NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Print pics for the two prints below have been added to the drive this evening for Conrad!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: As per my usual Saturday protocol, I went through the new content list and checked all the playlists.  Updated the sheet as the playlists for One Eyed Jacks/ Pomp have been built, though I'll be running through Pomp again on Monday.  Built new SE playlists for the week of 9/06, but we'll need to QC a few. Other playlists we're waiting on content and some other information for.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Donnie Darko is still unzipping in T1. Will be done by the morning and can get copied over to the DCPIII drive for ingest.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Finished inspecting One Eyed Jacks and inspected all of Poltergeist 3 . Print is in great condition!  Asset tracking doc u...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Deleted last week's first run playlists and out of date SEs Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Raised The Mummy to 5.5 and updated the cue in the playlist. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Cleared a lot of content off servers: some features but mostly old preshows and trailers. Reinspected and packed up Lady in the Water . It's on the cart and a pickup is scheduled for Tuesday (this is the soonest available date since Monday is a holiday). Print/video Inspection: Continued inspecting One-Eyed Jacks . Got through reel 6 so just one reel left. These subsequent reels have much less damage than the first two, though still a healthy amount of splices and sprocket repairs. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Ordered more Kimtech wipes. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Spent the majority of the evening building out first run show playlists for the week of 9/6 ( His Three Daughters needs to be tech'd for credit start time + have light cues added) Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Jess emailed about swapping theaters for Afraid this weekend so it should be noted that Blink Twice and Alien: Romulus are in theater 1 for the final rounds of the night and Afraid will end the night in theater three (note: the first of these last two rounds in 3 will need to be started manually as there is an overlap during the credits from the previous one -- please note the gap on the schedule tab) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): The Substance poster was received and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded and ingested Beetlejuice  Beetlejuice  pre-show content in addition to other generic content for the 9/6 show playlists Ingested  Jailh...

To do this evening/ was completed: Well, folks, the verdict is just about in-- bad allergic reaction to Shiitake mushrooms, promoting extreme nausea and a slight, unpleasant rash that I did not notice until now. At least I'm not contagious?  For tonight: please build the A1 playlists, and any SE that you can. Content update below.  FYI - I believe the 6:15 show of Blink Twice will need a closed captioning device. Jared will call again about the seat number.  Presentation Issues: Not an issue (just unfortunate) but you'll notice first round in T1 is red and that's because we turned it off due to lack of tickets.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tech'd The Mummy and Where the Wild Things Are . Only adjusted the playlists a bit.  Built the playlists for Pomp and Circumstance , One Eyed Jacks  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Donnie Darko was making the 4/6 computer lag, so I started downloading it to the T1 comp. The other DCP from AGFA, Jailhouse , is be...

To do this evening/ was completed: Despite still feeling like Death Becomes Her, the screening of Lady in the Water went very well and it was so fun to see some familiar faces in the audience. ⁕ Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: John forwarded the links from AGFA, so I started downloading Donnie Darko in 4/6 and Jailhouse 41 in T1 Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested Beetlejuice 2 , The Front Room, and  My Old Ass .  Checked the TMS for any KDMs missing - ingested new keys for almost every feature.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: I'll finish inspection of One Eyed Jacks tomorrow, and, depending on how badly damaged it is, we'll make a decision with what to do tomorrow.  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?:  Maintenance/cleaning: Got the invoice for the new felt pads. Sent this to Bogi for bookkeeping. I'll change what needs to be change...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Afraid playlist is good to go. Added lights up cues to The Mummy and Where the Wild Things Are and updated cue sheets. (Latter two still need to be checked for volume) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Projectors cleaned and loops run for Lady in the Water tonight. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): More Moana 2 posters plus Snow White . Ordering/Receiving (content): One-Eyed Jacks print. Mummy keys in and uploaded. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Scheduled a pickup for Detroit Rock City for tonight. Print/video Inspection: Started inspecting One-Eyed Jacks . Quite a bit of damage on this one, there were several feet towards the beginning of reel 1 where about every fourth sprocket was torn which I had to repair, plus a few other sprocket tears throughout which needed repair. Quite a few splices and tears here and there, too. And quite scratched. But obviously great color. Only got t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Went through the upcoming week in the TMS and rescheduled everything listed in Matthew's updated PDF. Re-did the cue sheets as well and finished out the week. Would appreciate someone double-checking tomorrow just to be on the safe side. Went through all the Cheerleader content, feature tech'd, dance numbers tech'd etc. Updated volume and practiced a few transitions with the lightboard. The show went smoothly, with the slight exception of the breakdown slide DCP going black with no audio halfway through its runtime. Not sure why that happened but it was certainly the DCP and no other type of technical glitch. Mics returned to the booth. While testing lights in T2 booth I noticed a good bit of water on the ground. This was around 3:30. I mopped it up and made sure all of our electronics were dry, then brought a trash can to catch the stream. It's a pretty good leak so I'm glad I caught it early. MOD shut down the unit after the last...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: T6 went down again this evening and caused the feature to start in the wrong lens macro (it was scope inside the flat macro so the image was letter and pillar boxed). MODs radioed and I switched it to the appropriate setting. Fortunatately only a couple of minutes had elapsed. I brought the house lights up manually at the start of the credits and performed a hard reboot to reset the server -Will Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added the But I'm a Cheerleader show playlist in theater 2 tomorrow as it was missing from the schedule on the TMS -Will Trailer Updates: Updated the PG-13 trailer pack with the Transformers One trailer. -Alec Special Events/ AV set up:  Between the Temples screening and Q&A went smoothly. Recording uploaded to Google drive. -Alec Summer of Sam  screening and intro/Q&A was a success. I recorded some of the Q&A to the desktop in booth 1. Chairs and microphones were returned to storage after the...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingested AfrAId feature and built 8/30 playlists for it. Made a playlist for 8/31 Cat Video Fest shows. Scheduled the coming week in the TMS and continued working on cue sheets. *Looks like the AfrAId showtimes will have to be updated due to updated schedule.* Ran loops in T1 and cleaned the projectors for tonight's show. Playlist double-checked. Added the Class of '99 trailer to the playlist right before the intro per Desmond's request. 4.0 volume and lights at MID. Lights MID for intro as well. Double-checked intro and Q&A slides, those are all set. *Double spot lights to right of screen for intro, double spotlights centered for Q&A, wrote that down on a note right next to P2 for reference.* Alec added some oil to P2 intermittent sprocket, seems it was time for it. I was starting to hear ratcheting-like noises from that area of the projector. Checked mics in T3 for the Temples Q&A. Sounds good at 7.5 on the processor. *Borrow...

To do this evening/ was completed: The print of Detroit Rock City went very well. Super, super fun show to project. It's a bit of a mystery as to why the info on the inspection report for the first reel was missing, but the reel 1 had no issue and all the same cue info as the rest of the reels. I had time after to re-inspect the print and get it packaged up for shipping tomorrow, so please just print out some labels and schedule a pickup. Thanks! Presentation Issues: No dowser strangeness this evening. Caught up with info on it.  Preshow Clips/Playlist:  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Matthew sent over the film schedule this evening and I got the new cue sheets up and running. The first four days are almost finished, sans the new first run, Afraid , which we have yet to receive by satellite, and a few special events' info.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Need labels for Detroit Rock Cit...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ran house checks throughout the building (except in theater 2 since the construction crew was working) and everything looks/sounds and fine is functioning normally - WB Election print was picked up and Welcome to the Dollhouse was dropped off. Print has been inspected. Stills uploaded to Drive, Conrad notified. Posters arrived for Saturday Night and Kraven the Hunter. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built an SPL for Where the Wild Things Are Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ran loops and cleaned the projectors in booth 1 for the screening of  Detroit Rock City this evening -WB Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded and converted/ingested the intro slide for One Eyed Jacks  sent over by Desmond -WB Began downloading the NoBudge#41 short film files from the shared drive to the Preshows & Trailers hard drive in 4/6 (these can be moved accordingly but for now there are thr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made a babies playlist for It Ends With Us and scheduled it for Tuesday. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Election screening went well again today. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Cleared some old playlists and content from the servers. Print/video Inspection: Reinspected and packed up Election . Filed the report into the August 2024 folder. Pickup is scheduled for tomorrow and it's on the cart. Just noting that this print was a fair bit more scratched than what was indicated on the pre-screening inspection report, especially on the base side. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Took down the rental and put 35mm titles back up. Updated the brunch titles as well. Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entra...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Some Like It Hot is 1.85 but had the 1.37 lens/masking change pack in the playlist. I removed it before the show started and teched the feature. Brought the volume up to 6.3 in the playlist. Election went well. Print is rewound and ready for tomorrow. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Put the rest of Summer of Sam on house reels. Started inspecting Madam Satan , got through four reels. It's in decent shape but has it's fair share of splices and (repaired) torn sprockets. Putting these tails out on the shipping reels. 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: Presentation Issues: T6 went offline just before the credits rolled at the end of the first round; MODs were alerted that a hard reboot would be necessary to reset the system and, after about ten minutes, the SPLs were visible and the TMS and server were in communication with one another again Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Between the Temples , His Three Daughters , and  A Different Man posters were delivered and stored behind 3/7  Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Finished inspecting  The Funhouse  and completed its inspection report Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked cues and cross referenced the TMS + adjusted the start time of the first round SPL in theater 6 tomorrow and Sunday Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Clean...

To do this evening/ was completed: For tonight - The rest of Madam Satan can get inspected, plus the rest of Fun House . Thanks!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built all new A1 playlists.  *Built the playlist for But I'm A Cheerleader , but I'll  need to go through this with Desmond again to make some last adjustments.  Trailer Updates:  Special Events/ AV set up: Ran the screener of Flow, in T4, for John and Cristina this morning.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and ingested new content from Kat for 8/30.  Ingested Where The Wild Things Are Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Ran Detroit Rock City for Cristina. Volume noted on its white card.  Ran Election and Summer of Sam for Desmond. Volume noted on their white cards.  Started puttig  Summer of Sam onto house reels - can get finished tonight once all the rest of the 35mm stuff is done.  FYI...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hello- friendly reminder that we're going remote this evening. Please text me at 312-730-5604 if managers need anything this evening. - L Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tech'd Blink Twice and all the content in the playlist. Everything is ready to go. Trigger warning in all BT playlists. L Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: DCP'd the two shorts for Pomp n Circumstance .  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Reached out to John and Jeffrey for Between the Temples one sheets. They'll be here tomorrow. Ordering/Receiving (content): Received the print of Madam Satan . The Funhouse arrived as well. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Reinspected Princess Mononoke - golly, that's a long print. Getting picked up this evening. - L Begain inspecting The Funhouse . Got through the first two reels, looks to be in good shape. I actually watched this very print at MoMA a few days ago and it pl...

To do this evening/ was completed: Pomp and Circumstance ingested to T3. Inspected all of Election. It's in good condition. Resting on house reels. Princess Mononoke went very smoothly. Print has been rewound, ready for re-inspection. **I did notice a sound coming from the intermittent sprocket area on P2 when threading the later reels. Can't describe it exactly but when advancing the film with the flywheel I'd hear this odd clicking, that would only occur when film was threaded.** Just wanted to mention it. 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: Ingested a load of KDMs. Note: Blink Twice will open up tomorrow, KDM for Some Like It Hot will open up Friday. Had our cinema meeting today and, as noted in the weekly update, we've got everything apart from Election (which should be coming in this evening and can get inspected) and the DCP of But I'm A Cheerleader . (update on cheerleader below!) **Weekly projection update is out! Please get your eyes on it. More film happening this week. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Also, staff screenings have been emailed out, scheduled on the TMS and blocked on the calendar.  - L Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: FYI We received a trigger warning title card for Blink Twice , which I added to the playlists. We're to received one as a DCP by satellite tonight, but I already DCP'd the title card and made it 30 seconds long instead of their 18 seconds slide, since that's not enough time to read the whole thing (at l...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: McKegg set up for trivia at Trees Lounge this evening and I broke everything down and returned all gear to the A/V closet after it ended +  Superstar screening in theater 1 this evening went well (thoroughly cleaned the projectors after the show as the print was shedding quite a bit) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Re-inspected Superstar after the show and readied it for return shipping (the print came with return labels and these have been attached; a pickup can be scheduled tomorow) 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: 8/23 cue sheets built. Between the Temples feature ingested, playlists built and scheduled.  The Mummy ingested to TMS. We received tracking for Election, should be here by tomorrow 8/21. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ran loops of the Superstar show tonight in Theater 1. I don't think this ever got teched so check the volume when the movie starts. I put a 7.5 cue for the CP750 in the playlist. -Alec Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Teched Karate Killers with Cristina. Despite being quite purple it looks OK. It's indeed the English dub. I timed the length of the first reel and it's about 23 minutes. The other three are pretty much the exact same length which makes about 92 minutes for the total run time. -Alec Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: The right side surr...

To do this evening/ was completed: TMS scheduled for the coming week with the exception of Between the Temples, waiting on that DCP upload. Started building cue sheets for the next week. Adrian ( Pomp and Circumstance) did not come by today to drop off his content. Summer of Sam arrived, which Will inspected. Stills uploaded. Substance and Reeks trailers added to 8/23 trailer packs. Election print hasn't arrived yet. Reached out to programming for tracking. 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: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made all the SE playlists for the week of 8/23, apart from But I'm a Cheerleader . Jack made the intro and outro slides, I made all the music DCPs for the performances (we might have to redo the last last if the curtain call song is the music we were provided with today, and just attach the music to the slide. Easy fix. We're waiting on one song, but everything else is good to go. L Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Reached out to a few folks for DCP drop offs. We might have someone come by today (Adrian) or tomorrow. - L Received the KDM for La Llorna (which will be good for awhile starting second week of October!)- L Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received the trailers from Kat - uploaded Substance/ reeks like teen spirit teaser (no proper link yet) L Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Put  The Limey  up on screen in theater...

To do this evening/ was completed: Much busier here during the final rounds. Close captioning device is back in Juan's closet.  Presentation Issues: Not a presentation issue, but I kept an eye on T5 and noticed that when the shutdown procedures started (on the tms), the christie registered the lamp turning off as a critical warning "unexpected light of," despite the fact that this is completely normal. Good information for us at least.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked all playlists for this upcoming week. Made sure the Cameron Post playlist looks good for tomorrow.  Deleted content/playlists from the TMS that we no longer need.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: La Llorna is still opening on the desktop. There's a chance I might have to redownload it again....stay tuned. This isn't for a little while.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested new KDMs. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspectio...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: No issues, Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded and ingested the Blink Twice preshow clips and made those playlists. Reminder that we're still in need of the Reeks Like Teen Spirit trailer (getting uploaded tomorrow) and The Substance trailer. I asked Kat if there's something we should use in place of The Substance since there's no trailer for that on the latest TrailMix. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Miseducation of Cameron Post screening and Q&A went smoothly. Recording uploaded to Google drive. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Extracted and ingested the La Llorona DCP. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Updated the brunch titles. Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additio...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: There was an "unexpected light off" warning in Theater 5 at the start of the second preshow of the day. The first round in 5 had no tickets sold so I'd stopped playback and shut the lamp off, so this happened right after the lamp struck at the beginning of the second playlist. Paul radioed me that there was no picture on screen when preshow started. I re-struck the lamp and there were no issues after that. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Appropriate Behavior screening, intro, and Q&A went fantastically. The Q&A recording has been uploaded to the drive. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The can we got from AGFA yesterday is actually the print for Sundays on Fire next month, Karate Killers on Wheels . It has Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! written in sharpie directly on the can but it's labeled Killers on Wheels 1 of 1 with tape. ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded and ingested 8/23 forecasts, plus McNaughton and Poltergeist III  trailers. 8/23 A1 playlists built. **The 8/23 PG-13 and R rated trailer packs are missing the Reeks Like Teen Spirit and The Substance trailers respectively, as they've yet to be uploaded. They'll be put in once we have them.** Now Showing Snipe for Cuckoo and My Penguin Friend. South Park tech'd, volume logged. Ran reel one of Mononoke and Cardcaptor (in T1 instead of 2 due to the ongoing construction) for Desmond, volumes logged (6.0 for Cardcaptor) . Summer of Sam was on the tech calendar as well, but the print is not here yet. Cameron Post lights up added to the playlist. Lady in the Water slide ingested. T1 and T4 35mm 1.85 lenses cleaned. At least one can of Superstar arrived. As well as Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill, which I don't see listed on the events calendar. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ord...

To do this evening/ was completed: South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut  should be teched tomorrow during admin.  Miseducation of Cameron Post  also needs the credit lights cue added to the playlist. Presentation Issues: We lost a show (the last round) in Theater 3 because the dowser broke and was stuck in its closed position, like what happened in Theater 4 last year. Daniella told me there was sound but no picture when the preshow started. The lamp was clearly on, so when closing/opening the dowser on the touch screen and switching between channels did nothing I figured the actual dowser mechanism was broken. I let MODs know I would need to open the projector up and wouldn't be able to get the show on screen in a timely manner, so they cancelled it. I opened the projector and held the dowser up with a cable tie. This issue was slightly different than in Theater 4 as it seemed the dowser had actually come loose in the Theater 3 projector and would not stay in the raise...

To do this evening/ was completed: Alien: Romulus looks and sounds fantastic.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Kat sent over a new 15min preshow for Trap , which I added to all playlists and got rid of the previous version.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Noticed that the keys for South Park will expire before its last screening this Sunday (there must've been a wee mistake there) so I reached out to Deluxe for an extension. Update: got the new keys! Outgoing/Shipping (content): Re-inspected Crooklyn , got it packed up and emailed DHL to schedule a pickup. Waiting on a response.  Print/video Inspection: See above.  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Put the rest of Mononoke onto house reels heads out.  Put Detroit Rock City onto house reels.  Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Took down Despicable Me 4 , a...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected Detroit Rock City. It is in pristine condition. Back on shipping reels for now. Stills uploaded to Drive. Conrad notified. New Appropriate Behavior DCP ingested to T3. Crooklyn intro and screening went mostly smoothly but I was having a pretty frustrating time maintaining sharp focus, particularly on P1, which was exhibiting the classic issue of the right third of the frame being pretty blurry while the rest of the image is sharp. Adjusted gate tension to some success but not that much. Undid the tension for reel four (second reel on that projector). Had to ride focus basically the whole time, but reels 3.5 - 6 went pretty smoothly. Not sure if the print itself was partially responsible. Wasn't able to get to the marquee tonight, apologies. Presentation Issues: MOD asked for table lights in T1 round two. I told them that I recalled an issue with the lights about a week or two ago. Went through the blogs to try to find info but didn't...

To do this evening/ was completed: Note: Keys for South Park open up Friday morning and will need to get tech'd then. Keys for Cuckoo and Penguin Friend open up tomorrow morning.  Reached out to Deluxe and the keys for The Limey should come in on 8/16, this Friday.  Had our cinema meeting today.  Weekly Projection Update has been emailed out. Please have a look and let us know if you have any questions! Thanks! - L (one more note: the display board in the lobby for the showtimes went wonky this morning, but I rebooted it twice and that did the trick. let us know if anything looks funky tonight. thanks!)  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Staff screening playlists for Alien , My Penguin Friend , and Cuckoo have been built/scheduled on the TMS and blocked on the calendar.  ***Built the babies playlist for the OCAP screening of Twisters on 8/20 in T3. Added 'babies' to the cue sheets. - L Trailer Updates: Ingested a few new first run trailers for t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingested Cuckoo and My Penguin Friend features. Playlists built. Scheduled the upcoming week in TMS. Angel intro and screening went smoothly. Print was looking pretty rough but the crowd had a good time. Rewound the print afterwards, re-inspection can transpire 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: A solo opening shift left me plenty to do along with the usual Tuesday business.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I made modifications to the Miseducation of Cameron Post and Appropriate Behavior playlists and added the DCP Show End to both.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Desmond sent an email out saying to have the Appropriate Behavior and Miseducation of Cameron Post events start earlier at 11:45 instead of 11:50. He also noted we should bring the house lights up more or less as soon as credits start to roll into the Q+A. In our tech I didn't put in a lights half cue over the credits because it already came up with the Q+A slide so I don't know if we want to add it to the playlist or just have it done manually that day.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): I looked at the subtitles for Cardcaptor Sakura which we have in September to make sure everything looked right ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected the rest of Mononoke (reels 4-9). It's in great condition. Put it on house reels. Will upload stills to Drive tomorrow. Built playlists for Limey and South Park. Babies trailer pack had house lights down cue instead of MID, updated that. Not sure if there was any new directive to bring lights all the way down so mentioning it here. Apple TV device was on the fritz again tonight. I power-cycled it, which seemed to do the trick. Existenz went fine. Playlist didn't start even though it was scheduled. Typical for T2. 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?: Addit...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Playlists for Cameron Post and Appropriate Behaviour have been built.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Sent the tech specs/certs to the folks for the special screening of  My Old Ass .  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Got the keys for Longlegs and Despicable Me 4 .  Reached out to the programmers for some content for next week just to get a bit ahead of our meeting this Wednesday. The Limey and South Park are coming from Deluxe, so we should get those relatively soon. John is looking into tracking info for Superstar , coming from Paramount. We're now looped into the thread. Update: The Limey  and South Park have been received and ingested!  We received the prints Detroit Rock City and Princess Mononoke .  Desmond sent the slides for Cameron Post and Appropriate Behaviour . DCP'd and ingested these.  O...

To do this evening/ was completed: Printed labels and scheduled pickups for All About My Mother and The Blade, 12-6 pm window.   Both prints are on the cart by the side entrance door. Outgoing brunch letters down. Added the HN_17 Welcome and Feature pieces to 8/16 trailer packs per Kat's instruction. HN_14 are done. Concluded playlists removed from servers. 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: Quiet night on my end. Checked in on all the theaters. T6 still stable.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: As per my usual Saturday to-dos, I double checked all the playlists for the coming week as well as the TMS schedule against it.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Still waiting on a few slides/feature content for some SE playlists.  Looked ahead for KDMs and ingested the new keys for Inside Out 2 since they'd expire by Monday.  We should be getting new keys for Despicable Me 4 and Longlegs some time Monday, I reckon. They'll expire by the 14th. I'll reach out just in case.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cleaned the 4/6 booth. Tucked into T5 to clean around.  Leaving the mouse plugged in overnight so it can charge up.  Btw you'll notice ...

To do this evening/ was completed: I checked in with each theater before and after noon today, to make sure we were all in the clear after the fire alarm maintenance today.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Received the new content/trailer list from Kat for 8/16. Downloaded and ingested everything we need: Alien preshow 5min/15min/25min , Observe and Report trailer, Forecasts .  Built all A1 playlists for the week of 8/16! Built some REP/SE shows, but quite a few still need to be done. Reached out to Desmond for some of his August slides for Appropriate Behaviour and Cameron Post .  Trailer Updates: Built/Updated trailer packs for 8/16.  Special Events/ AV set up: Olympics are on in Trees.  Tech'd Magnolia today for the private in T6 tomorrow morning. Looks and sounds great. Credit offset slightly adjusted on the sheet.  Appropriate Behaviour finished transcoding in T1. Ingested to the TMS since it wouldn't read when I attempted ingest dire...

To do this evening/ was completed: All About My Mother went very smoothly this afternoon. Re-inspected the print afterward and packaged it up. Outgoing can get scheduled tonight. Magnolia private screening also went smoothly, Blu-ray returned to host. Presentation Issues: MOD walkie'd saying a guest had told them the sound was too loud during the PG trailer pack and that they concurred with the guest, so I updated the volume in the pack to 4.0 for everything aside from the PSA. I was also asked to slightly lower the feature volume, so brought that down from 6.3 to 5.8. Did not update that in the playlist though. 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?: Proj...

To do this evening/ was completed: Seemed a busy night, lots of cleaning lights being brought up then down. Ordered lightbulbs for the 4/6 desk lamp (the ones I got were too small). Also ordered more cotton gloves for inspecting prints. Presentation Issues: Shows went well. No issues in 6. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Inspected all of the Lady in the Water print. It's in great condition. It's tails out on the shipping reels in the box. FYI-I had to add some leader to the first reel as there wasn't nearly enough. Please detach it when packing this away if you think of it. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Swept and mopped the floor in booth 2. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance...

To do this evening/ was completed: As reported earlier, fire alarm went off around 5:30 today. Lillian and I reset everything with the exception of T1, which was not triggered by the alarm system yet again. Other auditoriums were reset, films rewound about six minutes, relatively minimal delays. Re-scheduled the rest of the upcoming week in T6. Scheduling was done when it was still down on Tuesday. Magnolia letters down, Crooklyn up. 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: Hey team, the reason the whole "FFE" was implemented for inspection reports is to avoid problems like the one Jack had last night, so even if you write down that one reel or two have changeover cues with barely any time (two frames from the end is damn near impossible to hit) you should absolutely add grease cues (if it's a studio print. if it's archival, reach out to get permission and, on the off chance they say 'no,' make it clear on the report in highlighted text that the c/o needs to happen almost immediately after the motor cue. there are ways around this.) Thank you! T6 remains stable.  Tech'd It Ends With Us and adjusted the volume in the playlists (apart from the Babies playlist, of course) to be at 6.0 since it's actually a rather subdued film, apart from a few outbursts of anger and some sweeping music.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Magnolia finished transcoding in T1. Ingested this to T6 ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected the last three reels of Crooklyn. Print is in very nice condition overall. Reels are back on shipping for the moment. Magnolia screening went pretty smoothly with the exception of a few minor blips. The first being that the 239 FILM masking cue didn't trigger the curtains so the Mummy trailer started with some bleed on the curtains. Hit the regular 239 cue to open them up. 239 FILM doesn't work for T1 right now. The other two blips were cue-related. The description of the Mummy  grease motor cue in the 8/3 blog and the info sheet card somewhat made it sound like the cue would come when the release date for the film came on screen, so I didn't see it when it came prior to that. Little bit of tail leader on screen, muted the processor soon as I could. Also reel 5 had CO cues two frames from the end of the reel. I see that's listed in the inspection report, but it would've been better to add some new grease cues to the right...

To do this evening/ was completed: Had our cinema meeting this morning and we're all set on content for this week, which is great.  *Weekly Projection Update has been emailed out, so feast your eyes on it when you get a chance and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Staff screenings have been emailed out, playlists are built and scheduled on the TMS, calendar is blocked.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Took a seat out in T5 for second round Despicable Me . Please put this back at the end of the film! Thanks! Screws on the table.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received posters for My Old Ass Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and ingested Alien: Romulus , 7.1s are in, 5.1s are out.  Reached out to Deluxe for an eta on the KDM for Existenz . Update: keys will come in some time tomorrow.  Received Crooklyn , brought down to T1 for inspection.  Outgoing/Shipping (conte...

To do this evening/ was completed: My return to a Tuesday closing shift here was a busy one with a couple events and some technical things that added extra wrenches here. But it all got sorted out in the end.  Presentation Issues: When I was setting up trivia, Shay's laptop audio wasn't coming on. No problem, just have to turn the volume up on the projector: only the volume bar wasn't showing up onscreen. This was on other video inputs as well. Whenever I pressed it on the remote the image would go in and out onscreen. I ended up having to grab a ladder and manually press the volume button on the projector. It worked, but the volume bar still didn't show up.  Jared walkie'd me saying that the table lights in Theater 1 were off. I went to turn them back on and they started flickering off and on. I turned it back on and off again and it seemed to return to normal.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built the playlist out for the It Ends With You Babies screening next Tues...

To do this evening/ was completed: Checked Twisters volume for the infants show in 3 this afternoon after some customer feedback that it hasn't been quiet enough. I thought it was good at 4.3. Updated next week's playlist. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: built both It Ends With Us playlists and Sundays on Fire. Friday 8/9 through Sunday 8/11 are scheduled. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Trivia tonight, checked the AV box in Trees and everything is in there. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested It Ends With Us to the TMS. Angel print received. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Checked Blade Runner and set volume, playlist is good to go for tonight. Teched The Blade print, looks and sounds good! Chenelle dropped of a blu-ray of Magnolia for a private event on Sunday. It's been ripped and is ready to be DCP'd, audio is analyzing down in booth 1. Asset tracking doc updated/che...

To do this evening/ was completed: Quiet night, spent some time reviewing recent blogs/troubleshooting breakdowns. Ghost Dog was a hit with the crowd. Double-checked tomorrow's Blade Runner playlist. Fidelio unit returned to charging station. New keys uploaded for Inside Out and Deadpool. 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: Bob from DMS came in to check out the projector and relay info to Jerry. We pulled logs and sent them off as requested.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built the playlist for ExistenZ ,  All About My Mother and adjusted the  Angel playlist Double checked that the Twisters matinee in T3 tomorrow is a babies playlist.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Put the Olympics on in Trees.  Took out an assisted listening device for T5.  Apparently we had a guest drop off a BluRay for a private event last night, but I didn't find anything in the booth(s) nor was it in the MOD office or lobby bar area. Chenelle is reaching out to the host.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Reached out to Deluxe to get an eta on the keys for Despicable Me 4 as they'll expire by Weds. Keys were delivered shortly after.  Received and uploaded the keys for Longlegs .  DCP'd...

To do this evening/ was completed: No further issues with house lights this evening. ** The broken key piece I wrote about a few days ago--the one lodged inside the T2 booth door handle--has seemingly become more obstructive. I was unable to access the T2 booth because my key simply could not slide into the lock. I tried for minutes to finagle my key but no luck. The broken key piece will need to be removed ASAP. I took a video if anyone needs to see it.** Outgoing brunch letters down. Cat Video Fest plays again next weekend so those stay up, and I put SoF up there as well to fill out the marquee. Cue sheets checked. 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 o...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Paul radioed me when Theater 2 started that cleaning lights were still on. I went to check to make sure it was reset after the fire alarm and it was, house light cues were just not working so I manually brought lights down to preshow and tried to figure it out. This was the case in 1, 4, and 6 as well. At first I thought the IPs had reset since I could not access the web GUI, but after trying to access the deafult IP didn't work either I knew that wasn't the case. Ultimately power cycling the units and reseating the ethernet cable in the back did the trick and allowed me to access the web GUIs again and fire automation cues. I suppose the fire alarm disrupted the ethernet connection because Lillian mentioned having to bring lights up manually last night. I checked each Christie lamp house this morning just in case/for peace of mind and they were all fine. We've been speaking to DMS about the T6 projector and someone is...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hi everyone. First of all, thank you for helping me out with coverage so I could get some r&r. I appreciate you all very much.  Unfortunately, we had a tough night here. You'll all have seen my email about the strange noises coming from the projector in T6, the ventilation, and the smells moving their way through T2. I did worry about the possibility of the fire alarm going off, and it did, mere seconds after Jared and I hoped it'd be alright as the smells seemed to be receding in both places, which weren't hugely offensive to begin with, but our smoke detectors are good. For some theatres, this happened during the penultimate round, and for others it was final round. It took a lot of team effort for us to get back on track. Having to both physically and digitally reset everything and then adjust the times correctly certainly rook a minute, but we made it work as best we could with the challenges presented to us, and got everything bac...

To do this evening/ was completed: Matthew let me know that there was a power issue overnight on 14th street and ConEd cut power to the building for a few hours. Checked each booth and theater and everything was already on and working normally. Reminder to make sure the cable box stays awake so the Olympics stay on in Trees. Presentation Issues: Shortly after 2 I got a call that a guest said the picture on screen in Theater 2 was "turning green" on and off. I went and checked it and sure enough, it was going green/fuzzy for a good 20-30 seconds before going back to normal. It seemed infrequent and I only saw it happen once. It reminded me of when I needed to reseat the LEQDs because the screen was green and fuzzy after the dowser business in Theater 4 just before last Christmas. I immediately texted Jerry from DMS about it and he said to pull interrogator logs and reseat the LEQDs and the boards, and then pull interrogator logs after the following show. After reseating everyt...

To do this evening/ was completed: Made the rounds this evening and took note of volume levels in the new first run show playlists 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: Checked on booth 2 during the torrential downpour this evening and fortunately there were no signs of leaks or A/Cs dripping from the humidity and/or rainfall Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked, cross referenced the schedule, and initialed Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Yes Additional Notes: