Directors Commentary

I wrote the director’s commentary and it was recorded in the editing suite’s recording studio. The purpose of a director’s commentary is to help the audience understand what we were trying to create and the process behind this. We mainly discussed the editing style, shot types and the mise-en-scene of the video. We referred to Keith Negus’s theory of the conventions of a pop video and related these back to our video discussing whether we subverted or imitated them in the video.

We described how we subverted one of Negus’s conventions of having many fast paced shots; as some lasted up to eight seconds to emphasise the heavenly and calm element of the video. We also discussed the mise-en-scene of the pop video, especially the colours and the different clothing the girls wear. The green, pink and blue colours in the projections onto the white sheets represented the girly and ethereal quality the video and the band had. We also examined the clothing the band wore in the video. For example, in some shots the girls wore girly white dresses, to represent their youth and peacefulness and in others they wore cosmic style fashionable garments to represent the creativity and uniqueness of the group.