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Topic: create your own screen size
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-10-2005 11:30 AM
If you are making this for your own personal screening room, then you pick the screen size that you feel most comfortable with. But for a commercial situation, why go with a screen that patrons will come out of the theatre saying "Gee, that new theatre has a screen that's "average?" Go with a size that will wow them. You've got a big enough room that those who don't like peripheral vision size screens can sit further back. But those like me who want the screen to fill just about to the edges of my vision field, bigger works. And it never hurts to be able to say in your advertising, "...on our giant CinemaScope screen" rather than "...on our screen that's about the size of what you've got in your home theatre."
And of course, common height is absolutely essential for a professional presentation. Movable top/bottom masking is a terrible compromise that only theatre owners are ok with, never directors and cinematographers and was devised only for those boxes which were built before the introduction of anamorphic wide screen; any build that is newer than half a century old should have been designed with a wide enough proscenium to accomodate what it was built for, i.e, to show movies, including anamorphic films without the need for compromise. Wide screen movies are supposed to get WIDER dagmabit, not smaller.
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