I did a Harry Potter trailer checks last night. I have done movie trailers shop b 4 and I have done movie trailers shop b 4. But the HP's checks were one to be reckon with.

I saw the shop on Wednesday, I did not want to do "First Showing". I ignored it. I kept waiting I am not a HP fan so it was not a movie I wanted to see. The first showing was on the board as late as Friday afternoon. I was looking for other shops for trailers. There was none.

Saturday morning I looked again. That was ok b/c then I could plan to do something esle in the evening.

At 11 in the morning, I looked and there was a Harry Potter movie trailer check. They pay was the usual. That was no problem. I looked for MY keyword-----Any showtime. And that was there. So I self assigned. Included in the details............"There will be a lot of multiple and interlocking prints. Please make sure you have enough partners and check all prints. Failure to check all prints will result in non-payment."

I ask a couple of people, but then I thought, who is paying for their admission? Not me, the cost is $10 for digital and $18 for IMAX.

I pulled the showtime schedule off the website. There was alot of showing. I figured at least half of them were in the same auditorium and it is Saturday nite. The HP movie is 2 and half hours long.

I do not want to see the Harry Potter movie. I am not a fan. Do the trailer check and go home.

It is ll:00am. I get off work at 3;30PM. I'll go home and take a nap and be at the theatre at 7:00pm. I did not over sleep, but I had to run and errand.

I arrived at 8 pm. A showing had just started. I will go to the next one, which was at 8:20. I showed my L of A, and asked for a schedules in each auditorium.

The next 2 1/2 hours I went upstairs, downstairs, upstairs, downstairs until 11:10 pm, the last showing. (Times after that would have been repeat theatres.) By the time the trailers were finshed in one theatre, there was 2 minutes b4 the next one would start. The place holds 18 auditoriums and an IMAX, and HP was showing in 8 of them.

The last showing on my schedule was 11:10. The first show I went to was not even over by the time My last showing had begun. (THe theatre did have a 2 and a 4 am showing,)

Generally I would stay to see the movie. But to get home at 2:00 am, submit an hour report amd go to work at 6:00am. NO NO NO NO.

A night of running from Harry Potter film to Harry Potter is the best shop experience I can imagine.

Imagine going down the escaltor and looking back up and the people who got on behind you are still at the top of the stairs.

Best shop experience ever huh?????

My legs/feet begs to differ.

Sorry it was rough night for you.

I was just being silly because I am a huge Harry Potter fan.

sojo917,

Before you accept future trailer checks, look online at the theater's schedule which is posted several days ahead of time on fandango.com.

Then you can decide if the showtimes are close enough together before
you accept or decline the assignment.

Too bad I had to work on Friday,
one theater was showing HArry P on 4 screens beginning at 10AM with only 30 mins between each showing. And I could have made $31.00 as 2 separate trailer checks from 2 different movie studios were posted.

Like I said thi swas Saturday and the presentation was Saturday. One does not have days ahead of schedule to look at projection times.

I am glad I got it done but.....will I do it again? I don't know maybe in July 2011 when Harry Potter Part 2 comes out.

what companies do movie trailer shops?

disneylvr Wrote:
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> what companies do movie trailer shops?


Check this forum board. Look under SEARCH. There are other posts that lets U know whom MSCs includes trailer checks.

I have only done one trailer check so far. I much prefer the covert movie jobs. I think its fun trying to hide in plane site all day. The last one I did was for "the social network".
Interesting how now when I log into facebook all I think about is the huge check I got for that job

I just don't get the trailer check thing --can someone explain it to me.
For example: 3:30PM today, I got the email begging someone to take this trailer check -- BIG BONUS -- ($5) Hurry...bla,bla,bla only good today 12-17.

I go to the site, where the guidelines state that you have to be at the 1st showing...of each movie.

Well, the 1st showing was long over. Not to mention, the cut-off to request was the day prior.
Plus, most movies overlap.

For this reason, I have never accepted shops from this company -- they never make sense to me.

Can someone school me on these checks??? Plus, how does anyone make money on these. $10, plus $2 for additional screens doesn't sound like allot of money to me - especially if you have to pay to get in.

Why R U paying to get in? Why aren't U showing mamgament your L of A? Pick trailers that have in the guidelines the keywords,"ANY SHOWTIME".

>>>>>"I go to the site, where the guidelines state that you have to be at the 1st showing...of each movie" <<<<<<<<

Generally it is one movie. and the different screens/Auditoriums is it playing on.

"FIRST TIME SHOWING" is also a midday to matinee showing. Trailers are mostly five to 10 minutes before the featureed film, So really they don't overlap.

A movies that starts at 8 and 9 are in two different screens. Get to the 8 at 730 and go to the 9 at 8 30, What's wrong with that?

I like trailers checks. The choice to see the movie is generally mine. In the beginning I was scared to stay and watch the movie. Now I make a choice. After my last check, if I want to see the movie I stay, if not I go home and submit my report.

Depending how close yor movies, one can do at least three different trailer check on any given Friday.

$10 and to $2 additional is not bad, when you look at. You're getting paid without having to come out of your pockets first. Plus the report is a 1 page and "what was the name of the trailers"?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/2010 04:54AM by sojo917.

DaScubalady,

If the first show check is not assigned, then they allow you to do it anytime that same Friday, and if it is still unfilled later, they will allow it to be done on Saturday. They also have some trailer checks for only Saturday nights between 8:00 PM-10.

You do not pay admission to enter, they give you a letter of authorization from the movie studio.

Thanks Arch Stanton --

You made it much clearer -- I went back and and saw the LOA.

What's still unclear, is that the movies do overlap. In this case, the IMAX show and the regular screen were 20 minutes apart.
I do a few movie shops here and there, mostly CS for the theatre, and have come to learn that trailers are 10 minutes. I have never experience 5 minute trailers.

I would have to do a 2 minute mile -- the 24 plex must be 2 football fields, with the IMAX on the 3rd floor, away from everything else.
What happens if I miss the 1st trailer on the 2nd screen?

Perhaps this is why no one took the assignment and they bonus-ed it by $10 -- that's double their regular rate; quite a bonus for this thrifty MSC, who usually thinks $2 is a "BIG BONUS..DON"T MISS OUT!"

The last thing that's still fuzzy Arch, is how do I communicate to this MSC that I would like to do a later showing and /or complete the next day? Just email the scheduler and hope they contact me back in time?
In my experience only the I/C schedulers work weekends; the big companies' schedulers have bankers hours.

Seemed too complicated, so I said, forgetaboutit.