Our commentary began by choosing an exciting and shocking scene from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller film "Psycho". From here we repeatedly watched the clip while noting down its aspects of camera work; its editing, sounds, camera movement and angles. By the use of these techniques we understood the effects on the audience and how the director portrays the elements of the thriller genre in scene. Here we could then reconstruct our notes into a detailed commentary which would also be in line with the timing of the scene itself. After analysing the scene we imported the clip onto iMovie where we could then begin creating our commentary - any unwanted parts of the scene were removed in order to create a commentary with more quality and depth.
As we split our notes into three equal sections, each of us practised our lines and the timing of the commentary. Jonathan was now ready to begin the commentary with the opening of the scene. As it recorded each of us took many attempts to get the commentary in line with the scene - a certain talking speed was needed as the thriller had many quick cuts, making the speaking hard to catch up on. After Jonathan had finished it was my turn to talk about the middle of the scene. I found getting the words and timing right very difficult as using two computers resulted in looking from one screen to another at the end of each line. Finally, Chris finished off the commentary with the end of scene, all that was left to do was to combine both, recordings and clip, together.
We listened to all our recordings and cut out any parts that were unwanted, from here we could insert each specific recording into the exact part of the scene it goes with. After finishing the editing, our commentary was finally constructed; here we could see a strong and successful result of the commentary of the scene.
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