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Topic: Outstanding film quality at SxSW this year
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Jason Whyte
Expert Film Handler
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Posts: 132
From: Victoria, BC, Canada
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 03-26-2009 10:51 AM
I know John Stewart who works at the Paramount is a member here so perhaps he knows the answer to this query, but this is also open to anyone who knows more about festival prints.
I had a great time covering SxSW 2009 this year, and one thing in particular I noticed was that the 35mm prints of titles like "I Love You Man", "Observe and Report" and "500 Days of Summer" all looked stunning projected at the Paramount in Austin. Focus and framing were flawless, but I also noticed fully clean prints free of debris and -- most notably -- lab splices.
Furthermore, none of these prints had traditional lab cues, rather hand-marked cues that looked either applied by one person at the studio or projection at the Paramount. This leads me to believe that these were specially made prints made just for this screening, and I could tell they were of a much higher quality than what I normally see at home (note: EVERY print has at least two or three lab splices).
Maybe it's a silly question, but are dye-transfer prints still made? Or are these just really, really high quality "show prints" made for this festival?
Jason [ 03-26-2009, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: Jason Whyte ]
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Bill Gabel
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From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA
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posted 03-26-2009 11:38 AM
Most Festival prints are Showprints and afew are answer prints. But after afew Festivals and Press screenings, Premieres they get banged up. As to the cues, the lab scribes the cues to those prints. The prints you get at your theatre, depends on what part of the food chain your on. The High Quality prints (EK, Showprints, Wet Gate, answer prints) go to the Studio, Top First Run Markets like New York City, Los Angeles and afew other markets, Premieres. The major studios make a select amount of these prints for each release. The regular release prints you see at your theatres are made in large runs at the labs. And cost less to produce. So the problems of lab splices and other issues are mainly from regular release prints. At the end of the year the studios hold or make extra Showprints for Academy and other Guild related screenings.
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