Who oversaw the extras for the DVDs and how were they produced?
It's a combination of everything. When we start a new project, the first thing we do is talk to the people who created the material initially.
So we’d meet with Joss Whedon and his team, and say, "Is there anything particularly you’d like to do, or what material is available, or who would be interested, from a cast point of view, in participating."
Once we’ve got that framework established, then we see how much space we’re going to have on the disk. So if we’re going to have a three or four disk release, how much additional space are we going to have to put material on without impacting on the quality of the video.
Then you have to look at who the core fans of the series are, what they like about the series, and how can we make the DVD release tie into that.
[If] you just thought, "Well, I’m going to put an HBO special on the making of Buffy on that" it wouldn’t really be as interesting to the core Buffy fans as seeing Joss Whedon talk about it, seeing the cast and crew talk about how their characters develop and how the story arc develops.
Those type of interviews give people a little bit more of the feeling that not only have they seen the show and they’re a fan, but they’ve got something other people don’t have, they’ve got something special by getting the DVD.
