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Topic: Projection as a career?
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Ben Wales
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Southampton. England
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 09-30-1999 05:31 PM
There is a general shortage of GOOD projectionists everywhere, a lot have left the industry, mainly due to poor pay and bad working conditions, it is a sad fact in this part of the film indudustry that projectionists are poorly paid.My advice if you want to earn a good living and enjoy the job, try to work for some kind of Art House cinema that is Govenment funded , the work is varied they usually pay good rates or a good circuit owned cinema chains, while they are still out there, forget the 'Warehouse' style Pop corn film factories!. The more experience you can get, the better chances of promotion.
the best payed projectionist jobs is in Preview Theatres or a Technical Manager or a projection engineer. The BKSTS in the UK last year produced a well written Projectionist Training manual which is worth investing in.
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Rick Long
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 759
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-07-1999 10:35 PM
I agree with Stephen. If your passion is motion pictures, you would probably be happiest in a smaller theatre (preferably a single screen - at least to start). I find, that the more screens you have to run, the more detached you become from the performance. Don't get me wrong. The people who run these giant multiplexes work hard for their money (even Joe),  but their attention to performance is divided amoung all these screens. (If ever I have a nightmare about the trade, it involves being a relief projectionist in one of these places, and being unable to find one or two of the booths.) The job, as some projectionists have described it to me, becomes one of working in a "film factory". I don't know if I could take the stress of running one of these installations. I don't think I'd want to try.
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-12-1999 05:52 PM
After you do it a while it's easy to run many projectors. In fact, after a while anything else can get boring!When my theate opened, there was 1 'guy' for every 2-3 projectors. (17 screens)
After a week or two, about HALF of them washed out to the usher and concession depts.
We ran with 3 people in the booth for about the next 6 mos. and for the rest of the year we had 2 ppl. Now, one 'guy' opens the booth about an hour before 1st show. (12:30) The next guy doesn't come in till 2:00. The "opener" goes home at 6:00 and a "closer" comes in to help the 2:00 guy until he goes home at 10:30. After that the closer is solo for the rest of the night. (S)he has to clean all the machines and shut down at the end of the night. Anybody who's "compentent" should be able to run 10 screens. (My opinion) As far as status boards and timers... never used 'em.
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