Tuesday 23 April 2013

Describe the applications and practice of DVD menu design and authoring with some appropriate use of subject terminology

DVD menu's are used to navigate between content and settings on a DVD.
a general DVD menu consists of a play button, setting button and commonly a scene selection button all labeled accordingly making it very easy to navigate.

The Scene Selection menu usually consists of various stills of the full movie of which you can select and navigate to that stage of the movie/footage and a button to return to the home page.

Here is and example of a scene selection menu
















Settings pages usually consist of many options/tweaks that enhance your viewing experience such as volume, brightness, language settings, subtitles and additional features.

It is important for DVD's to have subtitles as some people are hard of hearing or speak different languages. having this option on a dvd means that these people get to enjoy the footage, opening the dvd out to a larger audience.

Additional content can include behind the scene footage still images, directors cuts and comments.

When creating a dvd menu it is important to make a relevant DVD disc cover, typical content that is usually printed onto a disc is imagery such as the title the age restriction copyright content and relevant advertising imager.

Here is an example of a DVD that has been printed onto displaying the typical information and imagery.












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