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"short featurette" is a brief video or film that focuses on a particular topic or theme. It is usually shorter than a regular movie or documentary, highlighting key aspects or providing behind-the-scenes insights.
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There is also a range
of short featurettes on everything from a focus on the marionette technology to a short anecdote about Stanley Kubrick.
The Second Screen concludes with seven additional
short featurettes which you can «Flick to Screen» to watch on your television.
Another featurette tells Jake LaMotta's story, and an
additional short featurette is about DeNiro's commitment to capturing the real LaMotta.
EXTRAS: There's a pair of
short featurettes covering various aspects of production, but sadly, that's the extent of the bonus material.
Two
other short featurettes: The Victim's P.O.V., which is mostly an interview with Kasey Rogers about her distinctive specs, and The Hitchcocks on Hitch, which is basically the sort of Cliffs Notes biography that fills the gaps between films on the Turner Classic Movies network.
That would be enough to tide over fans anticipating the upcoming definitive release, but there are
also shorter featurettes on costume design, theatrical lighting, and film editing; a selection of auditions and screen tests (though, it must be noted, not including Jennifer Hudson's — I guess some things had to be saved for later); an extensive still gallery; and, most intriguingly, pre-visualization sequences for the musical numbers shot with dancer stand - ins.
They are
short featurettes centered on Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and writer - director Taylor Sheridan, unfolding with a standard mix of talking head interviews, film clips, and footage from the location production.
Finally, a pair of
shorter featurettes spotlight the movie's costume designs and tests, as well as its attempt at authenticity in its selection of weapons.
Short featurettes like «On Dating,» «The Fun of Casting» and «Making of a Spoof» are a drag to sit through, while the included gag reel is barely a minute long.
Weinstein and Anchor Bay's combo pack is surprisingly bereft of bonus materials, but the nice menus and packaging plus two
fine short featurettes complement a fantastic feature presentation.
«Creating I Am Legend» (52 minutes) is a series of 21
short featurettes which examine several different facets of the movie's production.
The supplements include a very good making - of documentary (about 28 minutes), and two
shorter featurettes focusing on the series visual effects and the creation of the opening titles sequence.
Home Entertainment has included some oddball special features for this High Definition release, opting for several
very short featurettes as well as teasers for the film somewhat disguised under new titles.
EXTRAS: The Blu - ray release includes an interview with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, deleted scenes, a gag reel and nine
short featurettes covering various elements of production, including actress Bella Thorne's «makeover,» location shooting in Georgia and more.
«On Location: The Making of Chimpanzee» includes a series
of short featurettes that tells what in the great lengths that the filmmakers went to tell the story of Oscar and his chimpanzee family.
EDITOR»S NOTE:
This short featurette ran in our Dec. 20, 2012, issue as part of a five - part feature on the faces who represented each of the 2012 Norhern California CIF Bowl representatives.
That's how many videotaped testimonies Spielberg's Shoah Foundation has gathered, and you can see how they've been put to work in
a short featurette on the work of the foundation.
«TheShoah Foundation Story» is
a short featurette explaining how this Holocaust memory projectcame to be, and what its goals are.
Sydney Pollack at Work: From Concept to Cutting Room —
This short featurette discusses how Pollack likes to shoot, how he likes editing more, how he failed as an actor, etc..
There's a Blu - ray release with identical special features on it as well, which consist of
some short featurettes about the movie's visual effects and some nonsense about director Antione Fuqua «s insistence that the action in this «cautionary tale» be realistic.
EXTRAS: There's an audio commentary by director Liza Johnson and producer / author Jerry Schilling, as well as
a short featurette on the real - life event.
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this short featurette below:
EXTRAS: In addition to
a short featurette about a family road trip that Melissa McCarthy and director Ben Falcone took following production on the film, there are four deleted scenes, some alternate takes and a gag reel.
A short featurette goes the cute route by treating the monkey like a starving actor «discovered» in a variety of odd jobs but is otherwise the same old sycophancy.
«Into The Storm» director Steven Quale, producer Todd Garner and professional storm - chaser Reed Timmer unveil the truth about the tornadoes the film is based on in
a short featurette.
I don't know how to quite explain
the short featurette «My Dinner with Stormy,» which features Rogan and porn star Stormy Daniels, the star of Andy's fantasies.
The supplements consist of
a short featurette on the set - up of one of the scenes, the trailer, and almost an hour's worth of short interviews / sound bites from a large selection of the cast members and the director.
The disc has a nice suite of extras including a wide - ranging audio commentary by the director, a good making - of documentary (30 minutes),
a short featurette in which the real - life brothers discuss their family's boxing background, about a quarter hour of deleted scenes with optional director commentary, and the theatrical trailer (all of the latter four in HD).