NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Built a playlist for Walk Hard. Inspected the first three reels of Starship Troopers. Print is in good condition with mild/moderate base scratching.  Presentation Issues: When reel two finished running on projector one, I began threading reel four and noticed that the takeup belt had come loose. I reattached it and reel four played smoothly with no issue. However, toward the end of reel six, the belt came loose again, resulting in about 15% of the reel on the ground. I didn't notice this until the reel finished because I was waiting to changeover to projector two. I picked the film up off the ground and rewound it back on to the reel while holding a kimtech cloth to the film to try to get as much detritus off of it as possible. To my eye there wasn't any on-screen effect during the end portion of reel six. Print has been rewound heads out aside from that reel--it's still tails out. Dragon Ball round two in T6 was listed as ending at 10:40 ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded and ingested Class of 07, Barbarian , and Bad Guys (for Minions ) preshow clips. Built and scheduled Minions , Sunset Blvd , and Barbarian playlists. Built Cinema Day playlists for all first run movies and scheduled them on Sat 9/3. Updated Sign O the Times and Redline playlists. Preshow was either too short (content missing) or too long (a clip needed to be removed). Trailer Updates: Updated the PG trailer pack, Kat added some content to the trailer list. Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content):  Received Minions and Barbarian through Deluxe E-delivery. Ingested both. Need to check the credit offset for Minions again, as the one included with the DCP is wrong. I know it has 8 minutes of credits though. Walk Hard drive arrived, locally ingested to Theater 3. This ingest was still queued as I left (scheduling triggered severa...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingested preshow content and keys for  DC Super-Pets , Thor: Love and Thunder , and Top Gun: Maverick Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Updated show playlists for 9/2 for Beast , DC Super-Pets (trailer pack needs extra content),  Thor: Love and Thunder , and  Top Gun: Maverick  Trailer Updates: Made "Cinema Day" trailer packs for all film ratings, however, the PG trailer pack is too short in general and needs to be updated Special Events/ AV set up: The Reverend screening and Q&A in theater 1 went well and the talkback was recorded and uploaded to the shared drive (there was a minor technical issue involving the memory card so about 3 minutes of the conversation was lost but John and Kat have been emailed and informed; Kat will have to splice together the two separate MP4 files to make for a smooth transition between them for Brooklyn Magazine to use for its website) Set up mics/wires for trivia at Trees Lounge this e...

To do this evening/ was completed: Set up mixer and wired mics for intro/Q&A tonight in T1. Went over the event with Will. Re-inspected Panic Room, ready for pickup from Sony. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Locally ingested Sunset Boulevard to T1. Re-ingested returning features (T op Gun, Thor, Emily the Criminal, DC Super Pets ) and downloaded related preshow content. Built 09/02 playlists for these features, without their specific preshow contents--have yet to schedule the coming week's shows in TMS. Made playlists for Sign O' The Times and Redline.  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: Updated the slides in the Reverend playlist. The movie title slide for intro and live performance? and the Brooklyn Magazine/Nitehawk logo slide for the Q&A. The Williamsburg B forecast for 9/2 was ingested and added to our playlists instead of the NPP one. I downloaded/ingested the right one and replaced it in all playlists. Downloaded and ingested the Singers and Actors, Noir, and Satoshi Kon preshow clips for next week’s special event playlists. Built a preshow playlist for Starship Troopers . Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Panic Room screening went very well. Left the print wound heads out for reinspecting tomorrow. Setup for the live performance at the Reverend screening tomorrow should be very simple. Only two mics, one for vocals and one for an accordion will be needed. Use wired mics, the Yamaha mini mixer, and connect them to the wall PA. Then wireless mics for the Q&A so it...

To do this evening/ was completed: Completed house checks in each auditorium and made adjustments to focusing and image orientation where necessary Presentation Issues: I noticed during house checks that the port glass in theater 4 had fogged over but it cleared once the auditorium cooled down in the early afternoon; this same issue occurred again during the pre-show for the first round but was resolved after I wiped the port glass from the inside of the auditorium to avoid having to remove the glass and directly fogging up the projector lens Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Starship Troopers and Mars Attacks! prints were delivered and brought to theater 1; Pearl KDMs were delivered and ingested Outgoing/Shipping (content): Brought all outgoing DCP drives to the UPS store for return shipment Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue ...

To do this evening/ was completed: No problems in T1. Sensor failure didn't cause any issues during the later rounds. 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?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Yes Additional Notes: