To make our film clip commentary, we first found and watched a clip from our chosen film, Psycho. As we watched it, we made notes on what we saw, particularly on the thriller conventions that we saw, such as the shadow motif. After we had rewatched the clip enough times and made sufficient notes, we added to the notes, making them into full paragraphs. We then downloaded the clip from Youtube, and adding it to iMovie so we could add a commentary. After this, we split the notes into three, and we each read our third by reading and recording a paragraph at a time, and then positioning them to fit better to the content and timings of the clip. However, we did have some difficulty with this as most of what we had to say all occurred very quickly, so we had to reposition some audio to allow the whole commentary to fit. We then uploaded the clip to Blogspot.
Through this exercise, i have acquired a better understanding of how film commentaries and voiceovers work, and how even very short clips can have very large amounts of cinematographical details to analyse. I also learnt how difficult it can be to get a commentary to match up to what is happening on screen. I also noticed how subtle some elements of the cinematography can be in a clip, and how they can only be noticed through repeated viewings or paying attention to very specific details, such as how Lila hits the light as she screams and creates the dynamic lighting found in the rest of the scene, and how subtle some of the motifs can be, so a casual watcher might not consciously be aware of them.
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