what is a directors commentary

A directors commentary is a video or voiceover featuring the director of a music video, film or television programme. It discusses the directors choices and decisiions into everything to do with the text. The reason behind these comentaries is to get the veiwer to think more about the media text and appreciate the decisions made and almost analyse them further, it also gives the director the opportunity to evaluate his work. It is more often than not in either a voice over or mini clip format, so that the commentary can be shown alongside or over the top of the text so that the audience can hear and see both, in order to understand the directors explainations.