. The downside of HD is it is very high contrast - colors get too saturated too quickly, you can blow out to white (in which case all the highlight info is gone) and you can crush to black or grainy mud very fast without enough light (and all infor in your shadows lost) so you have to watch your lighting and exposure a bit more.
If you’re shooting HD, have a good video monitor with you, and if at ALL possible a waveform monitor so you can definitely SEE if you’ve gone too bright or too dark.
Good luck and happy shooting - hope this helps-
-Lew 
Intercutting the 16mm and HD may be a little hard to pull off. However, if you have a whole scene done in HD you may be able to cut next to a 16mm scene. It really depends on may factors.
I’ve worked on some shows where we cut HDCAM and 35mm (all in 1080 23.98p) and it matched very closely.
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