NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingest Mr. Nobody Against Putin and Revelations of Divine Love . Convert Snowy Bing Bongs to DCP. Build and schedule the Stranger By The Lake  and Super Mario Galaxy playlists when their preshows are downloaded/ingested. For tomorrow/Friday: They Will Kill You has a 2.20:1 aspect ratio in the standard flat container. -Nothing we haven't dealt with before, but we're going to have to reset masking presets as we adjusted them for Undertone's 2.12:1 aspect ratio. -I think we should just set the 2.20 masking presets (and Variable Ratio in 3 and 7) back to the true 2.20 and present Undertone (which is probably close to leaving us anyway) in this masking, so there will be some black on the sides for the remaining  Undertone shows. -I already set the Variable Ratio preset to 2.20 in T3 since I put the They Will Kill You staff screening in there tomorrow. Presentation Issues: Cleaning lights didn't go off at the start of the first presho...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled show playlists for Stand By Me (will need to be techd for credits timing) and Pieces of April  on 3/28 and 3/29 in addition to an infants show for The AI Doc  on 3/31 Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Brought down two chairs and checked spots for the event in 3 +  Dead Pigs  intro, screening, and Q&A this evening went smoothly Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked all cues/schedule for tomorrow and updated credits timing for Pieces of April this weekend Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: One sheets for a James Cameron directed Billie Eilish music doc titled Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) ...because of course it is...were delivered an...

We should be getting The Drama through Deluxe tonight, which the cinema team will we watching in Theater 3 tomorrow morning. Please prioritize ingesting this when it comes through. We've been asked to put "No Kings" up on the marquee for another march on Saturday. We'll coordinate, just putting this on your radar. To do this evening/ was completed: Two mics set in T3 for tonight. Went through all Matinee II shorts except for Bent, which we will be receiving a new DCP/file for. All looks and sounds good. Still waiting on They Will Kill You feature upload. Playlists/scheduling can happen after that. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Man Who Shot Liberty Valance return label attached and the print is on the cart. Pickup scheduled for tomorrow. Print/video Inspection: Teched End Gaged for the Thursday private even...

To do this evening/ was completed: Quiet night. Built almost all A1 3/27 playlists. Scheduled LMS for coming week. Cue sheets checked. Matinee II shorts transferred to T1 for tech tomorrow. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: This morning I changed the lamp in T6 since it was time. Cleaned the lamp house whilst it was vacant. New lamp is nice and bright, no issues. Swapped the power sources and ran many image tests in T4 for analog as per my discussion with Alec yesterday after going over the issues with Projector 2. I sent the rundown to Roger, Alec and Matthew. While everything is, at the moment, visually stable, there is still a bit of a mystery issue with Projector 2 that we need to weed out. We will keep you updated. - LH Ran house checks this morning in all theaters except 6 as Lillian was busy completing maintenance on its projector -WB Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Double checked the show playlist for  The Headless Woman in theater 4 for this evening's show and lowered the feature volume/added a house lights up cue -WB Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Just a fr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Ran into the same issue today that Alec experienced yesterday morning during The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as the power source to projector 2 in theater four was acting up. Halfway through the first reel of the print the bulb began to flicker violently, raising and lowering the brightness of the picture on screen quite quickly, causing a stir in the crowd as it was more noticeable than usual. Fortunately Alec was watching the film and graciously came up to the booth to assess the problem as I switched to the second reel. He tried disconnecting  and reconnecting a few things from the machine but nothing alleviated the issue of the lack of consistent amperage/voltage powering the bulb. Ultimately we ran the print off the functional projector after asking Wyatt to make an announcement to the guests and the show ran smoothly albeit with minor interruptions between each reel.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: The Headless Woman ...