NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Initially there was some confusion regarding the setup for the live band in theater 1 but Jack, John, and Lillian (who came in this afternoon to assist with setting up and monitoring the Morricone Youth's set) were able to figure out the wiring/mixer configuration and the  Night of the Living Dead  screening was a success;  Demons  screening in theater 1 went smoothly and all reels were left tails out for re-inspection tomorrow morning 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): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Yes Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Updated all first run playlists with the TIP_Jewel element. Built a playlist for All Dogs Go To Heaven, finished the preshow playlist for Real Women Have Curves. Removed old trailer packs and special events playlists from the TMS/servers. Ingested the updated HowToOrder_Horror element. Built preshow playlists for all upcoming 35mm shows 11/4-11/10--some volume and masking cues will need to be added-- Dangerously Close will need a unique holding slide. Also ingested the Amateur Hour preshow content. Presentation Issues: We ended up moving the round one Banshees show in T1 to T3--there were only 6-8 tickets sold at the time we moved it. We did this because the tech for Morricone Youth took much longer than anticipated due to an unfamiliarity with some of aspects of setting up the Berenger mixer. Things worked out eventually and the band feels good with the setup/mix. MOD had noted an issue with the playlist for Black Adam-- specifically that the lights ...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: One of the MODs brought it to my attention that the house lights were still too dark during the Black Adam credits even after the mid-credits scene had passed; I replaced the lights MID cue with a lights UP cue at the same timecode that Lillian had pushed it back to after the issue with the timing was first mentioned Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded and ingested new forecast content and added it to all upcoming OCAP and first run show playlists (the new how to order 'horror' content failed to ingest twice despite my downloading each of the two file types of every element that was uploaded -- reached out to Kat about fixing this on her end) Updated the Night of the Living Dead  show playlist and its corresponding cue sheet information and built and scheduled a pre-show for tomorrow evening's  Demons screening; I started building the pre-show for Real Women Have Curves in theater 4 but did not finish this in time be...

To do this evening/ was completed: Re-inspected the  Beetlejuice print--all good. Removed Coraline, Abbott and Costello, Beetlejuice and some other preshow content from TMS/servers. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Beetlejuice 35mm went very smoothly. Print is ready for shipping. 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): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Quickly teched all of the OCAP features before each auditorium opened--all good. Presentation Issues: About eight minutes before Desmond's intro for Beetlejuice, MOD walkied me to let me know the preshow in T5 was playing with no image. I checked VNC and saw an alert stating "unexpected light off". I turned the lamp back on, only for it to turn itself off again, so I shut down the projector and then struck the lamp once more. It was ok for a few minutes, but then it shut off again and it seemed like a lamp change was necessary. So the first round in T5 was canceled. Desmond's intro in T1 went smoothly, but after he concluded the audience still had to wait about five minutes for the feature to begin. After I finished the screening in T1, I met Lillian in the T5 booth and helped her as she installed a new lamp in the Christie. We were able to get the second round in T5 started, just in the knick of time. Thank you very much, Lillian, f...

To do this evening/ was completed: Removed Prey, Clockwork Orange and other feature content from the TMS. Also removed all NewFest shorts content, as well as all 10/21 first run playlists. Ingested the OCAP files for the features we'll be presenting with open captions this week: Aftersun, Black Adam, Banshees, Till and Woman King. Cue sheets and TMS have been properly updated. **TMS storage is at 100% capactiy. We could remove Bros, Barbarian and Don't Worry Darling feature content from TMS if necessary--I know we're holding on to them for the moment. I've yet to remove them, as I wanted to run this by everyone before getting rid of that content. **Special events preshows ( Abbott and Costello, Halloween, Beetlejuice) are 35 minutes long. On the cue sheets we have them listed as 40 minutes long. This has been updated. It seems SE playlists vary in length--if someone could remind me why that is I'd appreciate it. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built a p...

To do this evening/ was completed: Bit of a recap here! I had a super late night on Wednesday, trying to troubleshoot tech for a last minute staff meeting the next day, and prep for our general duties plus Shouting at the Screen. I had set up the wired mics in T2 the night before, but we wound up having to move them and set up again. For the staff meeting that was supposed to take place in T3, yesterday morning, I wound up having Jack switch it into T1 and talked him through the set up over the phone. I'll put this info in the Projectionist manual since it's similar to what we'd do for Spoons, but for live Zoom/Google Meet events you have to make sure that the settings (input/output) in either Zoom or Google Meet are comparable to your laptop settings. The input is always the laptop speakers and the output will be the theater speakers. In T2, should we ever do one in there, you would hook up the laptop directly to the Christie. In T1, we already have the Aja setup, so you w...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Had a bit of a bluetooth connectivity issue with the remote in theater 2 during the intro slideshow for the Shouting at the Screen event; fortunately the hosts bought us enough time to run the slideshow manually and the rest of the show went off without any other hiccups Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Shouting at the Screen DJ setup at Trees was broken down after the show concluded; all items used were returned to their respective storage spaces in 4/6 and by the mezzanine  Shouting at the Screen screening in theater 2 setup was broken down after the show; the speakers and their stands are behind the curtain and all XLR and power cables used were wound up and returned to 4/6 along with all mics and the mixer Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Re-inspected and packed up The Faculty in 4/6 and inspect...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hey all! We had a super fun screening of The Faculty tonight. It was a packed house!! I'm very pleased with how it went, though I did notice we'll have to deep clean the projectors. There's oil and dirt caked into area that folks aren't always told to clean, and there's a few smells that make it clear we've gotta sweep 'em. We will go over these things once the dust really and truly starts to settle a bit. That being said, it was truly a great evening and McKegg was very helpful with keeping a keen eye on the show with me, helping to rewind and inspect reels whilst I projected. Some information that might be useful that I told McKegg: Turn the rectifiers (breakers) on about 30 minutes prior to their start time, and strike the lamps about ten minutes before the start time. Heating everything up too quickly can be disastrous and puts stress on the machines/lamps when attempting to connect/ reach a certain level of brightness....

To do this evening/ was completed: Yes  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I downloaded, then converted the two preshow clips for Banshees of Inisherin  ( PS_FR_Banshees_5min and PS_Generic_Irish_15min) and ingested them to all theaters.  I built the playlist for Banshees of Inisherin .  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Trivia went great! Perfectly solid setup and breakdown.  A Clockwork Orange also went smoothly.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): I ingested the Bones and All Trailer into all Theaters.  Ordering/Receiving (content): I ingested the new Prey DCP into Theater 1 and should be ready for tomorrow's screening. Outgoing/Shipping (content):  Print/video Inspection: I inspected The Faculty print. It's in terrific shape with few splices. The major thing to note is that it's got the trailer for She's All That tacked on to the front of it. It's also in Open Matte, which is just something to keep an eye ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Teched the Prey DCP we made. It's a little too letterboxed, in my opinion, so I've made a new DCP, 1.85 this time, which will need to be locally ingested tonight and teched tomorrow morning. Downloaded and ingested  Scream Teens, Forecast A and Mubi trailer preshow content, as well as the Aftersun feature. Built 10/28 first run playlists, aside from Banshees . Banshees preshow content is still uploading to Drive so please download and ingest when it's ready. The 10/28 PG-13 trailer pack is the same as the 10/21 so I did not make a new pack. 10/21 can be renamed come Thursday. Cleared NewFest content from DCPII drive. Uploaded keys for Decision to Leave and Night of the Living Dead. Downloaded and ingested  Batman Forever  trailer, as well the ReconsiderThis_5min_Faculty. Built and scheduled new playlists for Coraline,   Beetlejuice and The Faculty. The latter two playlists feature thirty minutes of lights-up preshow content, then t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Keys for The Banshees of Inisherin ,  Coraline , and  Don't Worry Darling were downloaded and uploaded to the TMS Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I reached out to Kat about uploading the "Forecast_1028_A" content to the shared drive as we are still missing this from our upcoming show playlists Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: New Nightmare 35mm screening in theater 1 went very well this evening despite the jumps in volume throughout (the print has a Dolby SR soundtrack and initially I thought it was too quiet so I turned it up louder than normal and eventually had to bring it back down once the third act craziness started happening; the reels were extremely dusty and left quite a few flakes behind them so I cleaned the machines as thoroughly as possible before shutting these down for the night -- I also rewound each reel to their heads to expedite having to rewind them an extra time during re-inspection) Ordering/...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded Clockwork Orange  keys and teched the   playlist. The DCP is labeled as 1.66 but there's a slight pillarboxing when the film is projected with that lens file, so I switched to 1.85 with 1.66 masking and it fits perfectly. Also bumped the volume up to 7.5. It just wasn't loud enough at our usual 5-5.5 range. All good to go for tomorrow night.  Updated this week's cue sheets Mon-Thurs as we've moved Till to T3 and Decision to Leave to T2. TMS schedule is good to go but I'd recommend keeping these changes in mind if possible. Locally ingested Night of the Living Dead to T1. Built a show playlist for Abbot and Costello, masking and volume cues will be added when we tech. Forecast 10/28A still needs to be uploaded and ingested. Started the Banshees of Inisherin download. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (con...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hey y'all. I have some news, which is that our lovely and wonderful projectionist, Alec, will be out for the next two weeks as he recovers from his stint in the hospital. I have adjusted the schedule for the next two weeks (this week hasn't changed apart from Alec being taken off the schedule, and I think the week of 10/28 through 11/3 will be just fine the way it's been structured. No heavy changes, but let me know if you have any questions. In the meantime, let's send Alec some good energy. ⚘ Prospect   Friday 10/28 - Lillian admin, Jack close Saturday 10/29 - Lillian open, Jack close Sunday 10/30 - Lillian open, William close Monday 10/31 - Jack admin, William close Tuesday 11/1 - Jack admin, Mckegg close (admin later to support Mckegg) Wednesday 11/ 2 - Lillian/Jack admin, Mckegg close (one admin later to support Mckegg) Thursday 11/3 - Lillian admin, William close Further notes from this evening and some updates below.  Abbott ...

To do this evening/ was completed: NewFest rep came by to pick up a backup drive from MOD. Put up letters for Decision to Leave. Removed Coraline, Three Tidy Tigers, BICMM, Birdcage and Wendell and Wild  and 10/14 playlist content from TMS. Locally ingested Abbott and Costello to T3. Built a playlist for Clockwork Orange-- will tech tomorrow morning. Inspected reels one and five of Demons. Overall decent condition, moderate base scratching. Reel five looks rather pink. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Reached out to Desmond about The Faculty collectors print, should be here by Tuesday EOD, possibly earlier. Tight turnover for this one but should be fine. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lig...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Devotion and A Man Called Otto one sheets were delivered and stored in the poster cubby behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Organized the 'current' content in the 4/6 booth and labeled all DCP drives (there is an extra  Till DCP and NewFest content that can be shipped back this week) Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Removed NewFest dates and letters from the bottom row Posters updated?: Took down the NewFest posters in the lobby (these are stored on top of the work bench behind 3/7) and put up She Said and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever  posters under 'coming soon' snipes Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Behind 3/7 for the week...

To do/ was completed: Wow...what a time we've had! A lot has happened and I'm so proud of us for pulling through. NewFest ended today. Well done, everyone. I'm really happy about how today went, and I'm excited to get back into the swing of our usual happenings. I was in early to finish setups for Trees Lounge, T3, T1, and T2. All NewFest shows went really well. I have a couple of updates below! Thank you, Jack, for being a huge help today.  Please, everyone, continue to check the blog to see what needs to be done so we can stay ahead of things!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: As per Matthew's email, we've swapped out Till with Decision to Leave in T2 for this upcoming Monday. I scheduled it in T2, but please keep an eye on these as you might have to play them manually. I am almost certain the TMS might not automate them since it typically doesn't recognize anything that has less than two minutes between shows. The same will go for the 7pm sho...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded and ingested the Generic_V9 preshow element and created/updated all 10/21 playlists. Rescheduled the week with new playlists--the week had been scheduled with 10/14 playlists. Updated/finished the cue sheet. Removed Amsterdam content from TMS. Locally ingested Clockwork Orange to T1. Built a preshow playlist for New Nightmare-- might require slight tweaking. Updated the Coraline playlist, as the majority of the preshow content comes after lights down. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received DCPs for Clockwork Orange, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and a new DCP for Till labeled as "final package". Will reach out about this to see if a new ingest is necessary. Also received the print for Demons --inspection will start soon. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingested Prey feature content for the staff appreciation screening in addition to " Liquor Law PSA" (this file was in the form of a feature for some reason) and the upcoming week's forecast content Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added "shutdown" cues to the schedule (through Wednesday) on the TMS; also scheduled Black Adam and Decision to Leave staff screenings for tomorrow morning  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Mad as Hell  and Sexual Healing  shorts programs for NewFest went over very smoothly in theaters 3 and 2 (Desmond was on site throughout the evening to setup for and keep the two Q&As to their scheduled times); I left the mics setup in T3 beneath the curtain for another NewFest shorts program scheduled in this room Saturday morning and kept the wired mic setup behind the curtain in T2 but brought the wireless ones back up to the booth to charge Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers...

To do this evening/ was completed: Finished setting up for this evening's NewFest screenings. Had some productive meetings with Desmond and Matthew about Monday's situation and how to move forward with grace, clarity, and rearranged our schedule a bit for this weekend. As you all know now, Alec is unfortunately very unwell and will be out for a minimum of 3 to 4 days. We already have admin coverage for most of his shifts Jack and I have a lot of admin days, but I'll be covering the ones we don't have two people scheduled for. I will be on Saturday morning, Will takes the evening and I'll take his Sunday shift. The schedule has been adjusted. I will be tech'ing the new  NewClass  playlist with Kim, Matthew, and Desmond, on Friday.  Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made sure all new KDMs were downloaded and ingested for  Don't Worry Darling, Bros, Triangle of Sadness, Coraline, Black Adam and Barbarian, Till.  Kat sent over content info for 10/28...

To do this evening/ was completed: Yes Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built the playlist for Decision to Leave . The only preshow clip mentioned in the Trailer list that I could not find on the server or on the Drive was  PS_Generic_v9_25min, which I could not find no matter where I looked. The Generic_V8_40 was about 5 minutes too long, so I combined two generic clips that equaled 10 minutes instead. If someone manages to dig that other Preshow clip, by all means please do! Lillian and I converted the  PS_Generic_Korean_15min  and  PS_Generic_DecisiontoLeave_5min preshow clips in DCPoMatic because the original files weren't ingesting properly and ingested them into the server.     Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Before I Change My Mind in Theater 3 went smoothly from intro into feature and then feature into Q+A. Everything there has been broken down and put in its place.  Unidentified Objects was little trickier. We...

To do this evening/ was completed: Yes, a busy night, but in a good way!  Presentation Issues: Slight hiccup when Bros played in Theater 1 after Wendall and Wild , I forgot to switch the sound back to D Cinema from the mics. Thankfully, an MOD pointed this out during the preshow and it was quickly corrected.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Birdcage Film Feast went great! Transition from the intro into the main event was smooth and everything's been broken down and put in its place.  The NewFest screening of Wendall and Wild went equally as good. Intro was solid, Gabe from D Media was in Theater 1 booth the whole time and thankfully nothing went wrong throughout. The feature played beautifully. The Q+A also went well. All mics, mixers, stands, chairs, etc are all back.  And, on top of all that, we also had a quick trivia night! That also went perfectly and everything, once again, is shut down and put in their respective pla...

To do this evening/ was completed: Went through an extensive tech this morning with Desmond, Gabe from D Media, and some NewFest reps/coordinators. We teched the Wendell and Wild playlist, which is all good to go. However, the feature itself was providing a little bit of difficulty, as some people felt they couldn't really hear any of the mix coming from the side speakers. I was seeing sound from the side surrounds on the circular display on the CP750, which we initially mistook to be the rears. Initially I was unable to access the Dolby app via the T6 PC, so Gabe connected to our server with an ethernet cable and we switched the Decode Mode from 7.1 Surround to 5.1 Discrete, which resolved the issue--the mix sounds good now, (however Alec will be able to shed some more light on the difference between the two settings when used in our auditoriums. In short the 5.1 discrete will give you sound from all seven speakers when you're running a 5.1 mix. The 7.1 Surround will play a 5....

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: There were many issues with this evening's scheduled New Class shorts program for NewFest but of all that caused us trouble it was Netflix and its NewFest constituents wanting to complete a full tech run before the show was meant to start. They arrived shortly after 5:30PM to begin this, but not even this two hour block was enough time to properly go through each short (there was a lot of pausing, rewinding, forwarding, and adjusting volume levels for each film, all of which had already been done in advance -- we made them aware of this -- and added to the show playlist that was built specifically for this event) before the doors were meant to open. Once Lillian and I ran into the issue with a short about halfway through the show playlist (it kept looping back to the start and would not allow us to advance the automation to the next film) we were delayed further and this was exacerbated by the NewFest people insisting that we ...

Might as well post an NPP blog today. To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: The New Class program ended up having lots of issues. Lillian can give more details than I can but by the time I arrived she was speaking to the festival people about the possibility of doing the playlist manually, but also being worried about continuing to have issues with one particular short. When she tried playing this short in the playlist, it wouldn’t play and the playlist skipped back to the previous short. It seemed that after hard rebooting the projector/server (I suggested this over the phone), the playlist worked fine, as when I got to the computer tried running the playlist, there were no issues. By the time we figured out the playlist would work, the festival director had decided to cancel all of the content and just do the panel, despite us saying the playlist would work. There will definitely be more details on this.  Earlier in the day, the Theater 4 Christie was showing up...

To do this evening/was completed: Presentation Issues: The wrong show playlist was scheduled for the last round in theater 4 so instead of  Barbarian starting at 10:15  Bros  began playing   in its place; the server working this round alerted me to this as the feature was beginning and I promptly ejected Bros , brought the house lights up, manually loaded and played a Barbarian CPL after about a minute's delay, then brought the house lights down for the duration of the show (I stayed to manually bring up house lights during credits and scheduled an 'end of day' cue) 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): I checked tomorrow's cue sheets to avoid any further scheduling and/or content playback issues and all the show...

To do this evening/ was completed: NewFest events went smoothly today. Returned mic and mixer to 4/6. T1 PC internet is back. One note: about halfway through post-screening Q&As, hosts want the audience award QR code slide to come on screen. Currently we have a Mute cue attached to this slide. I've removed it from upcoming playlists. Removed Wallace and Gromit content from TMS. 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): Marquee updated?: Took down Wallace and Gromit letters. Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: The penultimate round in theater 2 did not start as scheduled but I was anticipating the server pausing itself and was able to avoid any delays to the pre-show Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Jack helped me move the turntable case at Trees back to its storage space in the mezzanine closet; all wires used were brought back up to and stored in 4/6 Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Additional one sheets for Black Adam and Wakanda Forever were delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Added NewFest dates to the bottom row Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Behind 3/7 for the weekend Additional Notes: 

To do this evening/ was completed: Ran through a tech in T1 with Desmond before the Brooklyn Brunch program began. The program itself went smoothly. Mics have been returned to T1. One thing to note: at the moment the T1 booth PC cannot connect to the internet, so we ended up running sound for the preshow off of Desmond's laptop. I'm looking into reconnecting at the moment. Set up three mics and the Yamaha mixer in T3, that shorts program went very smoothly as well. Left one mic and the mixer beneath the screen for tomorrow's intro.  Presentation Issues: Not an issue during the screening, but I was unable to switch to NonSync on the TMS quick controls in T3. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Set up the turntable in Trees, all good. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I made some tweaks to a few NewFest playlists: Added masking cues to Brooklyn Brunch, Experiments on Existence, and All the World's a Stage. The New Class also needed some more adjustments. Following the first short in the program, which is scope, there was the 1.85 Lens/Masking change pack and then a cue to switch the masking to 1.78 for the following short. Instead of this I just added a bit of black between the shorts with cues to switch the projector lens to 1.85 and the masking to 1.78. I also removed the 2:1 masking cue from the third short (Mercury Afrograde), since masking this would require a lens change. I added the lens/masking change pack for this one, the 1.85 pack for the following short and slides/clips. I also adjusted the Q&A section of the playlist. I added cues to bring the lights down and switch sound to DCP for the "Yearbook" video after the first Q&A, I'm assu...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: There was no volume noted for the City of the Living Dead  print so I had to bring this down considerably during the first reel (the mix would go from being deafeningly loud to nearly a whisper in the same scene -- I ended up playing the film at 4.5 for its duration); there were also multiple sets of motor and changeover cues on the tails of every reel and my changeovers suffered because of this (I was either a second or two ahead by rushing the changeover to prevent letting the previous reel cut to black before I could switch or a few numbers behind on the countdown on the successive reel -- I'm certain these countdowns didn't actually align with the cues in any way but thankfully none of the guests complained as the entire film was terribly scratched and often dipped in and out of focus/would shake from the countless splices and surface damage)  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: HorrorF...

To do this evening/ was completed: Lots of building today. HOLY moly does it feel great to have these done. Once everything was built, I spent most of today double checking volume and run of show. I will be in Connecticut until Sunday evening, so good luck with the opening of NewFest!  Playlists for NewFest that are now complete:  The Birdcage - Feature (See important note in Preshow Clips/Playlist) Mad As Hell - shorts Sexual Healing  - shorts A Very Trans Time  - shorts Episodic Showcase  - shorts Before I Change My Mind - Feature (I made sure that the file we're showing is CCAP) Unidentified Objects - Feature The New Class  - shorts -- Desmond has requested that we make sure the drop time on the cue sheet for this programme is right after the first Q&A.  Additional playlists created: Black Adam  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: The KDM for Birdcage on 10/17! Please QC once it's live. It should be flat, 1.85, but we'll need to ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Brooklyn Horror Fest kicked off today in T2. It went super well. Huge crowd for Nocebo this evening, which was really lovely to see. The Spotify playlist was great and the transition from Non Synch to D1 was fine. We started a little late since a gentleman who needed wheelchair access showed up when we already had folks in the removable seats. He preferred to sit in one of ours instead. So I know we have our ADA seats listed on our website that patrons can chose when buying tickets, and I understand that patrons can purchase those tickets even if they don't require ADA. Since it is never, ever the fault of a patron with a disability for having us stall a show, might it be more sensible for us to have a feature on the website that, when you go to confirm a purchase (after choosing an ADA seat), it will ask you to confirm whether or not you specifically require ADA access? That way we would know for sure, can plan in advance and patrons can still b...

To do this evening/ was completed: Teched full Nocebo playlist and Spotify preshow music--good to go. Added finishing touches to the coming week's cue sheets. Inspected the last two reels of Beetlejuice and filled out the remaining inspection info--soundtrack, end credits, other details. Put up more letters for NewFest on the marquee. Made a DCP for the The New Class preshow, which will only play before that specific shorts program. Ingested to T1. Uploaded keys for Wallace and Gromit-- please 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: Received two bags of six inch q-tips, residing in 4/6. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Yes Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Yes, NewFest timing with cue sheets needs to be adjusted.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Automation scheduled through the week apart from a few NewFest playlists that haven't been built ( Before I Change My Mind, Unidentified Objects, Shorts: Mad as Hell and Shorts: Sexual Healing ), The Birdcage, Black Adam, and Till Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up:  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The Birdcage finished ingesting and I brought the drive back up to the office.  Outgoing/Shipping (content):  Print/video Inspection: I looked at the first three reels of Beetlejuice. So far the print is in excellent condition.  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes  Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): I did the majority of the cue sheets for next week (10/14-10/20). The only timing I did not get to was the Black Adam and Till  end cr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Piggy  screening in theater 2 went well (Caryn Coleman and a guest filmmaker made brief introductions before the short/feature content started); I had to discreetly adjust the masking at the start of the short to better fit the 1.33:1 image but aside from that the show ran without any issues Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: I ran the rest of reel 2 of  Gates of Hell through the projector in theater 1 and rewound the reel back to its head, placed it back on the shelf with the rest of the film, and cleaned the projector before powering down the machine   Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Posters outside the auditorium doors were changed to reflect tomor...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Our early morning Real Estate rental event went just fine (in T1). Downloaded and made a DCP of the updated NewFest loop that Kim sent over this morning. I sent out an email about this, but I'll reference it here again: the new file is UpdatedNewFest_XSN. I built the Wendell & Wild playlist. Checked Triangle of Sadness and it looks and sounds great.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: QC'd with Desmond and Rachel for preshow materials in T1&3. Adjusted the playlists we built with the proper volumes attached. I made a separate tab for trailer/ad volumes on the DCP x tracking sheet for NewFest, and it's under Trailers/Ads. The volume for T1's content is also applicable for T2, should any feature/shorts programme need a trailer from the T1 volume list (they're similarly sized theatres).   In an ideal world, the mixes for most of these would be comparable and we'd only need a set volume for preshow content, but...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded preshow for Triangle of Sadness and built the playlist. I know there's a lot going on with NewFest and everything, but this opens tomorrow. It should have been built before today. Feature cs n be QC’d tomorrow as well. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: All first run and Wallace & Gromit playlists are ready to be scheduled. Cue sheets can be started tomorrow, too. Converted and ingested all NewFest slides and trailers. Downloaded Dwayne Johnson preshow clip for Black Adam and Decision to Leave trailer for next week’s trailer packs. Built playlists for the first five NewFest screenings: Brooklyn Brunch, Experiments on Existence, All the World’s a Stage, Three Tidy Tigers , and Vulveeta . These should be good to use for the screenings. I let Joe know we need the drive Brooklyn Horror Festival sent them for the opening night screening at Prospect. It has their preshow, ads, and transitionals. Once it is brought to NPP, ple...

To do this evening/ was completed: Teched Nocebo in T2. Picture and sound are good to go but the masking is a little ambiguous. The picture looks best in the 1.66 macro, it's pillarboxed and keystoned a bit in 1.78 and 1.85. However, the 1.66 masking results in significant bleed on the side curtains, so we'll have to tech further. Credits have been noted. Was unable to tech Triangle of Sadness in T3 as the keys don't become active until tomorrow. They will then expire Thursday at midnight so we'll need to ingest a new set of KDMs. Removed Cabin in the Woods content from TMS/T1. Set up mic and mixer in T4 for Candyman tonight. Downloaded and ingested Queer New Class slides and teaser videos that were passed along by Desmond today. Ingested to T1. For the slides, I added a two second fade in and fade out when making the DCPs but in the preview window the fade in did not seem to last a full two seconds. In my opinion this is no issue, because there still is a fade in. Also...

To do this evening/ was completed: Jack asked that I try to troubleshoot an ingest issue he was having with a NewFest short titled My Trip to Spain ; I attempted to re-ingest it to the TMS (Jack had tried to ingest it locally to theater 3 which was unsuccessful) but unfortunately this failed so I re-downloaded all the individual DCP file elements from the shared Google drive into a new folder on the DCPII hard drive and attempted another ingest (update: this re-ingest attempt also failed - I communicated with Lillian about it and she said she would take a look at it no later than Wednesday) Presentation Issues: Penultimate round in theater 2 ( Amsterdam @ 7:15PM) did not begin as scheduled and was delayed by about 5 minutes after a manual start Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled a Candyman pre-show playlist for tomorrow's screening in theater 4 with the custom "ABC" content; the print did not have a volume listed and will need a volume cue added to its pre-show p...

To do this evening/ was completed: Teched Cabin in the Woods playlist--added start credit time to the cue sheet and added lights up cue to the playlist--all good to go. Downloaded and ingested all shorts in the NewFest Episodic Showcase program to T3 aside from My Trip to Spain, that ingest failed--looking into making a new DCP for it. Four of the five shorts in their respective Google Drive folders were labeled with their titles only. Subsequently they've been ingested with just their titles. I figure we can just make note of their aspect ratios during tech for reference during the festival but if it's preferred that the content features the full technical listing (ex: SHR_1_178 etc etc) then maybe a second ingest will be necessary. Tracking sheet updated. Re-inspected Time and Tide and scheduled a pickup with Sony tomorrow. Noticed there were four splices in reel six, instead of the two listed on the inspection sheet. Just making note of it here. Measured the width and height...