Musings of an Idiot

Sprocket Projection School

It has been a very long week with crazy long hours and I also had the Cinema Projection course over the weekend which made sure I was caught up in the daily grind. The highlight of the weekend for me has been the 2 day beginner's course in Cinema Projection run by Sprocket Projection School - launched by Gina Dellabarca {who also runs Academy Cinemas}. The person who took the course was Phil Greig, who has worked with Peter Jackson and also worked across cinemas all across the country. He was a great teacher/knowledge sharer and was really passionate about projection and technology and workflows/processes and he was able to share all that in a language that everybody was able to understand and comprehend.

After the workshop I know the history of film projection and what a filmprojector is made of and how it works and as a bonus I can 'make up' and 'break up' film and I can thread a projector. Most of all I now have a better appreciation of the film making process and also understand the magic and complexities of working with film and can also see why film will eventually be used only for major blockbusters while everything shifts towards the digital realm. It will take time - maybe another 10-15 years {if not earlier} before the technology is wide-spread and delivers the cost benefits that will force all cinema theaters to eventually switch over to digital.

It is a definitely a good course and worth going through even if you don't intend on becoming a projectionist. I think they are thinking of running it again in August or something - if interested then drop in a mail to Gina at gina[at]academycinemas.co.nz

That's me for now.
Amit

Labels: Film Projection

posted by Amit @ 7:40 PM