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Author Topic: AMC Booth Procedures. Thomas Dieter Expert Film Handler Posts: 234 From: Yakima, WA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 03-10-2005 07:27 PM                     quote: quote: Will Kutler was the last to post required quote: Will Kutler privledge Doesnt make much sense to me... I don't see how it dosen't make sence. Infact, it makes total sence. If you are watching the movie, it's just like you going to a midnight showing of it. Now if they required you to fix any problems that there are with the print, then I would understand having to be on the clock. I have to say that the theatres that I have worked for have paid me to preview the show as I was the person that built the print. If anyone else from the theatre watched it, they were to be off the clock. Only makes sence to pay the person that built it to watch it to fix it when the film is done.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-10-2005 08:58 PM                     Cinemark used to pull that crap where they wouldn't pay the projectionist to screen the movie and interestingly enough used the same "priviledge" yet "required" tactic. I don't think they do that anymore though.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-10-2005 09:18 PM                        They didn't when I worked for them (1999-2003).  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-10-2005 10:01 PM                        If ANY company wants to insure proper presentation, they shoudl REQUIRE that all prints be screened, whether by a mamber of management, or by the operators, or by a staff member TRAINED at what to look for... Anyone who is responsible for checking a film during a screening SHOULD BE PAID TO DO SO. End of story. I'm not saying that ALL employees who WANT to watch the screening should be paid, but the one who will report any problems SHOULD be. In the end, you get what you pay for. Out of frame splices that the public sees on Fridays are nothing more than piss poor management, be it on the local level or on up the food chain.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-10-2005 10:06 PM                        I pay one person PER SCREENED PRINT. However, that person is required to fix any problems IMMEDIATELY. I am not going to pay someone to watch a movie, only to have the same missplice Friday morning cause they didn't feel like fixing it.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-10-2005 10:27 PM                     Mike, I quit Cinemark in Feb 1993. I think it was sometime early 1992 they started paying one projectionist to screen prints, but was under the impression that we were the exception and others theaters still weren't paying their staff. Again this is all 10+ years ago. Still, there was a time...  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-10-2005 10:36 PM                        I don't doubt it ...  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-10-2005 11:29 PM                        Mike, I somewhat agree with what you stated.. More often than not, my booth guys are busy breaking down while films are screened. The person being paid gets a radio.. and will contact the booth, who will take care of the problem. It simply isn't possible to have my booth fokls do it all.. build/break/screen every week. I onlyhave three guys and I split the approx. 90s/week between the three of them.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-10-2005 11:37 PM                        I was always in favor of late screenings. We didn't start screening our pictures until all of the prints were broken down. It also prevented some of the riff-raff (high school employees trying to bring friends, etc) from attempting to come to the screenings. I was never a big fan of "employee party" screenings ... the employees can come opening weekend (as long as the picture isn't sold out for that particular show - which was usually rare). I never strictly disallowed extra employees from screening, but the later it started, the fewer would show up. Usually, they would start around 1:30. I took the first film to be screened, as being salaried, I was "free" for payroll budget purposes ... and then would add one paid employee/manager for each subsequent movie that needed to be screened. If we had 5 movies ... I screened one ... and paid 4 other people to screen one each. They'd usually be on the clock until around 3:30 ... but it's my payroll budget.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-11-2005 09:05 AM                     quote: Thomas Dieter If you are watching the movie, it's just like you going to a midnight showing of it I realize that, but theres a big difference if I'm a customer or employee who decided to come watch a midnight show or if I'm an employee (booth or floor employee) who is being required to screen a print. I guess its my privilege to stay at work off the clock, when I can be at home asleep.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-11-2005 09:52 AM                    One person should get paid to screen each movie. The privilege is for all the other employees to stick around and WATCH the movie(s) too if they want to.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-11-2005 10:02 AM                     Hourly employees MUST be paid for any required work time, including previewing. This is federal law. Salaried employees are screwed, as it would be part of the job.  |  IP: Logged Chase Hanson Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 03-11-2005 03:02 PM                     I think there is a pretty big distinction in terms that is being lost here...in reguards to the translation of Corporate Policy (theory) and Theater Policy (practical). Policy requires that all prints be screened proir to demonstration to the general public, OR a sit in evaluation is done on the first showtime on the opening day (or something like that). By a booth operator, other qualified crew member (Crew Leads or Operations Coordinators) or a member of management. The practical application of this varies, at the 3 theaters that i know of, Screening duties were generally split between thursday teardown crew, Fridays build up crew; and Voluntary screenings be they Open Employee screenings offered by a member of the management team or Limited Privledge Technical screenings offered to booth operators to voluntarily attended. IE Me: Hey you wanna come in at 11pm and watch Willy Wonka... BO: OMG LYKE TOTALLY, JOHNNY DEPP IS SOOOOO HOOOOTTTT...can I bring my friend? She really likes Johnny Depp too. Me: Yeah that should be cool. And then i get a sterns talkin to from the Senior because I technically dont have the authority to permit non-employees to view non-public screenings.  |  IP: Logged Amanda Jones Film Handler Posts: 92 From: Indianapolis, IN, USA Registered: Aug 2005 posted 11-05-2005 01:37 AM                     I was searching for a different topic and came across this so I decided to add my two cents. Worked for GCC turned AMC and we NEVER screened prints. Once in a good while I was asked to screen prints but it was rare and it was always the crappy movies that we ended up not getting a single customer for. As for employee screening parties I know that the 3 AMC's here in town do them but at my theater now we don't. The manager screening the print is allowed to bring 2 people with them. Everyonce in awhile we will reward one of our staff a chance to screen a movie. The other night we were shorthanded on managers to screen movies so we allowed one of our employees to screen it.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Dieter Expert Film Handler Posts: 234 From: Yakima, WA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 11-06-2005 03:21 AM                     Wow, I'm glad that I saw this thread come up again. I just recently went up to an AMC theatre to watch Flightplan. I was actually there to see the opeening show of Doom, but due to other complications I was late, and had decided to go see the above. I purchased my ticket, and was not impressed by the digital display in the boxoffice with missing letters on shows. Having not had anything for breakfast, I bought a thing of Resees Bites [not the best of choices, but I'm at a movie theatre] and a large Sprite [I HATE COKE PRODUCT COMPANIES!!!!] This cost me more than my ticket . I waited for my friend who also got something to eat and drink, and proceeded to our movie. We were 30 seconds late or so as the first preview had started. I sat down, and looked at the screen, it was slightly blury. The preview ended, and it didn't get better. I mentioned that I would be right back, and went and told the ticket taker, and I quote: "Would you tell your operator to focus Flightplan?!" [<----- I told that to my manager, and she chuckled] They confirmed the movie and house it was in, and radioed to them. I went back in, and it was still out of focus, and sat back down in my seat. The preview was just about over, and during it's credits, I saw it become focusd. At the same time, I saw [I assume] a manager walk in and look at the booth, and then back at the screen a number of times. The movie was focused, and the manger left. The final preview I saw was the Cell Phone Policy trailer, which caught me off guard, and I thought someone's phone was going off, and I started to look for them. Then I saw on screen it was saying to turn them off or silent. From what I saw, I was not the only one that pulled out the cell phone to turn off/silence their phone. All in all, A good movie, slightly dirty, and fairly steady. AMC West Oaks 14 Ocoee, FL My rating of them. **/***** Their prices is what killed their rating. Never had I paid more for my concessions when purchasing 2 items.  |  IP: Logged

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