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Feb. 12th, 2004 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingWow. I had a weird dream last night.
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tahlemaryn on Tuesday, she was talking about her job as a movie projectionist. This was a job I'd been interested in ever since filmbuff had talked about it. The difference now was that Tahlemaryn described some of the actual technical aspect of it, and my techie brain went WHEE!
Last night I dreamt that I was doing a trial shift as projectionist, but it was ridiculously complex. There was a board, about the same size and shape as a lighting board (for those who know the Theatreworks board, one like that). It controlled just about everything. There were a set of sliders for dimmers (or "shade" as my dream called them), and two different sets of sliders (about four sliders per set) that controlled the lights. I don't know the difference between the two sets of sliders. I was too busy trying to memorise the layout of the board. There was this weird verticle disc drive in the middle of the board, where the soundtrack CD went, and another disc drive (for 3 1/2 inch floppy) on the left hand end, which I can only assume was for saving your settings. That's what the drive's for on a lighting desk. There was some big button (I don't know what it did) on the top left of the board. And this is just the part of the board that I learned how to use.
You also had to thread the actual film through the board (WTF? I know), underneath where the soundtrack went, so you had to thread the film first. The film getting twisted, but now I'm awake, I don't see that as so much of a personal failure as it is a totally fucking stupid way for my brain to decide to run things.
Anyway. So if theatre projecting was anywhere near as hard as it was in my dreams, I don't want to know. *grins*
When we were talking
tahlemaryn on Tuesday, she was talking about her job as a movie projectionist. This was a job I'd been interested in ever since filmbuff had talked about it. The difference now was that Tahlemaryn described some of the actual technical aspect of it, and my techie brain went WHEE!Last night I dreamt that I was doing a trial shift as projectionist, but it was ridiculously complex. There was a board, about the same size and shape as a lighting board (for those who know the Theatreworks board, one like that). It controlled just about everything. There were a set of sliders for dimmers (or "shade" as my dream called them), and two different sets of sliders (about four sliders per set) that controlled the lights. I don't know the difference between the two sets of sliders. I was too busy trying to memorise the layout of the board. There was this weird verticle disc drive in the middle of the board, where the soundtrack CD went, and another disc drive (for 3 1/2 inch floppy) on the left hand end, which I can only assume was for saving your settings. That's what the drive's for on a lighting desk. There was some big button (I don't know what it did) on the top left of the board. And this is just the part of the board that I learned how to use.
You also had to thread the actual film through the board (WTF? I know), underneath where the soundtrack went, so you had to thread the film first. The film getting twisted, but now I'm awake, I don't see that as so much of a personal failure as it is a totally fucking stupid way for my brain to decide to run things.
Anyway. So if theatre projecting was anywhere near as hard as it was in my dreams, I don't want to know. *grins*
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Date: 2004-02-11 08:57 pm (UTC)Hope I didn't put you off a career in projection on Tuesday. In actual fact it is more WD40 and ad-changes than wrap-arounds and buggered aperture plates ...
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Date: 2004-02-12 01:55 am (UTC)I was put off by the dream, because I'm used to having something explained to me briefly and being able to muddle through reasonably well. That didn't happen with Nightmare Theatre Desk Of Death!!(TM) *grins*
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Date: 2004-02-14 08:22 am (UTC)