Scott D S
Supporting Actor
Just a few questions (some are geekier than others):
1. Are studios required to at least consult DVD producers/documentarians if their work is used elsewhere or in another medium? For example, if/when Disney releases Tron on Blu-Ray, are they required to contact you or can they do whatever they want because they own the work?
2. What kind of decisions go into certain things like packaging? I imagine it's mostly marketing and what will catch your eye on the Best Buy shelf. I have the Planet of the Apes collection on Blu-Ray (early Chanukah present for myself
) and while it's a great product and I am not picky with this sort of thing at all, I can only imagine the thought that went into this. "Yeah, we'll make the package too big to fit with the consumer's other discs and we'll make it really difficult to get the discs off the hubs."
On the other hand, as someone who was too young to get into laserdiscs, I can certainly appreciate the value in something like this.
3. Why, oh why, do studios release a title, then re-release said title, but leave off certain feature(s) from the first version? I'm thinking specifically of Jaws. We get a 1-disc, then a 2-disc (original mono!) but it's missing the trailer. I'd understand if space was an issue but still.
4. Re: trivia tracks. Who writes these, and what goes into researching them? I know Van Ling writes the Cameron trivia tracks (because he worked on the films) and the Okudas write the Trek tracks (because they're the Okudas) and others are written by authors and film historians, like PotA and Die Hard, but most of the time the work is not credited. Is it a DVD producer who compiles and writes them, or someone at the production company, or even some marketing person at a studio?
When I temped at MGM, I found the binder with the trivia track info for Fargo. It was written by someone at the company who produced the supplements and every entry was timecoded, cited, and cross-referenced. It was quite interesting.
5. Any progress on Free Enterprise II: The Search for Shatner (or whatever it was going to be called?)
1. Are studios required to at least consult DVD producers/documentarians if their work is used elsewhere or in another medium? For example, if/when Disney releases Tron on Blu-Ray, are they required to contact you or can they do whatever they want because they own the work?
2. What kind of decisions go into certain things like packaging? I imagine it's mostly marketing and what will catch your eye on the Best Buy shelf. I have the Planet of the Apes collection on Blu-Ray (early Chanukah present for myself
On the other hand, as someone who was too young to get into laserdiscs, I can certainly appreciate the value in something like this.
3. Why, oh why, do studios release a title, then re-release said title, but leave off certain feature(s) from the first version? I'm thinking specifically of Jaws. We get a 1-disc, then a 2-disc (original mono!) but it's missing the trailer. I'd understand if space was an issue but still.
4. Re: trivia tracks. Who writes these, and what goes into researching them? I know Van Ling writes the Cameron trivia tracks (because he worked on the films) and the Okudas write the Trek tracks (because they're the Okudas) and others are written by authors and film historians, like PotA and Die Hard, but most of the time the work is not credited. Is it a DVD producer who compiles and writes them, or someone at the production company, or even some marketing person at a studio?
When I temped at MGM, I found the binder with the trivia track info for Fargo. It was written by someone at the company who produced the supplements and every entry was timecoded, cited, and cross-referenced. It was quite interesting.
5. Any progress on Free Enterprise II: The Search for Shatner (or whatever it was going to be called?)
