Changes: In-vision commentary

Revision as of 22:02, 23 June 2010

An in-vision commentary was a commentary in which the participants were filmed, and the resulting video was dropped within the video of the episode on which they were commenting. This then allowed the viewer to divine extra meaning by reading the facial expressions of the participants as they commented, and overcame the occasional problem encountered on audio commentaries of participants making visual references. Such commentaries were a major feature of the series 2 boxset, but they were not extensively used thereafter.

However, a form of "video commentary" was later used on the official Doctor Who website, as a part of the Adventure Calendar series. These commentaries differed from the ones on the DVD boxset, in that they were simply recordings of the commentary participants; no footage from the actual episodes was included. Indeed, most of these "in-vision commentaries" were later repurposed as simple audio commentaries either in the podcast series of commentaries used in the RTD era, or on the DVD boxsets. Nevertheless, they were labeled "in vision commentary" on their respective title cards.

Series	Episode	Participants	Where located
2	The Christmas Invasion	Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson	DVD boxset
	New Earth	Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Phil Collinson	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 6)
	Tooth and Claw	David Tennant, Derek Riddell, Simon Winstone	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 23)
	The Girl in the Fireplace	David Tennant, Sophia Myles, Phil Collinson	DVD boxset
	The Age of Steel	Graeme Harper, Nick Briggs, Paul Kasey	DVD boxset
	The Impossible Planet	David Tennant, Will Cohen, Shaun Parkes	DVD boxset
	Doomsday	David Tennant, Billie Piper	DVD boxset
	Doomsday	Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 18)
3	Gridlock	Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Dave Houghton	2007 Adventure Calendar (day 11)
	The Sound of Drums	Freema Agyeman, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Trevor Laird	2007 Adventure Calendar (day 22)

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 {{real world}}[[file:InVisionCommentary.jpg|thumb|250px|In-vision commentary for ''[[Doomsday]]'']]
-An '''in-vision commentary''' is a [[commentary]] in which the participants are filmed, and the resulting video is dropped within the video of the episode on which they're commenting.  Such commentaries were a major feature of the [[series 2 (Doctor Who)|series 2]] boxset, but they were not extensively used thereafter.
+An '''in-vision commentary''' was a [[commentary]] in which the participants were filmed, and the resulting video was dropped within the video of the episode on which they were commenting.  This then allowed the viewer to divine extra meaning by reading the facial expressions of the participants as they commented, and overcame the occasional problem encountered on audio commentaries of participants making visual references.  Such commentaries were a major feature of the [[series 2 (Doctor Who)|series 2]] boxset, but they were not extensively used thereafter.
 However, a form of "video commentary" was later used on the official ''Doctor Who'' website, as a part of the [[Adventure Calendar]] series.  These commentaries differed from the ones on the DVD boxset, in that they were simply recordings of the commentary participants; no footage from the actual episodes was included.  Indeed, most of these "in-vision commentaries" were later repurposed as simple audio commentaries either in the [[podcast]] series of commentaries used in the [[RTD]] era, or on the DVD boxsets.  Nevertheless, they were labeled "in vision commentary" on their respective title cards.