Machine Room produce DVD of cult Channel 4 series

Full-service DVD facility, The Machine Room, is producing the Definitive Collector’s Edition DVD box set of the Channel 4 drama serial ‘Queer as Folk’.
Released by Channel 4 Video on September 8, the series tracks the life of three men living it large in Manchester’s gay village. The DVD includes all ten episodes of series 1 & 2 plus a raft of extra features on a fourth extras disc.
Felix Burton, DVD Producer at The Machine Room, said that the hardest challenge was to “bring together the vast amounts of footage and to give the discs a uniform and seamless look and feel.” The client was presented with a whole host of extra features to incorporate into the discs. Making of interviews, video montages, photo galleries and a number of contemporary documentaries made the final cut, as well as extended and deleted scenes with recorded commentary from the cast and crew. All the episodes also benefited from newly recorded commentaries.
DVD Production Manager Tony Bradley commented: “Channel 4 Video had already released series 1 & 2 of Queer As Folk separately, and from the start we set out to produce what would be the definitive release of this groundbreaking series. I think that in conjunction with Channel 4 Video, this is exactly what we’ve achieved.”
The Machine Room used its digital linear online suites and After Effects to create the animated menus, and authored the discs on Spruce DVD Maestro.
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