John Siracusa
Reconcilable Differences283: Famous in My Head https://relay.fm/rd/283
Jess Bowers@RecDiffs I worked in home video for many years, including tons of big releases in the DVD and Blu-ray era. These documentaries are historically called EPK (electronic press kit). The purpose is marketing to press and exhibitors (theaters). The general public wasn’t the intended audience in the early days. But with the rise of special features on laser disc and then DVD it was a cheap and easy way to pad out the value of the disc.
@RecDiffs as a huge film fan my biggest beef with these EPK‘s is their uncritical nature. When actors and other creatives are interviewed before a film comes out they are afraid of saying anything interesting or bad about the movie or the people they were working with. It’s always way more interesting to talk to people 10 or 20 years later.