Movie Theater Advertising Slides
Many Movie Theaters across the USA use our 35mm color slides for advertising before the feature films begin. It's an economical way for their local advertisers to reach local customers. Theaters do this for every film, regardless of budget - both small budget local films and even huge blockbusters have advertising before the show begins.
Some Movie Theaters try to use laptop computers and video projectors, but that equipment is an expensive alternative when you consider the costs involved. You would have to sell a lot of advertising to cover those expenses, and the expenses will have to be repeated in the future when it becomes obsolete in a couple years. 35mm slide projectors are an inexpensive alternative and you can recoup your equipment investment very quickly. Slide projectors have been around for decades, they're low-tech and they have never become obsolete.
Recently, our local IMAX theater went back to slide projectors and 35mm color slides because our slides have 4 times as many pixels as the best video projector showing PowerPoint "slides." Our slides are 4 times sharper than PowerPoint's blurry, washed-out images and the text on our real slides is razor sharp. If you took an existing PowerPoint "slide," had a 35mm color slide made from it, then projected them side-by-side you would be amazed by the difference in quality and sharpness. The blurry PowerPoint text would be very smooth and the washed out PowerPoint pictures would look fantastic on real slide film.
If your theater has 10 screens then you can have 10 slides made for only $25.00 ($2.50 each). If you have 10 screens and 10 advertisers then you could receive our lowest price of only $1.49 per slide. We offer quantity discounts and any quantity of originals and duplicates can be used to receive the discounts.
Tips for creating the digital images for movie theater advertising slides:
- Create a horizontal (landscape) colored background measuring 4096x2732 pixels at 372 dpi, if you want to fill the 35mm rectangle entirely. For a wide screen, use 4096x2048 pixels at 372 dpi. Or use PowerPoint on the last bullet point below.
- Avoid a white background because it will glare at the audience in a darkened room. A dark background is best. Avoid black because black projects as no light on the screen. Use cool colors like dark blue, royal blue, dark green, etc. because cool colors receed into the background.
- Add light colored text to the image but avoid long lines or paragraphs because reading time is limited. Use short phrases instead.
- Add multiple photos to the image because people are very visually literate. Photos are memorable and they instantly get your message across.
- Save your images as a JPG file or a TIF file with IBM byte order and LZW compression, and then upload them to us. Avoid sending native Photoshop files (PSD) and PDF files because their layers do not print properly.
- You can also easily design your slides using PowerPoint. See our PowerPoint link on the left for PowerPoint tips. You MUST set the page size in PowerPoint to design to the proper rectangle. Click the Design Tab, click Page Setup on the left, click slides sized for 35mm Slides. UNLESS the theater has a wide screen. If so, choose a custom page setup and make the page two times as wide as it is tall.
Examples of Movie Slides:
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