>sees real directors providing notes on their films>decides he wants to do it to>gives vague instructions instead of meaningful ones though because none of this shit actually matters, he just wants to pretend it does3db hotter than normal? Which would vary from cinema to cinema? If this is actually important you'd specify the correct sound levelAnd the headroom is not specifying an actual measurement.What a pretentious wanker. "Look mommy, I'm directing!!!"
Noe this is how it's done right
>>216955244How likely is it that a projectionist would actually do all this?
>>216955238Do you think his AI films if he were still alive would have instructions?
>>216955438Based
>>216955438i lost respect for him as an artist when he rereleased inland empire with the AI restoration and upscaling. no clue why he even shot it on a shitty camcorder in the first place if he wasn't going for that look. he could've gotten a much better camera even on the film's relatively meager budget.
>>216955552>no clue why he even shot it on a shitty camcorder in the first place...because he's a fraud
>>216955238>>216955244Move aside, hacks. Jimbo is in the house
I'm gonna watch Mulholland Drive on my phone
>>2169554171. yeah definitely, if they get this wrong the whole movie shifts up by a sprocket hole and they'll have to manually adjust it every time or re-cut and splice it correctly later which sucks to do2. this should be a simple adjustment, easy3. no one is going to measure or change the light levels for one specific film unless they get complaints, but the letter would at least give them a heads up4-9. at first I thought this was for theaters with smaller platters that couldn't handle 3 hours of film, so in that case it was necessary to use that black intermission to swap to the second assembled platter into the projector so the second half of the film could be shown. picrel is a 4 platter setup, the ones I ran only had 3 but same concept. movies are spliced from smaller transportable reels into one platter usually, that's pulled from the center and runs through the projector then re-spools on a platter above or below it. o na long movie the first half would play from say center to top platter, then the 2nd half from bottom to center. but then I realized it says the intermission starts in reel 6, then the black frames, then part 2 starts also in reel 6, so I don't know if they expected the projectionist to split that reel or if it was just a convoluted warning about the long swaths of black frames being there intentionally. I would have ignored it.10. in 1975 maybe, unless the theater has it's own pre and post movie audio to play.
>>216956344I'm assuming all of this is test run at least once before it goes "live". In that case whatever nonsense they cooked up would be caught by simply testing it out first.
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>>216956344Thanks anon, very informative.
>>216955238We used to run all films at a standard db range, but occasionally someone’s. prints would come out quiet and they would attach a note like this to make up for it. We also had used to have to matte our films in the projection room, And occasionally filmmakers would be unhappy with the print and send a note like this. Sounds like Lynch got some shitty prints and the studio wouldn’t pay for new ones to be made.as for you being a dickhead about shit from 50 fucking years ago that doesn’t concern you, message received 10-4 A-Ok, you’re a dickhead, i believe you.
>>216956393that was rare, and only even considered if the first showtime was expected to be packed and there was enough time for essentially a private free screening for volunteer off the clock employees to monitor it (in exchange for seeing a popular movie for free before it officially opened). my typical experience was new film reels showed up the day before their first showtime was scheduled, we had to wait until the auditorium it was slated for finished the last movie, then assemble the reels well after midnight and let the morning shift deal with any problems when the first showtime ran. big movies with Thursday night openings were rough because they would only get there the afternoon of the show, sometimes being carried in past a line outside waiting for the opening show, and the spare projectionist would have to assemble the film at a running projector on the 3rd platter while the other 2 finished the currently playing movie
>>216956488>>216956732>>216956344Did shit movies ever pull this stuff?Like did you get a letter with special instructions for lighting and sound for Grown Ups 2 or whatever?
>>216955238It feels like a shitpost, "3db hotter" will not be perceptible to the audience in a theater and if the entire film was supposed to be framed 5% above center they would have done that in editing.
>>216956909Sure.
>>216955934>that fontjesus christ isn't cameron like 80 years old?
>>216956979why did he write in comic sans
>>216955238>3db hotter than normal?Well in audio, "normal," to my understanding, would be set at "unity." So not plus or minus any dB. So unless cinema projectors work with a different approach or standard, he's asking the volume of the board to be set three decibels higher, which is a very small request that any mixing board can do.
>>216957081He only asked because the one theater he saw it in sounded a little quiet. That's it.
>>216955438I've noticed, 100%, that actual artists don't consider AI to be a threat.Only troon porn "artists" and troon "programmers" and troon voice "actors" feel threatened.Artists, on the other hand, just see a new medium to fuck around with.
>>216957244Artists who are household names and are financially secure obviously would view a new technology like this with more favoritism than people who haven't "made it." Surely you'd at least agree that AI massively raises the skill floor on a multitude of career paths, thus making entry into any of them more difficult.
>>216957292>Surely you'd at least agree that AI massively raises the skill floor on a multitude of career paths,The skill floor was never that low to begin with, and that was a massive problem. Most faggots who haven't made it never would in the first place. The ones who will are gonna make it regardless of the existence of current technology.
Bring back intermissionEveryone wants it
>>216957318>The ones who will are gonna make it regardless of the existence of current technology.I think that's a very naive way of looking at things. Getting a basic ass CS degree and wanting to work a 40 hour a week office job isn't some starry eyed unreasonable goal. But companies across the globe are scrambling to insert AI wherever possible, and reduce the work force, most often that eliminating entry and junior positions. And those people aren't going to keel over and die. They will "learn a trade," and thus devalue a fuck ton of other professions. There are eight billion people on Earth, and we all gotta eat.
>>216956979>last Star Wars movie ever.A-ha!
>this thread Are people finally finding out Lynch is a midwit hack?No there’s no ”meaning” behind anything he does and it looks like people are realizing there’s no rhyme or reason either (except for his aspbergers retardation).
>>216955238>headroomIsn't this because half the film was shot for TV, with a different aspect ratio, and then I guess recut somehow for cinema aspect ratio?I don't know that for a fact but if you watch Mulholland Drive, in close-up shots the actor's faces take up the whole screen, to the point where sometimes the tops of their heads are cut offMucho extreme close-upsThis change presumably maximises forehead size, pushes their eyes closer to the centre of the frameAm I talking shit?
>>216956916>"3db hotter" will not be perceptible to the audience in a theaterYes you would notice the difference
>>216957521You might. Most people won't. Feel special?
>>216957002When Microsoft Word first came out, writing things in different fonts was genuinely excitinghttps://youtu.be/SprRWXKnq20?t=30
>>216957244>Artists, on the other hand, just see a new medium to fuck around with.Only if they're senile and retarded like David Lynch was.Real artists aren't threatened by AI because it's a bunch of bullshit. You fuck around with it for five minutes you realise it's not a useful tool
>>216955934The audio at the showing of fire and ash I saw was perfect. I was worried because the dipshits running the show had the previews running like 15db hot and it was borderline painful. I don't understand why they do that shit.
>>216957070It was 2005. You wouldn't get it.
>>2169575613dB is about x1.5 louder so depending on the base setting most would notice
>>216957764>depending on the base settingIt's arbitrary.
I always assumed nowadays in modern cinemas that one of the teenagers who works the concession stand/cleans the toilets/turns off the lights also presses a button in the projection booth to make the film run, then calls somebody up from head office if it goes tits up. Is there still somebody qualified in the booths, even with digital projection?
>>216957655you weren't alive in 2005
>>216957645When I saw The Way of Water, it was so loud that I had to roll up each half of my ticket and stick them in my ears. And even then it was still uncomfortably loud.
>>216955244>An immense amount of care and attention to detail was used in the making of this film.>Except the changeover dots, we fucked that all up.>Please save my bacon by remembering to use the "x's" instead of the dots, but only on the last changeover.>Sorry for requiring you to pay extra special attention and follow confusing, unique instructions that no other film in your career has necessitated, making your job much more difficult.>Of course, you won't be paid extra despite the extra work and increased focus required. >Yours sincerely, a big fat prick with a hard-on for himself.
>>216957645Previews and ads are over 1db louder than feature files, just like commercials in your home TV. Projectors run automatically these days and the sound level stays at the same setting through the entire digital playlist. And really, you get what you deserve for contributing to the fucking Avatar franchise. It's a shame your theater didn't catch fire or get shot up while you were inside.
>>216956979>George didn't even write the letterIs he responsible for doing anything good about Star Wars?
>>216958685>just like commercials in your home TV.>commercials>home TVwtf unc wafflin about?
>>216957070He's based
>>216957577Yes but that letter was written in 2025
>>216957577Holy product placement
>>216957645Stop saying hot
>>216958646Lol
>>216957244This is such a weird cope. Real artists don't consider AI a threat because they can immediately see that all it produces is complete dogshit only retarded pajeets find impressive. This applies to everything else AI is used for as well, it only seems impressive if you have zero experience in the field you're using it for and because you lack experience, you can't spot the massive problems it introduces down the line.
>>216958780by an old person>>216958794are you fucking retarded
