NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Built all A1 5/8 playlists, old playlists and forecasts removed from servers. Continued on with NoBudge50: Going Full Frontal, Schwag, Man on the Street DCP'd/ingested. Put The Rookie back on shipping reels and Help!!! on house reels. Tech'd reel one of Help, volume logged. Adventures of Prince Achmed DCP package downloaded/ingested to LMS. Cue sheets double-checked for the day. New 35mm letters up. Trees TVs reconnected, playing Plex just fine at the moment. 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: Inspected all of Virgin Suicides, in good condition, on house reels. - JC B******e Surfers screening and Q&A went smoothly. Mics/chairs broken down afterward. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Setup for Bingo night in Trees which went super well - so many people came up to me whilst cleaning up to say how much fun they had either doing bingo, watching the doc or The Rookie. Everything is back in the storage closet. - L  The Rookie screening was a lot of fun. Missed these late night screenings. Print is tails out in T1, which can get packed up tomorrow. Mics are back in the booth charging. - L Closed caption device back in the closet charging - L Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Finished downloading the NoBudge shorts, which are in a folder on the desktop. I DCP'd and ingested two of them: While I Wait , Lespri - L Outgoing/Shipping (content): Prin...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled a babies playlist of  Michael for Tuesday. Checked both playlists for tonight, they're good to go. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ran loops for The Rookie tonight. Cleaned the projectors as well. Chairs are on the stage in T2 for the Butthole Surfers Q&A tonight; I looked at the spots with the slide up on screen and added the proper settings to the ROS on the event memo. Tested the Spotify playlist through the Non-Sync input, too. This is all good to go. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Sheep Detectives ingested to LMS Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: I put Blue Velvet on house reels. Since this was just inspected and screened 3 times at Williamsburg we're OK to run it without reinspecting it. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: We received a backup IMS yesterday, which is si...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Alec worked a mid shift this afternoon/evening to assist with the events and ran the entirety of the Puddysticks screening in theater 4; I was in booth 1 for the duration of the Doc N Roll Festival screening which went very smoothly and whose Q&A was recorded for John Woods and guests Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): James handed off two posters from John Woods and/or Michael West for  Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat from Lauterbach's for the Doc N Roll event on 5/5 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Finished inspecting Uncut Gems  this evening Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Exit 8 , Hoppers , and Fantasy Life letters are down;  DWP 2 letters are up for tomorrow Posters updated?: DWP 2 ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Staff screenings have been sent out on 7shifts, scheduled on the LMS and blocked on the calendar. Please do not delete Mulholland Drive until after Friday's staff screening! Thanks!  Tomorrow we lose Fantasy Life and can send back the CRU drives. Both are in 4/6.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tech'd Devil Wears Prada , which sounds better at 6.0! Playlists updated.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Got the chairs and mics ready for Puddysticks in T4. Everything is ready to go - double checked the playlist. Spots remote is in the booth (4/6).  We had to make some last minute changes to Butthole Surfers in which they asked us to use the intro slide for preshow with a special spotify playlist, plus they sent their new music video for us to run before the show. The intro change and video addition has changed the timing little bit, which pushes things back a few minutes, but it's not hugely interfering with th...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Mulholland Drive  tech went fine save for the handful of last minute changes to volume and lighting cues, which in turn threw me off during the first performance but I recovered and got the appropriate spot/wash combo back up, as did the feature screening which started ten minutes behind schedule + broke down all gear for this event following the show and left it behind the curtains on stage in theater 2 Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Mortal Kombat II feature content was made available via Deluxe this evening Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Inspected reels 1-4 (of 8) of Uncut Gems in booth 1 and uploaded some stills to the shared drive Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked all cues and added timing for the Butthole Surf...