Comments on: The Animation Show

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:51:43 +0000

so I just watched this (I’m a bad theater owner) and I have to admit, I still hate short films. I think the only one I liked was the paintball one because it was hysterical, but other than that, I found them all trite, tedious and, for the most part, inane.

By: libi

libi — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:33:12 +0000

Ben: You can take every bit of criticism re: your projection with a grain of salt, because I really am spoiled. However, The Animation Show isn’t the only thing to have been matted poorly. Also, you really can fix almost all of the screen problems by putting up black felt behind the screens. I’ve had to do the same.

I really, absolutely appreciate every bit of work you guys do. I swear. I am just nitpicky and obnoxious.

By: Now For Wrath/Now For Ruin

Now For Wrath/Now For Ruin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:15:15 +0000

Eh, You’re not spoilt rotten. You just know there’s more to projection than throwing an image onto a screen. It’s hard not to comment on projection, especially if it’s digital vomitus. real projection is a lost art for sure.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:13:10 +0000

Usually I just ignore criticism I take issue with, but since we’ve met and chatted a little I feel comfortable enough to speak my mind.

When opening an independent theater, sometimes people have to do it on a budget just to make it fly at first. And because of those budget constraints some compromises are necessary. Now 95% of our films are on 35mm. The other 5% on digital. Since we don’t have a lot of money for auto-matting and silver screens we needed to form some priorities. So we chose to format our theater for 35mm with limited digital. Otherwise we would not be open due to the extra 100 grand that would be necessary to make an sufficient digital system.

Second, The Animation Show is in about 10 different formats, so regardless of our formatting flexibility there would still be some shorts in little boxes on the screen and others that fill the whole thing.

That’s my rant. If you want more info, I’ve got more, but I’m already kind of sick of typing. But we will see you next time.

Ben