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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mista Collins" data-source="post: 3525422" data-attributes="member: 13089">[sblock=SIN]Well, the cinema you described will be larger than the one I worked at. By the sounds of it, you are probably looking at a 20+ screen cinema.Number of Seats per Screen - varies per screen. Each theater will have auditoriums that have a smaller amount of seats (for movies late in their runs) and some with larger amounts of seats (for opening releases and/or big blockbusters). The smallest I've seen in a theater the size you are probably looking at is 140-160 seats. At the most you are probably looking at 500 seats per screen. The average is around 250-300.Back Office - I haven't been in the back of a movie theater that has had more than 12 screens, but I can tell you a few things I am sure that are uniform among most, if not all cinemas. In the immediate back you will general find a few doors. One or two leading into a concession stand (or more if there are multiple concession stands). One door into the manager's office (which sometimes has a door into the lobby). The back room will have your soda fountain machine, along with the extra tanks of Carbon Dioxide and syrup. You will have your bags of popcorn seed not too far from the concession door. There will be sinks for sanitary purposes (along for washing concession stand dishes like the butter dispensers and popcorn scoops). Add in a few ice machines so that employees can fill up the ice bins in the concession stand. The ushers will keep brooms, mops, and other cleaning supplies back here also. In the backroom, there will be a set of stairs leading up to the projection room.Projection Room - Depending on how the theater is laid out, the lay out of this room will vary. But in general is usually one giant open room (or a U-shaped room). You will have one projector for each screen. Nowadays most theaters are switching to digital projectors and you aren't seeing as many projectors using film. In the projection room of every theater I've worked at (all for the same company), you will find storage closets. This is where they will keep any holiday promotion/decoration stuff. They will store movie posters for upcoming films in these closets. And there will probably be one or two closets dedicated for concession stock (big boxes of candy, boxes or cups and popcorn buckets/bags). In the actual room are the projectors obviously, random tools for fixing the projectors and or maintenance at the theater.Film Storage -Film is usually not kept on location at the theater. The only film you will find at a theater is the film for the movies they are currently playing. Here is how the process for the company I was employed with. On Thursday afternoons (on occasion Wednesday nights), the film for new releases would be delivered in large metal can(s) that had individual reels in them. It would be the projectionists duty to take these reels and splice them together into one giant reel on a platter near the projector. Thursday night, the projectionist would also be responsible for taking down any movies that will no longer be playing. He would put it back in the proper metal film can(s) and they would be picked up one the next drop off of new releases occur. We usually left these near the projectionists desk until then. So you wouldn't see much film stored at the theater.Links for some Info<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_splicer" target="_blank">Wikipedia - Movie Prjector</a> So you know what most projectors look like. The single reel system (tower) is probably the most commonly used today.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_theater" target="_blank">Wikipedia - Movie Theater</a> Just a good spot for info on the history of theaters and some facts.<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/35mm-Movie-Theater-Film-3-REEL-CAN-HOLLYWOOD-FILM-CO_W0QQitemZ140116961647QQihZ004QQcategoryZ197QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Film Can - Ebay</a> Just wanted you to get an understanding of what I mean by Film Can.[sblock=SIN (again)]Feel free to use this info however you like. Create the theater how you want it. If it doesn't make sense to me, I won't say anything. I'm not that nit picky  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> [/sblock][/sblock]</blockquote>

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