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Topic: How does a film print cure?
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 12-26-2004 03:44 PM
Festivals...UGH! Just about every one of them will trash your print. Some tips and answers:
*First things first, find out if the festival can handle large 6000 foot reels. If so SEND IT THAT WAY! Don't give them the option of scuffing up every reel change by letting them splice and disassemble them.
*Does the festival run platters or changeovers? If platters, make sure there is plenty of extra tail leader on the last reel (at least 30 feet). Ideally bring the print in on a Goldberg platter reel. Yeah this sucker will cost you $350ish, but it is WELL worth saving your expensive print to not let them do any loading or unloading of it. If you bring the print pre-built on a platter reel, make sure there is 100 feet of head leader on the beginning of the roll.
*If the festival is going to run changeovers, this is generally a better sign except for your reel changes. To prevent the ends of your reels from becoming crusty and dirty, put tons of head and tail leader on every reel. (Seriously, like 50 feet!) Remember, the head leader must have framelines throughout the entire stretch for this to work. The idea is to put so much on there to FORCE them to thread up and "motor down" rather than putting "the 8 in the gate", because that WILL get the ends of your reels dirty! The extended tail leaders are so the projectionist can do his changeover and walk back to the outgoing projector still running, rather than letting the tail slap and sling oil from the almost always leaky antique projectors found at changeover festivals.
*Also regarding changeover festivals, does your print have properly placed changeover cues? If not, you better add them yourself...in the correct positions, with a proper marking tool. Otherwise you'll cry when you see what kind of slash marks the print is returned to you with.
*FilmGuarding it before you send it out would be a good idea. Blasting it with a large lamphouse would help it "toughen up" faster.
*A note in the cans certainly wouldn't hurt either, to the tune of not cutting off ID frames and "this print has been 100% inspected before being sent to your X festival and you will be held responsible for ANY damages found on the immediate inspection following your playdate". The note needs to be dated, very specific and personally signed to attract attention.
Just remember, your print will in all probability come back either trashed or slightly abused in some form or another. I've only time I have seen and/or heard of one festival that this has not happen at was the festivals or screens I was running. (No I'm not being arrogant, this is just something I have seen over and over. Prints get trashed at film festivals!)
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