A few people actually show some imagination when doing the DVD supplement stuff -- Kevin Smith, Michael Moore, and the Coen Bros actually make owning a DVD player really worthwhile. The best has to be PLEASANTVILLE -- with Randy Newman giving scene by scene commentary on the score, and whatever else pops into his head. skip PS the term for those multiple streams is "layers" on 10/22/03 1:33 AM, Taylor McLaren at morakanabad@yahoo.ca wrote:
Sort of a late addition, but I can only seem to get online once or twice a week these days. Pooh.
MEEP! Alan Kayser wrote:
I believe that the DVD "behind the scenes reveal everything" phenomena (?) has had an effect on CD boxes of this sort. Not much is left to the imagination, just check out any DVD from The Matrix to The Lion King. Honestly, outside of the really detail-oriented niche imprints like Elite or Criterion, I haven't seen too many DVDs that actually *did* reveal anything useful about the movie-making process. Aside from the CGI-intensive flagship titles that provide brief effects documentaries, most of the supplements that I've seen have been electronic press kit excerpts, trailers, and the odd music video... whoo-ha. Even most commentary tracks are just tedious run-throughs of who had a cold when a particular scene was shot, but the occasional gem does turn up that justifies the technology (I love the friendly bull sessions on Elite's Re-Animator and Evil Dead sets). Does anybody know if DVD-Audio supports multiple streams (or channels, or whatever they're properly/technically called) in the same way? The idea of getting some of the people involved in putting an album together to talk about it, and releasing the results as something more substantial than a couple of sentences in "extended liner notes" could work out really well.
-me
PS: Way, way after the fact, the remastered The The albums that Sony put out last year sound brilliant. Dusk practically tears its way out of the speakers now... I'm a very happy bunny.
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