The Avengers 2012

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The Avengers 2012

The DVD was released in 2012 and has an approx. run time of 137 minutes. It’s a wide screen format (1.78:1) the disk is duel layered making it DVD 9 (8.4GB). It uses various audio choices such as: Dataset, Dolby Digital, and Dolby Surround 7.1. Dolby sound compression is common sound compression source and is used on many dvd’s, games and Blu-ray disks. The format used is PAL (Phase Alternating Line). This also means the reign code is 2, and copyright protected. The disk is fully HD ready and also available in Blu-Ray.

The DVD’s opening includes a futuristic moving blueprint of the layout a hovering ship coming into landing. As the ship lands the camera zooms to an iconic  ‘Shield’ logo/landing pad before dissolving through to a corridor at first person view;  into a lab where two of the main characters spend 70% of the duration of the film. When the camera approaches the lab the doors slide open and a screen extends from the ceiling with the iconic ‘A’ for Avengers logo spinning out into the Dvd menu. 

The menu itself includes series of motion pictures beginning with the avengers themselves, with previews of footage interlocking with sliding panels between each protagonist smoothly after each set of clips; it finishes with an establishing pan of all the heroes in action in the same order shown previously.  Throughout the footage helpers such as shield agents and ‘Director Fury’ are briefly shown along with the main antagonist ‘Loki’ causing some mayhem. The soundtrack played in the background is quiet and diegetic, the pace of the beat increases and as the motion pictures begin a strong heroic and iconic avengers tune plays throughout the scenes and finishes strong as another ‘A’ is spinning and the panels reset, the whole menu is set on a loop.

The menu includes options ‘Play’, ‘Bonus Features’, ‘Scene Selection’ and ‘Set Up’, Each of these options, the ‘Play’ button rushes through a quick montage of VT’s before the screen goes blank and the film begins.

Once the ‘Bonus Features’ option is selected the panels open up from the final pan and again like doors showing a ‘shield’ logo that backs onto the interior of the ship, again in blueprints; With ‘Nick Fury’ standing in his place among his hologram monitors , on the ship’s deck. Below him is the title and a feature called ‘A visual journey’ witch sends off into the creation and makings of the film.

Next is the ‘Scene Selection’ which again uses the panel montage to separate from the main sequence and shows a still from the film of ‘The Hulk’ and an ‘A’ (avengers) sign in the background, during the scrolling between scene selections the numbers will appear green (like the hulk) depending on which number selection you are observing.

The ‘Set up’ uses the same layout as the ‘Scene selection’ however uses the character ‘Iron Man’ and the colour scheme is red like the majority of his suit. The options to return to the film or main menu are along the bottom but are clear enough to see once finished on the option. With the ‘Languages’ and ‘Subtitles’ options in white but appear red if hovering. If the ‘Languages’ option is selected it will change to a still of ‘Thor’ on the left hand side and a identical hovering layout however is blue instead of red, the ‘Set Up’ option is below to guide back through the menus. The ‘Subtitles’ page is identical to the ‘Languages’ just with a still of ‘Captain America’ as appose to ‘Thor’.