How To Write A Commentary

A commentary is a little bit different from a review which is what some people think a commentary and a review are the same; but they're not because in a review, you give your opinion. The basic purpose of a review is to say whether you liked it, hated it, and a little bit about it as well. When you're writing a commentary, you're really analyzing the piece of work and you're saying what happened in it.

You might talk about who the characters are, what the setup is, what the place is. You might unfold the story, how the plot works. It's basically a factual piece that goes through the story and tells the person reading it that you know what is in that story and have read it properly and thought about it.

You can also get commentaries from DVDs where the director of the film will talk about the film, about why they made certain decisions about how the actors were feeling during the film and talking about how the plot and structure works, how the film is put together. So, it's really a piece of analysis. You're looking analytically at a piece of writing or film or a poem, and you're trying to explain how it works in a way that is easily read and communicated to the reader.

If it's an academic piece of work, you know who your audience is. You're writing for your tutor or the examiner. But you can have commentaries that are addressed to other audiences and it's always very important to think about who your audience is.

You don't want to be over-analytical if it's for a general audience. You don't want to be too intellectual if it is for a more lowbrow audience. So, it's really important that you think about who is going to listen to this commentary before you write it.

And that's how to write a commentary. .