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Why "Special Features" Suck Now
Modern special-features don’t feel very “special.”
This video essay gets to the bottom of why DVD extras became a lost art form, as well a new medium that picked up its slack.
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Credit:
-Goodbye (Piano cover by Pauliano)
-Kirby's Dreamland 3 Grassland Stage 1 remix (Artificial Ignorance)
-Video Game (cover by thatbeet)
-Be Thankful for What You Got instrumental cover (FERGUNIZED)
-At Least It Was Here instrumental remake (Y.L.A. Productions)
-All Eyes on Me (Piano cover by Pauliano)
Chapters:
0:00 the golden age of special features
1:00 why they don’t feel ‘special’ anymore
1:40 special features mirroring creative process
2:23 new hollywood model
3:32 lukewarm production = lukewarm special features
3:39 blade runner was not fun
4:08 LOTR was fun
4:51 MCU ‘family’
5:36 the thing that filled the special features void
#videoessay #lotr
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By Modern special-features don’t feel very “special.”
This video essay gets to the bottom of why DVD extras became a lost art form, as well a new medium that picked up its slack.
Socials - I rarely use them but what if one day I do? How can you miss out on the idea of a potential tweet from a random YouTuber you barely know?
► https://twitter.com/johnnyrmarks
► https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrmarks
Credit:
-Goodbye (Piano cover by Pauliano)
-Kirby's Dreamland 3 Grassland Stage 1 remix (Artificial Ignorance)
-Video Game (cover by thatbeet)
-Be Thankful for What You Got instrumental cover (FERGUNIZED)
-At Least It Was Here instrumental remake (Y.L.A. Productions)
-All Eyes on Me (Piano cover by Pauliano)
Chapters:
0:00 the golden age of special features
1:00 why they don’t feel ‘special’ anymore
1:40 special features mirroring creative process
2:23 new hollywood model
3:32 lukewarm production = lukewarm special features
3:39 blade runner was not fun
4:08 LOTR was fun
4:51 MCU ‘family’
5:36 the thing that filled the special features void
#videoessay #lotr