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Making-of
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In cinema, a Making Of is a behind the scenes documentary film look of the production of the show. This is often referred to as the EPK (Electronic Press Kit) video, due to its main usage as a promotional tool, either concurrent with theatrical release or as a bonus feature for the film's DVD.
Feature length documentaries on the making of other films has become a film genre in its own right. The Making Of film may ultimately be more important than the film itself. In the case of Lost in La Mancha, the making-of video ended up documenting the collapse and abandonment of the feature film it was covering (The Man Who Killed Don Quixote), and ultimately the making-of video was the only part of the production to see a commercial release as a theatrical documentary feature.
Shorter making-of documentaries are often used as a bonus on DVDs, as it offers more insight into the film, how it was made, and to credit the film crew. Occasionally, some films have included a "Making of the making of" as a joke. The Making Of is also often released for TV as a part of the promotion of the film.
There is a related literary genre (e.g. [1], the Making Of Deep Space Nine).
- Burden of Dreams, the making of Fitzcarraldo.
- Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, the making of The Sacrifice.
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the making of Apocalypse Now
- Lost in La Mancha, the failed making of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Wrath of Gods, the making of Beowulf & Grendel
- The Matrix Revisited (straight-to-DVD), the making of The Matrix
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