Narration

After researching different films which similarly featured the narration in the prologue or first scene (here), Alex and I worked on the narration for our film. As part of our planning, we came up with two scripts and spent time saying our script over the visuals itself to see which worked better and then to work on a plan of our entire film as if we were creating the whole thing, to see which would work better as a narrative.


Script 1-
They always say 'what you don't know won't hurt you', but in this instance, 'they' are wrong because it did hurt me...a lot.
[pause]
It's kind of complicated to explain so I'm going to have to show you.
It all started on the day of my job interview.


Script 2-
You that body on the floor? That's me. And yes I am speaking to you right now as you watch me on the floor. It's  not my fault I'm there by the way and I guess you want to know how I got there. It started on the day of my job interview.

Both scripts we created end with a reference to a job interview. This explains why the character gets prepared in a smart suit with a briefcase.
Script 1 is less chatty compared to no.2 and the first also includes a quote of importance which refers to the films plot 'what you don't know won't hurt you'. Many films use a quote in their first narration.
Because the first script explains that they have been hurt in a way, this is a form of the Enigma Code as the audience want to know what has happened to them for them to be in that situation. The first script covers enough information for the audience to understand and relate to the character narrating but not enough for them to leave the film as they will have to continue watching to find out.

Even though both scripts are short, if we include too much information to last the whole prologue which is roughly 52 seconds, this could be dragged out and cause the audience to get bored especially if it ends up repeating it's self. It would have been better if this was longer, but as everything in condensed into 2 minutes compared to big production films, our narration stays this length and in this form.

After a few practises to see which one fitted better, Alex and I decided on the first script for our production.
We used the same actor who features in our film to narrate. This is the only piece of dialogue we used throughout our film as it does not require any dialogue in the 'preperation' scene or in the scene where the character is dead on the floor.
As our school does not have professional recording equipment and Alex and I could not get hold of any, we used the Macs which were available for us. Because of the small room t he macs are in, there is a slight echo in the narration we filmed but there was no way of overcoming this. It sounds a bit too prepared and unnatural because of the quality and actors voice, but there was no way of overcoming this.