Making-of
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As a making-of (German: the production of ) one calls a look behind the scenes ( behind the scenes ) of a film or music production . In the field of film production, two types can be distinguished: documentary and purely advertising making-ofs. In music productions, making-ofs usually have a documentary character.
Film production
Documentary making-ofs
Walt Disney was one of the pioneers of documentary making-ofs . As early as the 1950s and 1960s, he used his television shows Disneyland and later Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color to present the studio's cinema productions in great detail, focusing on the respective type of film production - from cartoons to documentaries . enter into. Disney mostly only spoke the introductory sentences and then left the further introduction to the people working on the respective project. In the course of time, the viewers got to know all the main creative minds of the Disney studio. For film historian these recordings are now of great interest and movie fans. Re-releases on DVD also show that these early television specials have lost little of their entertainment and information potential over the decades. But even at that time it was recognized that these making-ofs went far beyond mere advertising films. Disney even received an Emmy Award in 1954 for Operation Undersea , which describes the shooting of the feature film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea .
Otherwise, there have been advertising making-ofs since the 1970s and 1980s , but it was only with the advent of DVDs that the type anticipated by Disney at the time became generally established.
The making- of director often accompanies the film production from the early phase of production to the actual shooting and the subsequent post-production . In interviews, both the people behind the film camera and the film actors have their say, who report how they felt about working on the film or film set and with the film crew . The creation of the special effects , the visual effects and the implementation of the stunts are also often described in detail. If the film is already finished and if it is an advertising film produced for television , the viewer can already see film excerpts.
The average length of a making-of is 20 to 25 minutes. In the case of large-scale productions, e.g. B. the Extended Edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy , this can often be up to five hours long on the DVD. Other examples that actually document the entire genesis of a film and also take a critical look at the work: Bonus material in James Bond: Die Another Day , 12 Monkeys or King Kong (2005). In the case of the latter, the making-ofs were published on the Internet during the shooting period and on DVD before the cinema release.
Advertising making-ofs
At the time of the theatrical release, so-called making-ofs with interviews, material from the filming (b-roll) and many film clips are broadcast on television. It is important with such a making-of that the plot is only sketched out, the end of the film is not too obvious, and that the dramaturgy arouses tension and interest in potential cinema-goers. The film is usually presented uncritically and those involved usually only comment positively on the production.
Music production
Making-ofs for music productions often depict parts of the creation process of a music production. Video clips are often produced that show excerpts from the production work during a song. Besides the actual production processes often interviews shown with the participating musicians or in the course of a piece of music cut into it . Seldom parts of the work process are shown in the studio that are not directly related to the recording of the respective pieces of music.
As a rule, the resulting making-ofs are included on DVD in a so-called “deluxe” or “limited edition” of the respective sound carrier, for example with the album Apocalyptic Love by Slash or the debut album by Black Country Communion ; publication as an independent medium is less common such as Aerosmith's 110-minute film The Making of Pump , which was first released in 1996 on VHS cassette and in 1998 on DVD.