Job Overview
Projectionists are responsible for obtaining the previous day's sound
and film footage, syncing them together, showing them during dailies,
and maintaining the projection equipment. On location, they move the
equipment, set it up, and break
it down each day.
"It takes about an hour and
a half to set up and about an
hour to break down," explains
Rex Teese. "I'm usually set up
an hour before dailies, just in
case anything happens."
Because all the footage cannot
be viewed at lunchtime, a
second round of dailies may be
shown at the end of the day.
"Plus, you've got second unit
going and they may have a dif-
ferent schedule than the first
unit. It's a good job. I get to sit there with the producer, the director, and
the editor, and listen to them talk back and forth about how the movie
will be cut together."
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JOB TITLE: PROJECTIONIST
(EDITING DEPARTMENT)
"A lot of editors
are what I call `closed
door editors,' meaning
they never want
anybody walking in.
But on Hannibal, every day Pietro [Scalia]
would bring us in and show us what he was
doing and ask us what we thought. We were
bouncing around ideas. He'd tell me what I
needed to know. He was a very open guy and
a very good teacher."--Rex Teese
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