RSA Cinema Survey Results

The results of the RSA Cinema Survey were presented to the General Council tonight. You can see the results here.

Winners of the RSA Cinema Survey Prize

The Housing Services Committee would like to congratulate Daniel Pino and Kristin Richardson for being the two winners of the $25 Visa Gift Cards that were given away at random to two people who took last month's RSA Cinema Survey. The survey results will be unveiled tomorrow evening at the RSA General Council meeting in 335 Shillman Hall at 7:30 PM. The results will then be put on the RSA website.

RSA Cinema Survey Closed

After over a week in the wild, the RSA Cinema survey has been closed off. We had over 2,000 responses. That means, if you took the survey and provided an e-mail address, you have around a 0.1% chance of winning one of the $25 Visa Gift Cards!

RSA Cinema Survey

Hi everyone,

Help us improve RSA Cinema (Channel 117 on Husky Cable)!

Take the RSA Cinema Survey by clicking this link:

http://www.studentvoice.com/neu/rsacinemasurvfl08

If you take the survey, you can enter for a chance to win a $25 VISA gift card! The survey ends Sunday, October 26th at 7pm. It takes less than 5 minutes!

Thank you for your time.

RSA Cinema Rebranding

Hi everyone! This is my first post but I wanted to tell you exciting news. The RSA Cinema Channel (117 on Husky Cable) is undergoing a revamp. In the next month we will be teaming with NUTV and adding their content to the channel. We hope to open the channel to more student content in the future. Therefore, our new name for the channel will be RTV.

Look for new updates in the future as we undergo this exciting change!

October 2008 on RSA Cinema

We've got new movies for October on RSA Cinema. The video below provides more detail:

October Movies

The Housing Services Committee has made its picks for RSA Cinema movies for October 2008. Here are the movies you'll be able to enjoy on RSA Cinema next month:

• Anchorman
• Crash
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Leatherheads
• Speed Racer
• Made of Honor
• The Forbidden Kingdom
• Baby Mama
• The Love Guru
• 28 Days
• Sex and the City

September 2008 on RSA Cinema

Watch the video below to learn about movies being featured on RSA Cinema this month:

The Past, Present, and Future of RSA Cinema

This summer the Housing Services Committee worked to develop a report evaluating RSA Cinema's past, current state, and looking forward at what needed to be done. We also set the stage for the creation of an RSA Cinema Manual and developed plans for advertising and promoting the channel. The full report is over fifty pages, and can be downloaded here as a PDF. Feel free to comment on the report, and look for the more formal RSA Cinema Manual next week.

This Month on RSA Cinema

We've got a video of information about the August movies, it's going to run on RSA Cinema between films in August

August Movies on RSA Cinema

In August, RSA Cinema will feature the following movies:

• The Bank Job (IMDB)
• Brick (IMDB)
• The Bucket List (IMDB)
• Flawless (IMDB)
• National Lampoon's Animal House (IMDB)
• Saving Private Ryan (IMDB)

If you have a movie request, be sure to tell us.

RSA Cinema Schedule Online

The movie schedule for the month of July for RSA Cinema is now available. You can view it here. The movies this month are Vantage Point, 10,000 B.C., Definitely, Maybe, Rambo, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Semi-Pro.

RSA Cinema Improvements

The Housing Services Committee would like to solicit your ideas on how RSA Cinema can be improved in the upcoming year. Please post comments about problems you have had with RSA Cinema, what you don't like, and what you want to see us offer.

Some of the feedback we already received has been about the odd starting times. For example, movies used to start at times like 4:08 PM or 9:43 PM. Now, all titles start on a quarter hour (:00, :15, :30, or :45). Also, in response to student complaints about long intermissions with just a screen saying "waiting to play," we have added student-created content in the time between feature movies, which is never more than 15 minutes.

Updated July Movies on RSA Cinema

We had to change the movies for RSA Cinema in July slightly. Instead of The Bank Job, we have The Spiderwick Chronicles Here's the new list of movies:

Vantage Point (IMDB)

10,000 B.C. (IMDB)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (IMDB)

Rambo (IMDB)

Definitely, Maybe (IMDB)

Semi-Pro (IMDB)

August movie requests can be made for the next three weeks at the RSA website.

Movies for July

In the month of July, RSA Cinema will feature six movies. They are:

Vantage Point (IMDB)

10,000 B.C. (IMDB)

The Bank Job (IMDB)

Rambo (IMDB)

Definitely, Maybe (IMDB)

Semi-Pro (IMDB)

August movie requests can be made at the RSA website.

July Movie Requests

RSA Cinema is a channel where students have a say in what movies are featured each month. In addition to new release titles such as The Eye, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Vantage Point, 10,000 B.C., and Rambo, the Housing Services Committee takes requests from students. Resident Assistants can also take advantage of RSA Cinema and request movies for programs in their buildings. This week the Housing Services Committee will be selecting movies for July. If there's a movie you want to see on RSA Cinema in July, make sure you submit your request by Tuesday at 4:00 P.M.

June Movies on RSA Cinema Video

In an earlier post, I discussed the new "this month on RSA Cinema" videos that we're running on the channel. The videos are now also going to be put on the Internet, thanks to YouTube. In RSA we also used YouTube to host the video from our winning Program of the Year presentation.

Each month we'll be uploading the movies to YouTube and then putting them here on the blog.

This Month on RSA Cinema...

As was mentioned in a post last week, when the month of June rolls around, six new titles will be available on RSA Cinema. While we'll have an ad in the Northeastern News, we'll also have information about the month's titles on RSA Cinema itself.

In the past when no movie was playing on RSA Cinema, you would see a screen saying "WAITING TO PLAY" and then the name of the next movie and the time. Rather than have this boring screen display for the entire period of time between movies (less than 15 minutes), we'll be running a short video with the names of the titles during the month, and information about the movie's genre, a brief description, and a list of major actors/actresses in the film. Each month when the movies on RSA Cinema changes, we'll update this video to give information about the new movies.

A big thanks goes out to RSA's Public Relations Officer and member of the Housing Services committee, Sarah Huyck, for throwing the idea out there and helping to creating the June movies video and developing a template for future months.As mentioned previously on the Housing Services Committee blog, if you want to request a movie for RSA Cinema you can do so on the RSA website.

June Movies

If you haven't heard of RSA Cinema, it is a HuskyCable channel (#117) that the Resident Student Association runs and controls the content of. Each month we are able to show a certain number of feature-length films, including new release titles such as The Kingdom, Cloverfield, or Atonement and classics such as Forrest Gump or Field of Dreams. In addition, the channel can feature student-created content, announcements, and educational content and can be of great use for student group, Resident Assistant, and Hall Council programming on-campus.

The movies that will be featured on RSA Cinema during the month of June will be:

• Lars and the Real Girl (imdb)
• I'm Not There (imdb)
• The Great Debaters (imdb)
• The Golden Compass (imdb)
• Untraceable (imdb)
• First Sunday (imdb)

For more information about these titles, click on the "imdb" links to go to the movie's page on the Internet Movie Database.

If you have a suggestion for a movie for July, submit your request here.