Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Getting the booth today

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Posted by Cody Martin (Member # 2523) on 10-02-2005, 10:02 AM:

I am so excited...the days of running out of the garage are over. Yesterday I purchases a 10x10 shed to use as my booth. This week we will be constructing the booth, and then over the fall i'll be doing all of the electrical, isulation, sound system work. This is my new booth until I graduate college :-). Anyone have any thing I should keep in mind while building the booth?

Thanks,
Cody

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 10-02-2005, 10:59 AM:

YES-- control the atmosphere wheather it be an air conditioner,
dehumidifier, or whatever, to keep everything from rusting.
John P. can make good reccomendations in this area. [Wink]

Good
luck on your project!

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-02-2005, 11:06 PM:

Not to be a "kill-joy" on such an exciting project as your own home cinema, (and congratulations on such a project..) but a 10x10 room is a little dangerous, especially if you're doing stereo with surrounds and all.

Should never have a room that can be divided completely by itself in size. If you could do some adjustments to get the room "unsquare" your sound problems will erase.

You'll have sound reflection problems and dead spaces with waves cancelling each other out when they bounce around and hit each other head on.

Good luck, one again. - Monte

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-03-2005, 02:46 AM:

Will it be Adamesque, Atmospheric, Thematic, or Movie-Theatre Deco?
Movie-Theatre-Deco is least expensive, but requires a much more completely-thought-out & unified design.

Posted by Cody Martin (Member # 2523) on 10-03-2005, 07:18 AM:

Thanks for everyones posts.

Monte-

I will be building a 10x10 booth. I do screening outside so the sound will not actually be in this building.

William-

I'm not sure i'm a theme for the booth yet. I was thinking about finding an old intermission frame and having that painted on one end of the building, but am not sure yet.

Well, yesterday we got the frame up, 2 parts of the ceiling and the back wall. Hopefully we can complete it wednesday and thursday :-)..woohoo.hehe.

Cody

P.S. I am planning on buying some old equipment from the nonprofit theatre i work at. They have some old Altec Voice of the Theatre equipment that still sounds great, and a crapload of old seats.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-04-2005, 12:57 AM:

I see - the building will house only the projector, the screen & seating will be outside.

Shoot, I was hoping for a movie-theatre-deco/industrial auditorium theme.

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 10-04-2005, 06:28 AM:

Remember the dehumidifier!

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 10-05-2005, 10:03 AM:

Best conditions for film handling are between 50 and 60 percent RH. Too dry (below about 30%RH), the film can have excessive curl and is more prone to static. Too damp (above about 70% RH) and the gelatin emulsion gets softer and more likely to be abraded, metals rust or corrode, and some electronic gear can be adversely affected.

Temperature is not critical. Between 20 and 25 Celsius is comfortable for most people, and cool enough for most electronic gear.