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Topic: Non-Sync music...What do you play?
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John Wilson
Film God
Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-17-2001 08:08 AM
Just what do you suggest is played before the IMAX 3D movie 'Alien Adventure' then Danny? They're there to have some fun for 40 minutes after all, not alter their life.I asked a question (albeit a long time ago) and the guys have answered honestly. Most of them seem to not like the music they play, but are forced to play it by their head office. Others have a choice and play pre-show music they feel is appropriate. I guess we can all be thankful that one day you will make a film which comes with its own pre-show music so it can promptly be filed in the appropriate place. Me...? I'll run what I want with what I want...if that's ok with you, that is. Geez...  ------------------
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John Wilson
Film God
Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-17-2001 08:18 AM
Actually, we went through a change of management here a while back and were informed we could not play any other pre-show music except for IMAX movie soundtracks as they would not pay the royalties fee for any other music....now those were an exciting few months. The audience were just about asleep by the time they got to their seats. Now they are discovering once again that it is, in fact, fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A. 
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-20-2001 09:07 PM
I got an idea a while back:
Most of the theatres that I work in have muti-disc CD players but are only allowed to play the stupid MovieTunes® disk, thus leaving anywhere from 5 to 10 empty slots in the player. What a waste of money, eh?Well, I was thinking that MovieTunes® could put out a disk that contains JUST the ads that they want to play for this month and maybe another disk that contains those songs that they want to push. Then the other slots in the disk could be filled up with whatever movie soundtrack CDs happen to be current. Then they could put the player on "spiral play" and hit the repeat button. (Spiral play is the mode that plays track #1 from disk #1, then plays track #1 from disk #2, etc, etc...) Heck! There is usually about a 1/2 dozen of those things lying around the theatre anyway. Why not put them to good use, instead of them ending up on the floor in the back seat of some assistant manager's car. The movie company get's their products pushed. The record company get's their products pushed. MovieTunes® gets to play their advertisements. And, WE don't have to listen to the same awful music all the damn time.
This way EVERYBODY would be happy. (Potentially.)
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Andy Muirhead
Master Film Handler
Posts: 323
From: Galashiels, Scotland
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 08-22-2001 06:48 PM
I play whatever "I" want to playWe pay a yearly subs to PRS which means we can play what we want. Usually i'll tailor the tunes more to the customers than the movie, i.e if we have a film that has a more elderly crowd i'll play more laid back instrumentals, and if the crowd is mostly young i'll play contemporary stuff like indie and banging house. It just depends on the crowd. Danny, playing stuff tailored to the film is all well and good but it's a bloody cliche, and anyway, whats the point setting a mood when it's going to get blasted away by 20mins of ads and trailers? Fair point if your going straight into the film though.
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Bernard Tonks
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 619
From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 08-23-2001 10:45 AM
Back in the early 1980s apart from using LPs and cassettes, I used to record onto ¼” tape almost non-stop music from a pirate radio station anchored in the North Sea 20 miles off the UK coastline called Radio Caroline. During daytime the signal from the 300 foot mast (claimed to be the highest ever construction at sea) although AM was exceptional and almost FM quality. Edited cassette tapes were then made. A few years later Melody Radio a London FM stereo station became the source, but no longer as the name and programming has changed to more chat, a good station though. I don’t consider that I was breaking the law as the cinema has an annual Performing Rights Society licence for playing recorded music. CD tracks or selections are now made onto mini-disc.Radio Caroline is broadcasting again by satellite, and the ship is now being refurbished. www.radiocaroline.co.uk
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