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Author Topic: Universal Trailer Labels Jeff Skallan Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Littleton, CO, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 01-12-2003 04:44 AM                     What's up with Universal trailer labels? Just about every studio except FOX uses green labels for FLAT and yellow for SCOPE. For whatever reason, Universal trailer labels are the reverse of that. Is this intentional just to be different, or is this a mistake? There's been more than a few times while completing trailer changes that I'm in a hurry and I grab the wrong format. Do the colored labels reflect a set policy by SMPTE or is it just otherwise an agreed practice from all the other film studios?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-12-2003 08:33 AM                        There is no SMPTE standard for labels used on trailers, certainly not the color of the labels. SMPTE 301M specifies labeling printed on projection countdown leaders, which are usually not used on trailers.  |  IP: Logged Alex Grasic Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Toronto, ON, Canada Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-12-2003 10:01 AM                     Hey Jeff, consider yourselves lucky though, at least down there, you guys have different coloured labels distinguishing different formats. By the time they reach us in Canada, those labels are far gone (with some exceptions). They're all labeled in WHITE labels with the format sometimes quite narrowly labeled on the trailer label!  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-12-2003 02:16 PM                     Why are the titles crossed out?  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-12-2003 02:51 PM                     Yeah. why black out the titles? The two on the right are using TES' color-coding standard for the trailers they distribute. BV, Miramax, Dreamworks, Lion's Gate, MGM, Warner Bros. (who's trailers are handled by TES), Artisan, Sony, and a few other indies that have TES distribute their trailers use this color code. Paramount uses white labels for both formats. Fox uses the blue labels, Fox Searchlight uses either pink or yellow labels for both formats. New Line/Fine Line uses green, white, or yellow labels for both formats. Universal has used white, green, orange, and yellow for both formats. (Universal's trailers are distributed by the studio and not TES.) -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Jeff Skallan Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Littleton, CO, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 01-12-2003 04:33 PM                     quote: Why are the titles crossed out? I usually just throw them in a box and pick trailers at random. Doesn't everyone do this? Actually, I blacked out the titles in this instance just to draw attention to the film studios. My point though is that if the majority of studios use the same system for colored labels, shouldn't Universal do the same to avoid confusion? -Jeff  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-12-2003 05:31 PM                    Yeah it really sucks that they make you read those half inch tall letters that say FLAT or SCOPE.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-12-2003 10:46 PM                     quote: if the majority of studios use the same system for colored labels, shouldn't Universal do the same to avoid confusion? See my post above. Not all the studios use the green/flat and yellow/scope, only those trailers that are handled by TES do. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged

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