The Regal Cinemas Openings

(NOTE: THIS WAS MY ORIGINAL POST FOR THIS WEEK THAT I FORGOT TO POST)

When we go the the movie theater we always get a little promo telling us to observe the various rules of the theater. But one of the main things exhibition houses push are their promos inviting movie goers to visit the concession stand.

 2D Animation

Special Guest Star Promotion
other 90s policy opening

Going to the movie theater as kid one of most memorable promo movie theater openings was Regal Cinema's 1990s movie train.

1990s Original 

At this point in time Imax was available only in major cities and 3D films were a few decades away from making a major comeback in major theaters. But as you can see from this earlier version of the opening this opening looked almost like sort of 3D roller coaster experiences you'd get in some of these indoor amusement parks. This opening played on Regal Cinema screens until the Fall of 2003. 

2011 Remake

In my investigation of Regal Entreatments' openings, I was unable to find exactly how they were able to create one of my favorite nostalgic movie openings. I did however discover that the main reason they brought back the train opening. Around 2009 this theater had made a deal with Sony upgrading its sound systems and screens to 4K projectors. In anticiaption of these updated projectors, Regal brought back its' iconic 3D coaster to match with the full power of the new technology.

First blog post for the class... Here it goes!

So I decided to make this post about something that Arturo mentioned towards the end of the class that really sparked my attention: Render-farms. It peaked my interest because I LOVE computer stuff and hearing it made me think about it and want to look more into it. So away we go.

Doing some research online about what a Render-farm is, I come across a slew of images.Taking a look at these, clearly the range in size from small enough to fit into filing drawers or large enough to blow your mind. That's what they would look like. However, when you hear the words "render-farm," I'm sure you're curious to know what it actually is. The simple definition is a large number of computers all wired together in order to render large videos. A more technical definition, according to Wikipedia, the higher the quality of the images and videos, the more processing they would need to keep that quality. When an image needs more processing, clearly more time is going to be needed. So in order to shorten that time, having more computing power does just that. The more computers you have and the more power you have in each of said computers, the faster the rendering will be completed WHILE keeping the quality that you want.

So in retrospect, if you want a feature length film that is shot in 1080p to be finished by a deadline in a week, a Render-farm is most definitely going to be in need.