Just saw a bit of the new Audie & The Wolf DVD being put together by the producers. It was authored at Titra Film in Glendale. I’d initially offered to do the authoring, but this year’s workload has been way too heavy for me to take on designing a full DVD release, especially knowing my penchant for going overboard with DVD features like I did on the Bleak Future release. The Audie disc is a DVD9, which means it holds more space than the usual DVD5, which means they had to compress the HD LESS to fit on the disc, which means it’s a good quality picture for the movie itself. Plus, the audio is 5.1 Surround, with the option of going simple stereo. The only other features are Spanish subtitles and Closed Captions, Scene Selection with motion menus (all the motion menus on the disc get rather annoying actually), and a Behind The Scenes video and a Deleted Scenes video that I hurriedly cut together a few months ago.
The Deleted Scenes contain the original Rachel/Rina scene as Rachel comes home with the Wolf, an extended Jane and John dancing scene, and the original Father Bailey ending where he tries to exorcise the Wolf. I cut that out because it just felt a bit flabby, despite the great performances. The artwork all over the menus, and presumably all over the package itself, as I haven’t seen it yet, will be Miguel Martinez’s key art that we used for the foreign key art deliverables to our sales agents at Multivisionaire – the dogbowl/blue sky art. All and all, happy to get it to dvd and move on to the next thing. Sad to report that the producing team really imploded this year. I’m looking forward to a new team and some better vibes.
