1) You should keep the same lens ratio (ie scope/flat) for the whole print -meaning a couple of flat and a couple of scope trailers.-Yes or No

2) Do you normally try to accompany the same distributing companies trailers on that same print. -Yes or NO

3) Is there normally an order as to placing them on the print: ie by release date or any other fashion. -Yes or No

Any other info I may have missed please add it to my list.

Thanks

1 - If the film is flat, play flat trailers, if the film is scope, play scope trailers.

2 - This step is cut out from me, as I get "Trailer Commands, er Requests" from the home office - I simply play what they wish. Basic guidlines - Never play more than one trailer from any film company, except the one who distributed the movie, then play the attachment and one other, also never play fewer than 5 trailers per print.

3 - order is insignificant - it'll get changed around as you add new trailers, etc.

2. Cinemark gives a "request" with mandatory and alternate titles. I believe the rule is as above. No more that one or two from the same company.

3. Again, order unimportant although I like to place the attached at the end of the trailers just so that the trailer checker has to watch the whole thing just to verify that we put it on.

Then play your policy trailer if applicable, followed by the appropriate digital snipe.

House lights should be cue-ed to fade to black simultaniously with the last "subwoofer pulse" on the Dolby "Canyon" snipe.

"Canyon" is (was) the best of the Dolby trailers. Ken, why did they stop printing that one!?

2)the accompaning trailers and request forms are often an attempt by a company to get their trailers run on a film or in a theatre they have no agreement with. as a rule i dont put on anything the man downstairs doesnt tell me to.

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Only one of our plexes has automatic turrets, so all the trailers are in the same format as the feature.

Our policy states that we play 7-10 minutes of trailers (including the attached one, if applicible) which usually means 3-4 trailers including the attched one.

I do my best to place trailers that are appropriate for the feature, no family trailers with R-rated films and no 'hard PG/PG13' or R-Rated movie trailers with G films. Sometimes the attachments are inexplicable, case in point was Sony's asinine decision to attach 'Mirror Has Two Faces' on 'Fly Away Home' we got tons of complaints about "the preview with Jeff Bridges and Barbra Streisand Talking About Having Sex"...obviously it was removed soon after. I also seem to remember Warners attaching 'Quest For Camelot' and 'Space Jam' trailers to some R-rated titles back in the day... enough of this rant...

Last thing I do is place all the trailers that are on the feature's DTS disks LAST. This way all the analog trailers play in analog and then we switch into DTS for the remainder.

Now we always program the same format. My booth isn't near as automated as the last one. We have manual lenses and manual masking.

We are careful only to program films we are going to get or films we might get. If the competition gets one of our films, we pull the trailer quickly.

We try to place trailers for films we are currently playing near the front so we can remove them easily. We have a shortage of trailers so we play cross plugs for are other screens. That said we try never to program more than three. I like trailers as much as the next guy but nobody remembers the middle trailers. After too many trailers it all becomes noise.

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1) You should keep the same lens ratio (ie scope/flat) for the whole print -meaning a couple of flat and a couple of scope trailers.

If the feature is flat, we run only flat trailers - scope; only scope trailers. The zipper does not close when the turret rotates; that's why we do it that way.
I have yet to find out "who" is responsible for this: the turret control box on the Simplex, or the automation.

2) Do you normally try to accompany the same distributing companies trailers on that same print.

No, we want to advertise all studios films we might get, on any film we are running. We mix them all. Of course, we're not going to put on a trailer for "Shaft" followed by one for "Thomas and the Magic RR."

3) Is there normally an order as to placing them on the print: ie by release date or any other fashion.

No, since they are added to and/or changed every week, it would be too much to remove and insert certain trailers at certain locations. If the trailers are *generally* for similar films, it usually shouldn't matter.

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