🎬 Cold Open
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“Starting a movie used to be an experience…” (magic of DVD menus)
🎙️ Intro Line
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“Today on Filmsack Producers, we’re diving into the golden age of DVD menus…”
📼 Part 1: VHS to DVD Transition
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VHS → DVD: We gained chapter skips, bonus features, better picture.
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Menus became “the front door” to the movie.
🍿 Part 2: The Golden Era of DVD Menus
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Shrek DVD — Donkey yelling “Pick me!” endlessly.
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Shrek 2 — Brady Bunch-style grid menu.
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House of 1000 Corpses DVD — Sid Haig (Captain Spaulding) harasses you.
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Wayne’s World DVD — Fake Phoenix Cable TV guide. (“Looks just like Phoenix Cable from Aurora, Illinois… wooOOoOOo!”)
⚡ Part 3: Weird Headaches of DVD Menus
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Lost remotes = movie night purgatory.
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Bad design: gray text, invisible highlights.
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Superbad DVD — Michael Cera’s infinite dance loop.
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Fight Club DVD prank — Fake Never Been Kissed menu.
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“Screw you, Fight Club. You’re not Monty Python.”
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🎓 Part 4: My Personal Story — Adobe Encore CS6
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Wanted to be a DVD menu designer.
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Studied Adobe Encore CS6: timelines, motion menus, hidden Easter eggs.
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Streaming killed the dream — but it taught craft and appreciation.
📺 Part 5: Streaming and the Loss of Menus
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Traded rich, weird intro experiences for sterile thumbnails.
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Fast, but less alive.
🎬 Final Reflection
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Menus = invitations, not just tech.
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“Not everything needs to be faster. Sometimes it needs to be weirder.”
📚 Sources
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DVD Database (fandom.com)
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Archive.org
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Personal, flawed but passionate memories
🎤 Listener Call-to-Action
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Invite listeners to share their favorite or cursed DVD menus.
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Encourage comments, Patreon posts, Discord discussions.
🎙️ Final Thank You:
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Thanks for supporting Filmsack and letting me nerd out!
