DVD Format Changing Movie-making

rgmoore writes "The Los Angeles Times is running an interesting article on the impact of DVDs on the movie making process. They briefly mention the possibilities of end-users being able to re-edit the movie (with a veiled reference to The Phantom Edit) but focus more on the way that it's starting to influence directors and producers during the course of making the movie."

Comments

Re:DVD & It's potential

[p3d0]

Good work, Nostradamus. I'm going to predict that, between now and June, the world's climate will gradually get warmer in the northern hemisphere and colder in the southern.

This is their idea of 'interactivity'?

[ikekrull]

Man, the film industry is going to get *killed* by the games industry in a few years, and it seems they don't see it coming.

Seriously, 'interactivity' is not about downloading a flick and laboriously re-editing it (a process of questionable legality in the curent political climate), it's about the viewer/audience being able to influence the content at 'run-time'.

DVD offers minimal interactivity, and everyone who has ever tried to 'interact' with a DVD knows this.

The moviemakers are just trying to talk up their pathetic 'interactivity' to make it seem like they aren't still just rehashing the same old shit and ripping off the viewing public over and over again.

Re:I dunno if the article mentions this

[zerocool^]

I have to document my trolling method -
the first part was simply a [p] [ul] [li] blah [li] blah [li] blah [/ul] and two blank lines.

Too many of those and they tell you that it's too few characters per line, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.

the next part, i was trying to page widen, which didn't work, but when i noticed that it didn't get me on junk characters or repetition, i went with it.

Basically i wrote random words, beginning each with / or //, randomly, then copied and pasted it a number of times.

The origional text string is here:
/Does /this //get /stuff /by /the /lameness / fil ter /cause /it /would /be /cool /if /it /did /i / /already //tried /cat /dev /random /but /too //m any /random //junk /characters //stuff /Does /this / / get /stuff /by /the /lameness /filter /cause /it / would /be /cool /if /it /did /i //already //tried / cat /dev /random /but /too //many /random //junk / characters //stuff

There we go!

That's ONE interpretation

[gilroy]

Blockquoth the article:

As audiences became acclimated to music videos' jump-cutting and nonlinear storytelling techniques, they were able to absorb information more rapidly and in different ways, allowing filmmakers to short-cut exposition and action without necessarily sacrificing clarity.

I suppose. Or maybe audiences just got desensitized to mishmash logic and gaping plot holes, because their attention spans were shrunken past the Schwarschild radius... I happen to believe that the influence of music video directors on mainstream media has been a disaster that's consigned nearly a whole generation of films to the dustbin of failed art.

And don't even get me started about the influence of advertisement directors....