Dentro

A portmanteau of demo and intro, and that is exactly what it describes: something in between. An intro was originally the short greeting a cracking group stuck in front of a game; a dentro kept that shape but let the effects spread out, often without a size limit and without the game it once rode on.

The line was always fuzzy, more a matter of ambition than rules. A dentro might carry music, a scroller and a couple of effects yet lack the dramaturgy — the shifting parts and directed whole — that made a production a real demo. At parties dentros rarely got their own category: the small ones slipped into the intro compo, the rest into the demo compo where they usually lost.