Directors Commentary Script

We have decided that there are two ways for us to show our director's commentary. The first choice is to talk over the video, allowing us to reference to what is going on at that moment in time. The other choice is to film us talking about the project, with the media products we will be referencing, being shown on screen in a corner so that the audience will know what area we will be talking about. We think that the first option would be harder to do, as we would need to record a continuous clip to keep in time with the music video. There are also certain time constraints when we will be talking over the music video since it is only around 3 minutes long. Because of this, and because of the added features that can be included in the second option, we think it would be a better idea to use this as the basic format for our director's commentary.

Commentary Key
Ashley
Hope
Michael

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

challenged the conventions in terms of non-voyeuristic clothing during the verses and having a single singer rather than the whole girl group.
followed conventions by having a dance routine as well as multiple close-ups and various costumes changes.
for the magazine advert and the digipak we followed the conventions of a real set of ancillary products, by having a relating background image and a recurring theme throughout

Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

talk about recurring theme of autumn and the leaf motif and having hope as the main feature
talk about inclusion of tour dates and bonus content for audience interaction
bright colours to attract attention

Question 3 - What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Rough cut - eye opening - Examples
Realised what was wrong
Final cut - largely positive and encouraging - Examples

Question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research and planning and evaluation stages?

talk about HD cameras - how we used them - why
final cut - how - why
photoshop - how - why