Documentary Unit: Commentary

We recently dedicated a day to commentary. At times when I'd been doing some editing, Mary had been planning our commentary while watching to figure out the best things to say. We then came together and typed it all up, we then looked back at the commentary from our original script and mixed them together. I think we have great commentary as it's very descriptive of what our subject and question of 'what's it like being gay today?' is, as well as introducing each character and including important and supportive facts.

We decided that Mary is the best choice out of the two of us for commentary, as she's very close to our central character Carl, Michelle is a close friend of her family and she has a great speaking voice. So, we moved on to getting it recorded. We used the mic in the recording room and recorded it onto the Zoom. We ran into a couple of problems as we weren't too familiar with the technology, but as nothing was too major, we managed to record our commentary with ease.

We then proceeded to add it to Final Cut. Once we split each section up and placed things such as the introduction and introducing Carl, it made the documentary really come to life and feel professional.

Above: Our first page of commentary

Above: Our timeline, showing the newly placed commentary