Which discs include multiple camera angles?
There’s actually a euphemism in the DVD industry, where “multi-angle titles” –spoken with the right inflection– means adult titles. However, apart from hundreds of X-rated discs, not very many DVDs have multiple angles, since it takes extra work and limits playing time (a segment with two angles uses up twice as much space on the disc). Short Cinema Journal vol. 1 was one of the first to use camera angles, in the animated “Big Story,” which is also available on the DVD Demystified sample disc. Ultimate DVD (Gold or Platinum) is another sample disc with examples of angles. King Crimson: Deja Vroom has excellent angles, allowing you to focus on any of the musicians. Other multi-angle music discs include Dave Matthews Band: Listener Supported, Metallica Cunning Stunts, Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball. Some movies, such as Detroit Rock City (KISS video), Ghostbusters SE, Mallrats, Suicide Kings, Terminator 2 SE, andTomorrow Never Dies SE use multiple angles in supplements.
There’s actually a euphemism in the DVD industry, where “multi-angle titles” –spoken with the right inflection– means adult titles. However, apart from hundreds of X-rated discs, not very many DVDs have multiple angles, since it takes extra work and limits playing time (a segment with two angles uses up twice as much space on the disc). Short Cinema Journal vol. 1 was one of the first to use camera angles, in the animated “Big Story,” which is also available on the DVD Demystified sample disc. King Crimson: Deja Vroom has excellent angles, allowing you to focus on any of the musicians. Some movies, such as Ghostbusters SE, Terminator 2 SE, and Tomorrow Never Dies SE use multiple angles in supplements. You can get an incomplete list of multi-angle discs by doing an extended search at DVD File or a power search at DVD Express.
DVD includes parental management features for blocking playback and for multiple versions of a movie on a single disc. Players (including software players on PCs) can be set to a parental level so that discs rated above that level will not play. As an alternative to a single rating for the entire disc (or ratings for different sections of the disc), a disc can be designed so that it plays a different version of the movie depending on the parental level that has been set in the player. By taking advantage of the seamless branching feature of DVD, objectionable scenes are automatically skipped over or replaced during playback. This requires that the disc be carefully authored with alternate scenes and branch points that don’t cause interruptions or discontinuities in the soundtrack. There is no standard way to identify which discs have multi-rated content. Unfortunately, very few multi-rating discs have been produced.
There’s a euphemism in the DVD industry, where “multi-angle titles” –spoken with the right inflection– means adult titles. However, apart from thousands of XXX-rated discs, not very many mainstream DVDs have multiple angles, since it takes extra work and limits playing time (a segment with two angles uses up twice as much space on the disc). Short Cinema Journal vol. 1 was one of the first to use camera angles, in the animated “Big Story,” which is also available on the DVD Demystified first edition sample disc . Ultimate DVD (Gold or Platinum) is another sample disc with examples of angles. King Crimson: Deja Vroom has excellent angles, allowing you to focus on any of the musicians. Other multi-angle music discs include Dave Matthews Band: Listener Supported, Metallica Cunning Stunts, Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball.
There’s a euphemism in the DVD industry, where “multi-angle titles” –spoken with the right inflection– means adult titles. However, apart from thousands of XXX-rated discs, not very many mainstream DVDs have multiple angles, since it takes extra work and limits playing time (a segment with two angles uses up twice as much space on the disc). Short Cinema Journal vol. 1 was one of the first to use camera angles, in the animated “Big Story,” which is also available on the DVD Demystified first edition sample disc. Ultimate DVD (Gold or Platinum) is another sample disc with examples of angles. King Crimson: Deja Vroom has excellent angles, allowing you to focus on any of the musicians. Other multi-angle music discs include Dave Matthews Band: Listener Supported, Metallica Cunning Stunts, Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball. Some movies, such as Detroit Rock City (KISS video), Ghostbusters SE, Mallrats, Suicide Kings, Terminator 2 SE, and Tomorrow Never Dies SE use multiple angles in supplements.
