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Ron Curran
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Thank goodness for a versatile automation. We are running My Sister's Keeper with two trailers and (as John Wilson advised) an attached trailer.
First trailer is for a Scope feature and it is letterboxed flat. Next trailer is for a Scope feature and it is 1.85 flat.
Attached trailer is for a flat feature and requires a lens change coz it is anamorphic. Trouble is the 10 second classification tag preceding it is Scope 2.35. So we compromise and leave the masking in till the Scope feature starts. This means that the tag info is contained ok within the masking but the rest of the tag image provides a yellow splash on the masking. It doesn't look good but I decided it would look silly if we went to full screen for the tag then closed masking for the trailer then opened up for the feature.
How do constant width cinemas cope with this situation?

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Monte L Fullmer
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quote: Ron Curran
Attached trailer is for a flat feature and requires a lens change coz it is anamorphic
Interesting that the attached trailer needs a lens change...being that the feature is in scope. It should be formatted for the scope lens as well.
quote: Ron Curran
Trouble is the 10 second classification tag preceding it is Scope 2.35. ..
splice in the classification tag after the attached trailer to match the feature's ratio.

Thus, you'll have a better opening presentation that way ..

In all due actuality, any policy tags should be after your trailer paks - it should separate the trailers from the feature.

-Monte

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John Wilson
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quote: Monte L Fullmer
Interesting that the attached trailer needs a lens change
He didn't say that.

I find it amazing that they can't just blow the flat versions of the scope trailers up to fill the frame. Obviously there would be SOME trailers that would not work for, but come on. How prescious is your movie that you'd prefer an abundance of black top and bottom to a full frame image? Same goes for Scope versions of a flat trailer where it's 'pillarboxed' Fill the damn frame for goodness sake.

Just dumb and I wish they would stop it.

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Joe Redifer
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quote: John Wilson
Fill the damn frame for goodness sake.
So, how do you watch DVDs on your 4:3 TV? Go for the pan and scan?

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John Wilson
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I'm not talking about the movie, just the trailers. We never had this issue before TITANIC came out it seems. Fox brought out that great trailer for TITANIC in scope only here. Then when they found out there were locations not playing them because they were in scope they shot out the flat version in letterbox format.

It's never been the same since. [thumbsdown]

They managed for years to have scope movies' trailer fill the flat frame. Seems to me they've simply taken the easy road instead of having to 'scan' a problem scene to make it fit. Right now I'm looking at a trailer for some slop called 'Charlie And Boots' with Paul Hogan. It's letterboxed and I can't see a single frame on the trailer that justifies it being letterboxed. There's miles of image there that would be better served not being there instead of having to put up with letterboxing black.

I'm not saying ALL trailers should do this, but come on. Does EVERY trailer need to be letterboxed? I seriously doubt it. [puke]

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John Hawkinson
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Sadly, I have the impression that Somebody Out There actually believes that people like black bars, and think they are an indicator of something good.

I keep saying we should get a "letterboxed" lens that's longer than our flat lens exclusively for the purpose of blowing up these letterboxed flat trailers so they fill the height properly...Somebody's old cokebottle...

--jhawk

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Steve Guttag
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Psssst...you meant "shorter" lens for blowing the image up.

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John Hawkinson
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Indeed, indeed, thanks.

(With a longer lens we could make all films windowboxed! Sadly
some fools might like that. )

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David Stambaugh
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My inner geek-nerd wants scope source material to be letterboxed when projected flat, whether it needs it or not. [Wink]

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Steve Guttag
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I actually agree. If it is letterboxed on the film, then letterbox it on the screen. But what I think John is saying is to merely magnify the whole image so that it is shown in on the "scope" screen.

Steve

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John Wilson
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I agree with that. Flat is crappy enough without blowing it up further.

No, indeed I mean blow it up to fill the 1.85 frame or blow the 1.85 image up to fill the scope frame.

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Ron Curran
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The other rotten thing about letterboxed trailers is this: If we have an all-flat program, I feel that some of the audience will assume that the letterbox image indicates how our Scope features will be presented.
Just to clarify: the classification tag is legally required to run before the trailer. One thing I could do is attach a flat tag (for the following trailer) to the end of the flat trailer then do a lens change after that then open the masking for the feature.
As for Flat trailers filling the Scope screen, I remember Saving Private Ryan had such a trailer specially produced. However, as a customer, I would be disappointed if I saw the feature was flat after seeing a Scope trailer.

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Frank Angel
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Digital will fix all this.

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John Wilson
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Right. Features are now to be letterboxed. [Mad]

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John Koutsoumis
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Scope films in IMAX Digital are letterboxed.
I hate scope trailers and prefer letterboxed ones anyday.
Only the feature should be in scope.

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