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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-14-2007 04:54 PM

I mentioned it briefly but Frank does allude to a good point.

You could write a good manual to teach YOURSELF something.
In order to write a manual for anything you have to know the subject forwards and backwards. The process of breaking down what you know so that you can put it on paper helps you fix the concepts in your mind.

It's not a complete waste of time to write a projection booth manual. You will gain something from it. You just need to have a sense of perspective about what you are writing and WHY you are writing it.

If you write a manual as a tool to teach yourself how to do your job better, that can only be a good thing. If you are responsible to teach others how to be a projectionist you can use it as a teaching aid. (As an adjunct to what you teach them.)

But if you're going at this as a catch-all manual that somebody is supposed to read and use you're probably better off pissing up a rope.

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 12-15-2007 04:48 PM

I actually did this in high school, when I wrote myself a "manual" for running the Sky-Vue D/I booth, back home in KY. It was the second booth I'd ran and had to have been around 1976. It was just so I'd remember everything, more than to teach anyone else. Complete instructions from memory, on how to power everything up (and wait 2 minutes for the Altec 287-W mercury vapor tubes to warm up before applying plate voltage), to chemical splicing, to threading, to trimming the lamps, to making changeovers. I had forty-some-odd handwritten pages with diagrams. I still have it somewhere.

Last time I read it, though, I got a few laughs over some of the misconceptions I had and assumptions I'd made.

Much like I do today. [Razz]

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