Alternatively, you could include it in "Other Features", calling it something like 'Featurette on a different movie: "xxx" [name of the movie]'.

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Alternatively, you could include it in "Other Features", calling it something like 'Featurette on a different movie: "xxx" [name of the movie]'.

Hmmmm,  a good idea that I hadn't really given any thought to.  Definately worth considering.

it's still a featurette.

Skip

I agree with Skip & Michael.

From Wikipedia:

After the advent of DVD, the term - at least in America - also gained the meaning of "a brief documentary film covering one or more aspects of the film creation process", usually being used in DVD features descriptions to refer to video-format "Behind The Scenes" type bonus features such as documentaries on special effects or set design (although blooper reels and interviews with cast or crew seem to rarely if ever be described as "featurettes"). This usage possibly derived partly or completely independent from the term's original meaning, as should be apparent from the fact that most DVD "featurettes" are actually less (sometimes far less) than 20 minutes in length. Three possible origins for this usage seem to exist, though a combination of any or all three may be equally likely:

1. One or more parties released actual featurette-length (20-44 minute) documentary bonus features on their DVD releases; other members of the industry who did not know the term's origins then used it to mean any short, film-format bonus feature on a disc that was not a blooper reel or interview.
2. It evolved independently from the original term, derived from the same bases of "feature" and the diminutive "-ette", to directly describe mini-documentaries.
3. It refers to the fact that it is a bonus feature, and not the main feature (the feature film), hence, a diminuative is added to distinguish it from the main feature of the disc.
Today, the latter definition, though possibly an inaccurate usage of the original term, is far more common.

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Quoting skipnet50:

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it's still a featurette.

Seconded. Nobody ever said a Featurette has to be about the feature movie.

Actually... they did.

Quoting Contribution Rules:

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Any video documentary material regarding the film, or those associated with it.

This is taken from the Featurettes section of the rules... Note that it says the film... not any film.

(sorry Speedy666 didn't read your post till after I posted)

Speedy has it right.  Based on the rules, in order to use the 'featurete' check box, the featurete must be about the film that is being profiled.

Don't even bother listing, it's just junk fluff.

I'm semi-serious. I know features should be listed, even those that are a waste of time and bitrate, but seeing these get ignored would not break my heart.

Maybe we can add an "Inside Look" bullet to the contribution page, or better yet, a "waste of time fluff featurette". Wait, on second thought this would never work. We can't agree on things plain as day and this is way too open to interpertation.
Just a featurette sounds best.