NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers):  Ordering/Receiving (content): A box containing a print of  Silent Hill  was delivered this evening despite it not being scheduled at either of our locations (I checked both calendars and could not find the title this month or the next). I looked inside the box to make sure it wasn't another print that had been mislabeled but even the packing slip had the title written down. I re-taped the box and brought it back down on the cart near the side door until it can be returned or picked up by someone from Sony. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Put letters  up for  Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (that's right, all three of them) and removed Practical Magic 2 ...

To do this evening/ was completed: More NewFest teching/downloading/ingesting today.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Kat sent the trailer list, I've been ingesting content - forecasts, new trailers and what not, but the QR explainer (V3) won't be available for a few days.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Set for the SE shows this weekend. Spoons stuff is still off to the side in T1 with a black cloth over it, but I turned on the mixer since the PA speakers make an unpleasant sound when the mixer is not engaged.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Got the DCP/KDM for Edie Arnold, which Desmond and I were also able to take a look at today.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Cleared content we no longer need. Much more space in T1 now, which will be good for NewFest.  Print/video Inspection: Tech'd some trailers today with Desmond and Galen, a few features and some shorts that either hadn't been delivered...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: I brought the spots board back up to the booth for the John Wilson Q&A in theater 1 and reconnected it there to avoid operating the lights from the side of the screen.  The History of Concrete screening and talkback went just fine save for the ten or so minutes they went over taking audience questions which immediately cut into the STB event starting on schedule with its near two hundred guests waiting outside the auditorium. I brought the spots board back down, reconnected it for the STB hosts, and was alerted to the wash lights malfunctioning. Took a couple of runs up and down from booth 1 and messing with the buttons on the board itself before I realized the "left" and "center" spotlight breaker switches were left off despite Lillian's blog stating these could be kept on. I am not sure why these were off. I also did not know these pr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Adjusted the playlist ever so slightly for John Wilson tonight, just to make it smoother. We're all set for this show, just grab two chairs when the time comes.  FOH meeting went well, cleaned up afterwards.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built the playlist for Color of Money and ingested some missing preshow content.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Set up Spoons for tonight. All the equipment will just need to be turned on. Also, when breaking down we only need to switch off the "Moving Spots" breaker since those fixtures make noise when they're on. The "Center" and "Left Spotlight" breakers can stay on. Also, we can use the switcher to switch between HDMI sources (cable and stage) in Theater 1 and Theater 2. No need to move the cables connected to the receivers on the wall. The switcher is on top of the CP750 in both booths, pictured below: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers):...