I got my All Hell Breaks Loose convention DVD today. ... No squeeing here. I am really disappointed. In
everything. The cover is ridiculously bad. I'm sorry to whoever made it, I'm not trying to actively diss you, I can honestly say that I know the final look of something can often be the client's idea of what looks good rather than the graphic designer/artist in charge, but ... I'm having trouble believing that this was professionally done. If it was? It was done on a dodgey home-made set up. The discs themselves look like they've just been run through an Epson r210 and smell like it, too. It's never a good sign when you can smell ink on discs. But whatever. The whole thing screams amateur hour. That's the first thing you think when you see the cover and it's the first thing you think when you see the actual dvd menu. Lame-o. Seriously.
And then there's the content. The interviews go for about a minute a piece? Jensen only clocked about 30seconds, I think. He had, what? three questions? Fail. Jared's was filmed while Misha was having a panel so he was somewhat drowned out by the screaming fangirls and all three suffered from awesome-bad echoing problems. Way to think things through, HUB.
Highlight reels were .. IDK. Am I overusing the word bad? About five minutes of footage of con-goers doing random things; queueing, buying merch, getting photo and auto ops, random scans of the crowd, heavily condensed screaming & trivia contests, about three minutes of the ViP afternoon tea thing and really random
Hi we have a camera and are making a dvd can you say a few words about how awesome everything is? moments with fans.
But the thing I was dreading most - the stupid crotch-shot screen is the footage on the dvd. I was hoping against hope that they had another camera. Turns out they did - but it kinda sucks. They switch to that whenever they lose Jared, Jensen or Misha on screen, but even then there is sometimes a lag of dead screen when no-one has noticed that the boys have moved. But on the whole it was the Crotch-shot screen of Fail.
I know it sounds like I'm bitching and... I guess I kinda am. I paid more for this dvd than I pay for actual dvds, you know? That AND i waited two and a half months to get my fucking hands on it. I was expecting more. But this is HUB afterall, and I can honestly say that I had a low opinion of them already because of certain issues at the convention, and now this has just reaffirmed that opinion.
/bitching.
..and onto the goodies.
One of the things that annoys me most about the cover is the lack of Misha so of course, I made my own. Anyone is welcome to download the files and use them for your own purposes.
They aren't perfect but I kinda like 'em a whole lot better than the official version. =) And IDC if I sound obnoxious. ^__^
Download Cover Here.** DVD Cover is 300dpi ready-to-print jpg file that should fit the supplied case.
Download Disc Art Here** A couple of things though;
DO NOT print out labels and stick them onto your existing dvds. Unevenly applied labels can actually, over time, cause your discs to spin unevenly and ruin them. If you are interested in having pretty disc art, I suggest you either
A) rip/burn a new copy of the discs onto
FULL FACE printable discs and print them up with a printer that has disc-printing capabilities, or
B) Print labels up and apply them to newly burned dvds, keeping the originals intact incase the new copies go wonky as time goes by.
Also, be sure to use FULL FACE labels or Jensen and Jared will have big holes where their heads should be. =)