Pre-Production on DVD

Is dvd dead?

DVD stands for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, which stores a large amount of data including; moving images, audio, the format needed for it to work, copyright warning information, and also document pictures.

There many different types of DVD’s as they have many different uses, for example; DVD-video is used for movies as it consist of digital video and audio format and DVD-ROM which has data that cannot be written or erased, only read.

 Conventions of DVD

The conventions of DVD usually consist with a start menu and special features menu, etc. Some conventions serve as part of the DVD’s function for the consumer or audience, whereas other conventions serve to protect or warn the consumer, by using things like copyright protection warning. This usually warns or reminds the consumer, the law of owning a pirate DVD and is usually seen before a film is being shown and looks like the picture below.

On a DVD there are four different functions that are usually on screen for the consumer to choose from in the main menu, such as play movie, settings, special features, scene selection. Settings usually include language settings and sometimes subtitles, which are useful as some people may want to watch the movie in a different language or those of a hearing disability or are deaf, can use subtitles to watch the movie. Special Features can sometimes have an interactive game for families to play together or a deleted scenes for the audience to watch but it always has a behind the scenes, where the directors explain how long the movie took to produce etc. Scene Selection is basically an image slideshow, where the consumer or audience can choose where they would like to start the movie from e.g. the middle.  

Does DVD have a future?

I think the DVD’s are steadily fading away into the past as there are other platforms that has been following the present such as; Netflix, and Loveflims. Two online platforms which shows movies and TV shows, with functions like subtitles, rate but the consumer can only watch films or TV shows on these platforms by paying monthly but then there has been piracy DVD’s being sold and they are more common the buying DVD’s. The pirate DVD’s are more popular as many of them consist of movies that haven’t even been shown in the cinema in the UK or USA, so in the industry of DVDs, pirate DVDs are a threat towards them. Although there was a time where the uniqueness of DVDs had companies getting their sales but now the DVDs are being used and sold at a lower price at which customers prefer.