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Featurette/Making Of/Interviews
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantrink_no2
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Registered: May 9, 2007
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Greetings:

Confusion on my part, which I can't figure out from the contributions rules.  OK, here it goes:

When submitting DVD Features, we have a checkbox for Featurette and a checkbox for Interviews.  (The XML tag for Featurette is "Making Of", BTW ... that threw me for a loop, too.)  It seems like it's hard to have Interviews without it being part of a featurette.  And it seems real difficult to do a "Making of" without sitting down and talking to some cast and/or crew.

My example is Fletch, the "Jane Doe" Edition (UPC - 025193289223).  There is an extra titled "Just Charge It to the Underhills:  Making and Remembering Fletch".  It's describe as such:  "Relieve the insanity of this comedy masterpiece through hilarious interviews with the cast and crew."  I watched the feature, and it's more or less people being interviewed on how they made the movie.  ("Well, we let Chevy ad-lib a lot.  He was good at it.")  So what do I have, a featurette, interviews, or both?

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I don't have this particular DVD, so I can't be sure, but the "Interviews" checkbox is there because on some DVDs you will find as an extra interviews with cast members set aside separately to any other material.
A general guideline to follow would be: if the interview is intercut with any other material (behind the scenes, clips from the film etc.) then it is a featurette, otherwise it's an interview.
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I would say if interviews are part of a featurette then do not check Interviews.  The same is true when we have deleted scenes in a featurette we do not check Deleted Scenes.

On my contributions I only check Interviews when an Interview is a separate feature as part of the bonus materials.
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I agree with northbloke and Tracer.
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Quoting rink_no2:
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It seems like it's hard to have Interviews without it being part of a featurette.

This is simply wrong. There are numerous releases where interviews with cast or crew members are separate features. Only in these cases should "Interviews" be checked.
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Quoting widescreenforever:
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Well, that helped. 

I got what northbloke and tracer are saying.  Not a problem, I'll just well enough alone.

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