1. Building
During the term, the building is open to the public 7 am to 9 pm Monday through Friday and noon to 9 pm Saturday and Sunday. All Carleton students, staff, and faculty with a valid One Card can access the building 7 am to midnight seven days a week. Cinema & Media Studies and Theater & Dance students have additional access (see below).
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b. lights
Just inside the main entrance, on the right side of the door frame as one walks into the space, there's a small recessed panel. The bottom right button is "cinema night" (dark, but with aisle lights for safety). The others turn on various lighting cues: mainly, spotlight in front of the stage, lights over the wide aisle on the floor, fluorescent work lights.
c. playing a movie
In the projection booth, tap the LCD panel once. It will turn on and read, "Welcome to the Weitz. Please press what you want to do." From the offer you a choice of projection or sound system only. (The projector has a warm-up time that can seem rather long if you just need to use a microphone.) If you choose projection, the next screen has a column of buttons along the right side of the screen selectthat allows you to select a video source, for example, "DVD." Insert a DVD or Blu-ray disc into the player and press play. Best practice: The only sure way to head off tech trouble lurking in a given copy of a film, is to watch it in its entirety on the system it's going to play on, with lead time enough to secure another if problems are found
Best practice with any projection for an audience is to watch programming in its entirety with lead time enough to deal with tech if trouble arises. This includes screening the actual copy of the movie on one of the cinema's Blu-Ray players and, in the case of presentation, previewing media such as Powerpoint from the machine it's actually going to play from.
d. talking
A handheld wireless mic is stored in the teaching station. This can be attached to the teaching station by a gooseneck stored in the same place.
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