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It's true, now you have an excuse to watch movies!
Every time we go to Spain, I pick up another load of DVDs from El Corte Ingles (the big department store over there). Why do I get them from Spain when I can buy them here? Well, not only do I watch the DVDs for the same reason everyone else does, namely entertainment, but I can also re-watch them in Spanish to learn a little more lingo.
It's certainly more fun that sitting in a class for an hour learning how to tell someone that you have two brothers and three cats and can give you a whole new cool vocabulary in another language.
Of course, it doesn't help that the choice of languages on British sold DVDs is very strange. Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili? Ok, so someone must get use from them, but wouldn’t German, Spanish and French be more appropriate?
Anyway, that’s just one way in which I’ve found myself getting more from a DVD (and subsequently gaining an excuse to watch a film). Director’s commentaries are ideal for anyone who wants to learn about the media of film, from lighting to directing itself. The director and even the actors often have interesting things to say, just so long as you have time to re-watch the whole film with the commentary on.
‘Making of’ features also have some educational value if they are done correctly, otherwise they tend to revert to mindless vehicles for the actors to plug themselves or explain how they spent 5 gruelling months getting into the part. If you’re lucky they will show you how the special effects are achieved, the way the music is put together and how the different studio teams work together as well as many other things.
There are other sources for education that are, how shall I say, far more obvious, as many a viewer of Ron Jeremy’s work would argue, but we shall perhaps not dwell on that for too long, suffice to say that you’d have to be careful in what company you were getting that form of education.
So, plenty of excuses to watch more films and TV on DVD then. If you’ll excuse me I’m off to learn something from the Bare Witch Project….
Every time we go to Spain, I pick up another load of DVDs from El Corte Ingles (the big department store over there). Why do I get them from Spain when I can buy them here? Well, not only do I watch the DVDs for the same reason everyone else does, namely entertainment, but I can also re-watch them in Spanish to learn a little more lingo.
It's certainly more fun that sitting in a class for an hour learning how to tell someone that you have two brothers and three cats and can give you a whole new cool vocabulary in another language.
Of course, it doesn't help that the choice of languages on British sold DVDs is very strange. Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili? Ok, so someone must get use from them, but wouldn’t German, Spanish and French be more appropriate?
Anyway, that’s just one way in which I’ve found myself getting more from a DVD (and subsequently gaining an excuse to watch a film). Director’s commentaries are ideal for anyone who wants to learn about the media of film, from lighting to directing itself. The director and even the actors often have interesting things to say, just so long as you have time to re-watch the whole film with the commentary on.
‘Making of’ features also have some educational value if they are done correctly, otherwise they tend to revert to mindless vehicles for the actors to plug themselves or explain how they spent 5 gruelling months getting into the part. If you’re lucky they will show you how the special effects are achieved, the way the music is put together and how the different studio teams work together as well as many other things.
There are other sources for education that are, how shall I say, far more obvious, as many a viewer of Ron Jeremy’s work would argue, but we shall perhaps not dwell on that for too long, suffice to say that you’d have to be careful in what company you were getting that form of education.
So, plenty of excuses to watch more films and TV on DVD then. If you’ll excuse me I’m off to learn something from the Bare Witch Project….
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It's true, now you have an excuse to watch movies!
Every time we go to Spain, I pick up another load of DVDs from El Corte Ingles (the big department store over there). Why do I get them from Spain when I can buy them here? Well, not only do I watch the DVDs for the same reason everyone else does, namely entertainment, but I can also re-watch them in Spanish to learn a little more lingo.
It's certainly more fun that sitting in a class for an hour learning how to tell someone that you have two brothers and three cats and can give you a whole new cool vocabulary in another language.
Of course, it doesn't help that the choice of languages on British sold DVDs is very strange. Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili? Ok, so someone must get use from them, but wouldn’t German, Spanish and French be more appropriate?
Anyway, that’s just one way in which I’ve found myself getting more from a DVD (and subsequently gaining an excuse to watch a film). Director’s commentaries are ideal for anyone who wants to learn about the media of film, from lighting to directing itself. The director and even the actors often have interesting things to say, just so long as you have time to re-watch the whole film with the commentary on.
‘Making of’ features also have some educational value if they are done correctly, otherwise they tend to revert to mindless vehicles for the actors to plug themselves or explain how they spent 5 gruelling months getting into the part. If you’re lucky they will show you how the special effects are achieved, the way the music is put together and how the different studio teams work together as well as many other things.
There are other sources for education that are, how shall I say, far more obvious, as many a viewer of Ron Jeremy’s work would argue, but we shall perhaps not dwell on that for too long, suffice to say that you’d have to be careful in what company you were getting that form of education.
So, plenty of excuses to watch more films and TV on DVD then. If you’ll excuse me I’m off to learn something from the Bare Witch Project….
Every time we go to Spain, I pick up another load of DVDs from El Corte Ingles (the big department store over there). Why do I get them from Spain when I can buy them here? Well, not only do I watch the DVDs for the same reason everyone else does, namely entertainment, but I can also re-watch them in Spanish to learn a little more lingo.
It's certainly more fun that sitting in a class for an hour learning how to tell someone that you have two brothers and three cats and can give you a whole new cool vocabulary in another language.
Of course, it doesn't help that the choice of languages on British sold DVDs is very strange. Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili? Ok, so someone must get use from them, but wouldn’t German, Spanish and French be more appropriate?
Anyway, that’s just one way in which I’ve found myself getting more from a DVD (and subsequently gaining an excuse to watch a film). Director’s commentaries are ideal for anyone who wants to learn about the media of film, from lighting to directing itself. The director and even the actors often have interesting things to say, just so long as you have time to re-watch the whole film with the commentary on.
‘Making of’ features also have some educational value if they are done correctly, otherwise they tend to revert to mindless vehicles for the actors to plug themselves or explain how they spent 5 gruelling months getting into the part. If you’re lucky they will show you how the special effects are achieved, the way the music is put together and how the different studio teams work together as well as many other things.
There are other sources for education that are, how shall I say, far more obvious, as many a viewer of Ron Jeremy’s work would argue, but we shall perhaps not dwell on that for too long, suffice to say that you’d have to be careful in what company you were getting that form of education.
So, plenty of excuses to watch more films and TV on DVD then. If you’ll excuse me I’m off to learn something from the Bare Witch Project….