well, for 16mm film, a 400ft roll will last you 11 min
and if your edited film will be around 10 minutes, and
you have a 4:1 shooting ration, you will need 1600'
feet of film, but depeding on your ratio, your footage
and cost will go down.

400'= 11 min
1600'= 44 min is about the average amount of film you
will need to buy.

$.30 per foot is the cost for mostly any Kodak stock
from film emporium.com or rawstock.com, but the prices
go down with unopened or short ends.

1600' at .30 a foot will cost you around $500.
Processing will cost you around $300, depending on the
lab, but the cost of a transfer, i do not know. it
all depends on the lab cost of a transfer, and could
be up to $300 an hour, depending on the telecine
operator fee.

what kind of camera are you thinking of using?

does that help?

helps a lot

I guess I can stay below 1000 dollars with some student discounts

I will use 2 Cameras: a stupid CP sync camera for dialogue and a little Arriflex (non sync) for all moving shots where I need slow motion (up to 80 fps)

I posted this elswhere, and you can apply this figure as you see fit.

For 1hour of color 16mm film to be processed with a basic color correction (they find the opening shot from each scene, do a basic color correction, and you hope it matches the rest. Robert Rodriguez style) and to have that transfered to Mini DV tape will cost you $1,200. Now, what amount of that you use for your final all depends on how you shhoot. Hope this gets you a clearer picture of what your up against.
R. Michael

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