A directors commentary is almost like a voice over or an additional track that is played over the original video/clip, whilst commenting on the events and other things happening in the video such as how the ideas come about. There are lots of different ways of presenting the directors commentary, the main two are Partial or scene specific, which comments on different selected scenes or sections of the video, and the other is feature length or screen specific, which is recorded all in one go. Generally the commentary will include comments from not only the director but also cast members and other members of the group (producers etc). It is typically used that the director will use this as an almost interview like video, using different kinds of questions, some DVD's also include other commentary's in which film critics are used.
Overall the point of the commentary is to give information about the video that the video can not tell itself, and this information can be displayed in a serious or entertaining way.
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