I especially like the combined fonts from all movies, it is a brilliant idea.
That's good to hear. The combined fonts are the basis of all of the menus on the disc and were a collaborative effort between THX and myself.
Only the "I" looks strange. ...
Don't you want to try to incorporate the Mother font into the menus?
I tried the Mother font (or a cannibalised version of it til you informed us of what the true font is) initially as a starting point, but it just proved prohibtive and didn't have the right feel - the existing font is an amalgam of the "A" from ALIEN, "L" from ALIENS etc. so the "I" is taken from the Alien3 teaser poster
logo and its much stronger when seen in the correct context.
I do not like the word Appendix, but you people must know better than me if it is appropriate - it is your language
"Appendix" just feels totally right for me - to take its Webster's dictionary definition: "A collection of supplementary material, usually at the end of a book" - well albeit this is at the end of a series of films, it's the correct (and unique) word to use.
Second, why Preservation? Does this term apply to the process that Jonno did with this documentary? I thought that Preservation means more than just copying a video from some source to DVD-R.
Indeed the word does mean more than just copying a video from some source to a DVD-R, it means protecting and maintaining safe - without the kind of movements demonstrated on this board such documentaries would simply disappear from public consumption, ergo this is certainly a preservation project. Just the same as any of the Star Wars DVD's that emminate from this board are referred to as preservation projects. I don't see any difference.
Third, as I already wrote on the previous page, none of the two versions is Abridged in any way. The Quadrilogy version is even a bit longer. Similarly, the words Uncut and Full are misleading. We do not even know which one is older. Maybe they prepared the Quadrilogy version first and then they changed the conception to Kermode's version, who knows? Any Full version must combine both of them with a TRT around 85 mins.
Respectfully, I very much doubt the Quadrilogy was even in it's inception in late 2000/early 2001 when this documentary would have been conceived, produced, written and shot. Nobles Gate are a UK independent production company that created, amongst other similar film-based documentaries, "On the Edge of Blade Runner". The latter was obviously not designed to form some future supplement on a DVD, it was created to be shown on Channel 4/Film 4 as a precursor to screening (in the case of Blade Runner) that film itself, or for the Alien Series - one film per week following the "Evolution" documentary.
This documentary version obviously came first and is a stand-alone item. I view the Quadrilogy version as a bowdlerized version of this original documentary: it's a modification, an amendment. So therefore in terms of the Nobles Gate documentary, produced in 2001 and presented by Mark Kermode - this is the full, uncut version that I watched on UK television before I even heard the word "Quadrilogy". I'll certainly agree that there was more footage shot at the time, that was then implemented into the Quadrilogy version. However that's the not the same uncut, full version (covering Aliens, Alien3, Resurrection) that was shown in 2001.
As you can probably gather I thought quite carefully about every word that went into the description, and I hope you'll see a similar care and attention in the final product, I know were not going to agree on all aspects of the process, but in terms of menus, descriptions etc., bear in mind triffid you did say:
I am definitely against any touches into this our first disc, i.e. adding any other footage or menus. It is great exactly as it is now.
