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Author Topic: Movie Trailer Volume Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 09-04-2003 09:19 AM                    I'm with you on Seabiscuit, Bobby. That feature has the "Intolerable Cruelty" trailer in front of it, and I have to turn it down a full 3 DB on the SDDS to avoid complaints. Then the feature gets turned back up. I also noticed that if you play Seabiscuit at reference level or slightly higher, the audience cheers and claps during the War Admiral race. Pretty cool! But changing the volume for every show IS a royal pain in the ass.  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 09-04-2003 10:21 AM                        If the trailers are detracting from the presentation, why not remove them? If the studios realize that their ads aren't being shown because audiences are complaining, maybe some action will be taken. I rarely hear trailers in analog any more, so I haven't noticed a similar problem with the loudness of trailers. Someone brought up the Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer, and that one is quite interesting in its use of the discrete channels to get its point across...  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-04-2003 02:49 PM                     Brad I'm sure your right about nothing being done by that group on trailer volume. Seems to me, though, if alot, and I mean alot of us complain loud and often just maybe something will happen. Does anyone know how to get to the top instead of dealing with a group. Boycotting their trailers won't work because our head office tells us which trailers to run on each feature. We can't just say the trailer is too loud and we (projectionists) refuse to play it. Yes, automation is the ultimate answer, but I'd rather have that money spent on wages etc. Let's all complain often and loud for as long as it takes and see what happens. On another subject, I heard Kodak patents came about on this date in 1888. Happy birthday John. (Hope I got the year right!)  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-05-2003 01:48 AM                     quote: If the trailers are detracting from the presentation, why not remove them? If the studios realize that their ads aren't being shown because audiences are complaining, maybe some action will be taken. That would only have a chance of working if you owned your own theater. Even then, some distribution agreements are going to wind up forcing you to run a lot of those trailers anyway. Plenty of checkers get in there to verify that you're running the proper trailers. A manager has little to no say at all when it comes to running commercials and movie trailers in cinemas owned by movie chains like Loews, Carmike, etc. The main complaint I hear from staffers is not so much the problems of trailer volume in this regard. The big problem is cramming 20+ minutes of trailers and commercials onto a show, being expected to still get in 4 or 5 shows a day and then have only a couple minutes to get the auditorium cleaned and ready for the next audience. With that kind of thing in mind, it makes me appreciate that chapter forward button on my DVD remote. I can quickly chapter past all those trailers Disney tries to force on you with their DVDs. Too bad you can't do that at the theater.  |  IP: Logged Jim Leko Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Redondo Beach, CA, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 09-05-2003 05:42 AM                     At least there is no NCN pre-show for Disney movies. When Harry Potter was out, our NCN pre-show was at 10 minutes. Then near 20 minutes worth of trailers.  |  IP: Logged R. Andrew Diercks Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Marion, Iowa (In the middle of everywhere) Registered: May 2003 posted 09-05-2003 08:57 AM                     I agree with all of this as well. Seabiscuit has been the worst because it's a conversation movie which makes it more noticeable. BTW did anyone notice the irony in Bobby who started this worthy thread. He is sitting directly in front of many large speakers holding a guitar in his photo. Just thought that was interesting, but he brings up a very good topic.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-05-2003 06:20 PM                     Yeah but my big speakers are tube amplified! Tube distortion: good and crunchy. Optical track distortion: imagine Roseanne Barr screaming in your ear during a mudslide. Yeah, very bad!  |  IP: Logged

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