I am now oficially employed by our local Carmike multiplex. I am the new projectionist, and it’s been a lot of fun so far. Not to hard, just gotta stay on the ball and keep my eyes out for brain wrap (a technical term, you probably wouldn’t understand.) I thread the film through our 12 projectors, cut and edit previews, preview the movies, all sorts of nifty stuff. So far they’re not making me wear one of those stupid bow-ties, because I pretty much spend all my time upstairs. It’s minimum wage, but I pretty much get all the hours I want or can handle. So, if anyone has any questions about the technical side of a movie theater, ask away. I’m still learning all the details, but I pretty much have the gist of the job down.
Sorry, I knew the TD reference was a bit obscure.
Have you seen Fight Club? TD was the character played by Brad Pitt, who worked fo a while as a projectionist. He added his own footage (very… private footage) to the films as “subliminal messages”.
Congrats on the job.
As an avid movie-goer, I have seen how important the job is.
You’d be suprised by the number of times I’ve had to complain that the picture wasn’t centered on the screen .
BTW, by ‘edit the previews’, do you mean that you can change them?
The last popcorn girl to serve me had seen Star Wars’ prequil so often she only talked backward like Yoda.
If it had been Jar Jar, they would have fired her.
Maz: I didn’t really care to see Fight Club. Never was that interested, even if it did have Ed Norton, whom I love.
Spooge: With the projectors I work with, centering up the frame isn’t the big problem. It’s switching between the different lenses, which is supposed to be automatic. But the jast projectionists who build the films (put the previews together and all) don’t put the sensor tape on, and the machine doesn’t know when to automatically switch the lenses. As new Proj, I vow to change the way things are done.
And by editing previews I mean I take the film the studio sends us, and put 5 film previews on it. And yes, I choose them. It doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s the same type of movie and all.
Handy: Me, making out? Yeah, right. Like that’ll happen in my lifetime.
Ultress: Yes, I’ve seen the beginning of Battlefield Earth 13 times.
Actually, there’s a few regular commercials (I hate them. Commercials in a theater, that’s just evil), like the one for the PTCruiser right now, the Carmike candy and emergency exit thing, and 5 film trailers. But I know what you mean, most theaters have way more than five trailers.
