projets dvd HD pour Coppola (dont Apocalypse now)

[Jérôme]

Coppola's DVD Producer Preparing for HD

The role of the DVD producer has become increasingly integral in creating a bridge between the director and the fan. It stands to become even more important with the bulging capacity for extras high-def discs will offer.

For DVD producer Kim Aubry, that director is Francis Ford Coppola.

Aubry was the DVD producer for Coppola DVDs The Godfather DVD Collection, Apocalypse Now Redux, Rumble Fish, One From the Heart, The Conversation, Tucker: The Man and His Dream and The Outsiders: The Complete Novel, to name a few.

Aubry first met the director when he signed on to do sound work for Gardens of Stone in the late 1980s. He had been working in sound mixing and radio in San Francisco, the home of Coppola’s American Zoetrope production company.

The two started talking. Coppola was interested in Aubry’s radio background, and Aubry’s been working for him ever since.

“Even then, [Coppola] had a lot of questions about high-definition and where it was going,” Aubry said. “We seemed to just hit it off talking about technology and the use of it in filmmaking.”

Last year, Aubry took the DVD-production arm of Coppola’s American Zoetrope and turned it into the pure-play DVD production company ZAP Zoetrope Aubry Productions. There he works on film and soundtrack restoration, artistic design and bonus content productions.

For the past 15 months, Aubry and his team have been working on the upcoming special edition DVD release — Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier, a sort of “kitchen sink” version of an Apocalypse Now DVD.

It will include both the original and Redux versions of the film, as well as a wealth of new documentaries that dive deep into the editing, the sound, the music and other aspects of the film’s production.

Aubry is filming some of the bonus features in high-def, for this and for another project, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which will also include a special “art student” viewing option.

“Whenever moments in the film appear that have interesting references to art, a button will appear,” he said. “They can select it, and the film will stop, and they’ll see the storyboard or the painting the setting is based on.”

The impending world of high-def signals an exciting future, Aubry said, even just from a quality standpoint.

“To get a movie to show on a standard-definition TV, even on a good system and a great monitor, still means we are throwing away more than half the data, half the detail information,” he said.

It’s early and expensive to be working in high-def, Aubry said. It can cost anywhere from 35% to 60% more, and the budgets for extras have not increased that much.

“But we’re doing it because we want to learn how to do it,” he said. “We’re kind of seeding the market — using HD transfers of the film to make the bonuses, shooting in HD. The bump up in quality is noticeable.”

There’s a chance that high-definition discs will one day mirror or even be better than the theatrical viewing experience, especially for people in smaller communities where there are often less sophisticated movie theaters, Aubry said.

Of course, as a DVD producer, his mind goes to the possibilities for extra features.

“The possibilities of a 25GB or 30GB easy-to-manufacture disc is very interesting because we can have the film presented beautifully, and we can annotate interestingly,” he said.

A lot will depend, as it does now, on the enthusiasm of the distributor to budget special features, and exactly what is available.

Luckily for Aubry, Coppola is a pack-rat of the highest order, which generates plenty of content and ideas for DVD extras. A few years ago, Zoetrope hired a full-time archivist to manage the director’s vast storage of memorabilia, notes and film.

Of course, that wasn’t the case when Aubry was putting together The Godfather Collection for DVD; there was a lot of digging done to come up with vintage extras for that set.

His favorite item on the Godfather set was a dusty, old, torn-up audio-tape he found while rifling through Coppola’s stash. He carefully restored the delicate tape and discovered a session Coppola had recorded in Italy, where he had flown to discuss The Godfather’s now iconic score with composer Nino Rota.

Studios and directors have improved in preserving and chronicling films, even as consumers are increasingly more used to having these well-produced, bonus-laden discs on their shelves.

“If home video was still exclusively a rental business, obviously these enhancements would be less valuable, but now that things are priced to sell, it’s a competitive market,” he said. “You have to look for reasons why people really want to keep it on the shelf.”

[marvin]

Faudrait peut être qu'il nous mette "Heart of Darkness" avec quand même...Depuis le temps que je veux le revoir.

Cette histoire de HD DVD commence à devenir vraiment intéressante

[Fatalis rex]

Et sinon c'est quand qu'il nous fait un film ? Et pas une merde si possible ?

[Jérôme]

Faudrait peut être qu'il nous mette "Heart of Darkness" avec quand même...Depuis le temps que je veux le revoir.

je l'ai en dvd

[marvin]

Faudrait peut être qu'il nous mette "Heart of Darkness" avec quand même...Depuis le temps que je veux le revoir.

je l'ai en dvd

Y a des trucs que tu as pas dans ta caverne d'Ali Baba ?

[Jérôme]

non, je viens de recevoir la workprint du 13ème guerrier...

OK, je

sinon, j'ai reçu le making of promo de Back to the future II, présenté par Leslie Nielsen. Faut voir Frank Drebin sortir d'une Delorean volante

[haxandreyer]

non, je viens de recevoir la workprint du 13ème guerrier...

C'est quoi le workprint ??? La version qu'on attend tous depuis des années ?

[Manolito]

Pour haxandreyer, je répobnds dans le thread concerné

viewtopic.php?p=197330#197330

[Jérôme]

haxandreyer, je plaisantais bien sûr

[Jérôme]

gros collector d'apocalypse now annoncé en Zone 1 avec scènes coupées et docus en rafale...

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61523

[Dragonball]

This two-disc Special Collector’s Edition includes both the 1979 and 2001 editions of the film plus over 2 hours of bonus materials. Features include:
Anamorphic Widescreen Transfers
English DD5.1 Surround
English and Spanish subtitles
Commentary by Francis Ford Coppola
Watch Apocalypse Now with Francis Ford Coppola
Marlon Brando's complete reading of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men"
Lost "Monkey Sampan" Scene
Additional Scenes: Saigon Streetlife, Military Intelligence Escorts, Intelligence Briefing (two extensions), Willard Meets the PBR Crew, Letter From Mrs. Kurtz, Booby Trap, Do-Lung Bridge “…That Road Is Open”, The Photojournalist, Colby, The Tiger Cages, “Special Forces Knife”
The A/V Club
The Post Production of Apocalypse Now: A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now, The Music of Apocalypse Now, The Sound of Apocalypse Now, The final Mix
A/V Club: The Birth of 5.1 Sound, Ghost Helicopter Flyover, “The Synthesizer Soundtrack” by Bob Moog, Technical FAQ
"PBR Streetgang" Cast Members' Reunion
"Apocalypse Then and Now" Retrospective
The Added Scenes and Expanded Scenes of Apocalypse Now Redux
The Color Pallet of Apocalypse Now

Hum, visiblement, toujours pas de "Heart of Darkness" !

C'est un DVD fait à partir du LD ou d'unbe diffusion TV (et donc STF) que tu as Jérome ?

Sinon, j'aivais lu que l'attaque du camp vietcong par les troupe du générale Killgore était normalement beaucoup plus longue.
Dans tout ce fouilli de supléments, difficle de voir si cette "Extented scène" est présente.

[Jérôme]

a partir du LD NTSC

[Dragonball]

OK. Donc pas de STF !