The Making of

Fox Theater - version 3.0
This gallery is just a quickly-thrown-together collection of pictures taken during the Making of Fox Theater v3.0. The goal is to paint the walls and ceiling a dark color with a flat finish. This makes for a better movie-watching experience in that light will not bounce from the screen to the walls or ceiling and back to the screen washing out the projected images. It also serves to focus your attention on the screen without the peripheral distraction of the room, itself. This in turn tends to heighten your suspended disbelief *.

The grid is organized in columns by position in the room with compass directions (which way you're facing in the room) across the top and in rows by project phase.

So, moving across a row is like looking around the room. Moving down a column is progressing through the phases while looking [roughly] at the same wall.

No effort is made to maintain chronology.

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Before
Curtains
Down 		       
Stuff Off
the Walls 		   
Crown
Moulding
Down 		 
Spackled      
Primer
 
Hallway
Painted		 
Moulding Sanded,
Holes Filled,
Painting Gray		 
Made a
Cable		 
First
Coat of
Black 		     
Second Coat,
Trim, Wires,
Start Ceiling
 
Clock and
Dr Pepper
Sign		 
Green and Black
Speaker Wire		 
Black Trim to
Hide Wire over
Fireplace		 
Ceiling Almost
Done - Needs
Touched-Up
Matrix Code
Stenciling
Begins 		           
Wired  
 
More
Stenciling		 
Got Hooks in the Walls
and Threw the Sheet
Up Temporarily		 
The Digital
Rain -DONE- 		<-- Best order to view:
pic 2, 1, 5, 4, 3.
 
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Before
(repeated)
After
(FINISHED) 		   
 
Logo
Screen		 
Enjoying the
Theater 		     


* "Suspended disbelief" is when the audience is completely captivated by the movie experience and is no longer aware of their real-world surroundings.

quoted from http://www.timefordvd.com/tutorial/SurroundSound.shtml -- 13 July 2006