Director's commentary

A director's commentary is a supplementary piece of footage that gives information to the audience about the content that they might not have gotten from watching the original video. The directors commentary is often available on a seperate disk, or in the bonus content section of the main disk. This is to show that it is seperate from the main feature and that it is not always present in many media products.
There are two main ways for a director's commentary to be recorded; it can be a seperate video, with the directors talking to the camera about the video or it can be an audio recording of the commentary layered over the original video to serve as a reference to the areas that are being talked about.
The nature of the director's commentary are generally either serious or humourous to reflect or contradict the content of the video to give the audience an added persperctive.
During the director's commentary, many different things can be talked about:

• Why certain aspects were chosen for the video, such as location or camera shots.
• Why the video was shot in that style, such as why use a dance sequence.
• What problems that they encountered when putting the video together.
• What changes they would have made if given another opportunity

Director's commentary serve as a way for the audience to get a 'behing the scenes' look as to how the video was made and what has been put into it to reach the final product.
This is the director's commentary of one of the other groups in media.



THe second video is the director's commentary for a video game.