The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 epic fantasy adventur film directed by Peter Jackson.Following the story of Bilbo Baggins as he accompanies Thorin Oakenshield and his fellow Dwarves on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.
As a 2013 film you'd expect the DVD menu to be of a much higher standard than the other two. In many ways it is however it also lacks a lot compared to the others. This is largely because like when the other came out there is a new technology out (blu-ray) that they are trying to push so the content of the dDVD's is very minimal. The main menu is very simple. A simple menu with four choices, play movie, scene selection, languages and special features. It also have a video on repeat showing big action sequences to get you excited. However there is no sound included on this so it is just repeating clips nothing to get your excited. The scene selection and languages are simple and as expected however the special feature though small has a lot of interesting stuff on it. When you click on special features a still image of Gandalf is in the background and vertical menu is in the middle with a few options. The first options is by far the most interesting. Like the first Hobbit film the is a small documentary following the shooting of the film. This mini little BTS is a really interesting film which adds to the DVD greatly and is the only real thing of substance on the DVD. The rest of the special features is pretty simple just with two trailers.
The DVD is very simple with little to do like a large number of modern DVD's. If I was to view the Blu-ray I am sure a lot more content would be there. As someone who is yet to switch to blu-ray the content of this DVD is very standard for a format they are slowly trying to replace. In my opinion is it a simple cleanly done DVD that does what it needs to do with out being particularly exciting.
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Monday, 9 June 2014
Queen shoot
During our creation of the DVD I had the pleasure of attending the Royal opening of Thornham Village Hall. I attended and captured the arrival and departure of The Queen assisted by my lecturer James Fox, Sean Rees, Ilze Vermane and Kieran Hudson. The shoot was a great success & a great experience. I also had the opportunity to work in conjunction with ITV sharing footage (I had shot ) with ITV to use in there afternoon and evening broadcasts. SpringboardTV were also featured in the Piece. I also took some photographs which were used by Radio Norfolk on there website.
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/story/2014-01-28/the-queen-opens-village-hall/
I then created a special feature of the day in which we shall include in the second version of the DVD which will be produced by David Rawlinson for the client and for sale to the general public via http://www.springboardtv.com/
How to create DVD menu and assets
First of all open the Compressor like last time. Open Final Cut Pro and click on 'File' then 'Send to' then 'Compressor'. Then you have to find a file called DVD:Best Quality 90 minutes,after that click on it and you should see two files 'Dolby Digital Professional 2.0' and 'MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass'. Just like last time select these two folders and drag them up and drop them in Sequence 1.
After this drop the two files in the Sequence 1 and right click on the file called 'MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass'(the one placed in Sequence 1). After that right click on the following file and select 'Destination' which will let you choose where you want to send/save the file.
Next step is to go to Inspector which is placed on the right hand side under Sequence 1 and change some settings. Take a look at Geometry and make sure that everything is correct. Go to Geometry then make sure that setting 'Crop to' is Crop to:Custom, then change Left, Right, Top and Bottom to 2.
Save the file again, then right click on the file placed in Sequence 1, then choose 'Destination' then 'Desktop' .
After this submit the file, click on 'Submit' which is above the inspector and underneath Sequence 1. Make sure that the 'Cluster' was set to 'Cluster:This computer' and that the 'Priority' was set to 'Priority:High'.
Next step click Submit and wait until it Submits Successfully.
If the file submits successfully you will see something appear in 'History' which is placed on the right hand side of the 'Inspector'. It shows the date of submission and that it was successful.
Next step is to Open DVD Studio Pro.
After that open DVD Studio Pro. click on 'File' then 'Import' then 'Asset' then choose files; 'Sequence 1-MPE.bps 2-pass.m2v' 'Sequence 1-Dol Professional 2.0.ac3' then click 'Import'.
We click on 'Graphical' and drag these 2 files up to 'Graphical' Sequence 1.
Then had to go to 'File' 'Save as' 'Save'.
Next step is to go to Final Cut Pro click on 'text' then 'Matte' then 'Color Solid' then 'Controls' then 'Color' and then 'Change the color' then click'OK' and then Drag and drop it to sequence 1.
The next thing to do is to change the colour, to do that; click 'Text',then again 'Text' then once again 'Text', then 'Controls','Font Color',then 'Change Color' and then change Alignment to 'left' then press 'OK'. After this click 'OK' then drag and drop the text to Sequence 1 just above the 'Color Solid'. Last step is to click 'set input' then 'save as' give the file a name,then 'save & output.
Sunday, 8 June 2014
How to use compressor
First of all open a Final Cut Pro project. Then you need to click File, Send to, then clicked Compressor. When the Compressor opens you have to find a file called 'DVD:Best Quality 90 minutes' in Settings, when you find the file you have to click on it and as it expands you will see two other files called 'Dolby Digital Professional 2.0' and 'MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass'. click on 'Dolby Digital Professional 2.0' and drag it up to Sequence 1.
After you have dragged the file called 'Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 up to Sequence 1, do exactly the same thing with 'MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass'.
After you've dragged both files up to Sequence 1 click on the second file in Sequence 1, and go to Inspector. Inspector allows you to change Video Format, Frame Rate,Aspect Ratio and also Field Dominance.
Next thing to do is click on Stream Usage to make sure that the Stream usage is SD DVD.
Click on Video Format and change it from NTSC to PAL. Then chang the Video Format to PAL, you will see Frame Rate automatically change from 29.97 to 25. You also have to change the Field Dominance from Bottom First to Top First.
Then click Quality in 'Inspector'. Quality option allows you to change the Mode, Average Bit Rate, Maximum bit Rate, and Motion Estimation.
Finally you have to choose Mode:Two pass VBR Best, it goes through every field and makes sure the quality is the best when it compresses the file, although the only problem with Two pass VBR Best mode is that it's slow and it takes a long time to compress. After you check that the Mode is Two pass VBR Best, change the Average Bit Rate from 6.2 to 6.8Mbps and change the Maximum Bit Rate from 7.7 to 8.0Mbps.Motion estimation had to be: Best.
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 American science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brother. After its DVD release, it was the first DVD to sell more than one million copies in the US, and went on to be the first to sell more than three million copies in the US. By November 10, 2003. The DVD was very advanced for its time including a lot of added extra's such as, A Behind-The-Scenes Documentary, Feature-Length Audio Commentary, Hidden Special Effects Documentaries, Multiple Angles and Music Only Track With Composer Commentary. The DVD also had an all new fir the time interactive DVD-ROM EXTRA Features which included, Story Boards, Web Access, The entire Website, cast and crew biographies and Special Edition Video.
The design of the menu itself is really impressive, incorporating a lot of the colours used in the film all with a very computerised feel. By this I mean when scrolling through the buttons it very much feels like a very old computer system which is really nice and a great way of allowing the audience to how ever small feel more a part of the film.
The commentry of this dvd is brilliant. Done by special effects supervisor John Gaeta, editor Zach Staenberg and actress Carrie Anne-Moss. I found what Gaeta and Staenberg had to say quite interesting, with the editor providing details on what it has been like to work with the directors and the effects supervisor provides some nice details on how the effects were produced. Moss doesn't say much at all after the first few minutes. There are a few pauses on the track, but I think that overall, this is an enjoyable and informative track. I wish that the Wachowski Brothers would be included on the track. I think that it had more potential and I would have liked it to have included more people, but as it is great.
The designers have worked very hard on creating a very in depth dvd with plenty to do and see. The attention to detail and added features add a lot the dvd and the documentaries and added content is great for the fans. This dvd is very much a fans dvd and of a very high standard.
In my opinion this dvd is brillliant and goes that extra mile that they didn't have too.
The design of the menu itself is really impressive, incorporating a lot of the colours used in the film all with a very computerised feel. By this I mean when scrolling through the buttons it very much feels like a very old computer system which is really nice and a great way of allowing the audience to how ever small feel more a part of the film.
The commentry of this dvd is brilliant. Done by special effects supervisor John Gaeta, editor Zach Staenberg and actress Carrie Anne-Moss. I found what Gaeta and Staenberg had to say quite interesting, with the editor providing details on what it has been like to work with the directors and the effects supervisor provides some nice details on how the effects were produced. Moss doesn't say much at all after the first few minutes. There are a few pauses on the track, but I think that overall, this is an enjoyable and informative track. I wish that the Wachowski Brothers would be included on the track. I think that it had more potential and I would have liked it to have included more people, but as it is great.
The designers have worked very hard on creating a very in depth dvd with plenty to do and see. The attention to detail and added features add a lot the dvd and the documentaries and added content is great for the fans. This dvd is very much a fans dvd and of a very high standard.
In my opinion this dvd is brillliant and goes that extra mile that they didn't have too.
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