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Topic: Any one else getting an audio/visual inspection in order to show "Tomorrowland?"
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
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posted 05-15-2015 08:33 PM
We frequently get this sort of thing happening before major premieres. What usually happens is that a tech ensures that the light output from the projector is an even 14ft-l across the screen and "shoots the colors" (checks that the red, green and blue components of the white light reflected off the screen are in balance). The color temperature of a xenon bulb can change during the course of its life, and if this has happened, projector settings may need to be changed to take account of it.
If the bulb has deteriorated to the point at which it can no longer deliver 14ft-l, even after tweaking the reflector alignment, they may ask you to replace the bulb. I like to have a spare in stock if the bulb installed has done more than 200-300 hours, so that if we get a high profile screening or festival with studio checks done beforehand, we can replace the bulb if requested.
On the audio side of things, they will "tune the room", which basically means tweaking the audio processor's levels and EQ curve for each channel to ensure that the output meets reference standards when playing pink noise.
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Marcel Birgelen
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From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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posted 05-18-2015 08:38 AM
quote: Leo Enticknap
We frequently get this sort of thing happening before major premieres. What usually happens is that a tech ensures that the light output from the projector is an even 14ft-l across the screen and "shoots the colors" (checks that the red, green and blue components of the white light reflected off the screen are in balance). The color temperature of a xenon bulb can change during the course of its life, and if this has happened, projector settings may need to be changed to take account of it.
Yeah, well, for a premiere, I can somehow understand this. Actually I would be rather surprised if they didn't do a little bit of QC.
But for a normal theatrical run it's something new for me, at least if it's coming from a studio.
quote: Jonathan Goeldner
looks like they have dropped it - IMAX is not denoting it as such, nor Walt Disney Studio's Facebook page. Although they are never 100% accurate IMDB states the movie's AR is 2.20 (and the IMAX framing is open matte 1.90)
They did advertise it as a 3D release, at least around here, but it has now been reverted to a normal 2D release.
I'm not sure what amounts to fake v.s. real 3D if large parts of your movie come right out of the big CGI machine anyway.
On another note, the movie seems to have been rebranded as "Project T" over here, I'm not sure if this change is a smart move.
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