In this week we watched different excerpts from the documentaries to discuss the different way they use to narrate and voiceover. For the first documentary of Night Parrot Stories (2016), the narration is super episodic, the content of its narration might not match the footage but it still works very well to bring the emotion to audience — the peaceful and graceful tone and the content with the slow pace footage together creates the calm feeling. Moreover I love the narration of Wide Awake (2005). It narrates the insomnia symptoms in character’s perspective and it narrates in a funny way to tell a story to engage the audience, also the narration matches the archival footage so well to make the film easier to understand.
Since I want to make a calm and contemplate feeling in my film, I want to make my voiceover simply but kinda poetic and narrate them in a very calm tone. For the first chapter I want to narrate what water means to us in the perspective of human, and this will match the footage of how we use water daily. The second chapter I want to write the poetic narration of how water comes from, and then back to narrate what water means to us to bring the ironic feeling with the water pollution footage.
narration:
1.
water
water
water
water is essential to life, without water there is no animal or vegetable alive.
From the history we know we use water and enjoy water in many ways,
we water our flowers,
we water the fields,
we cook, we go swimming and surfing
we use water everywhere in our lives
water feeds us
water brings us happiness
Praise the water, it brings more than ever
2.
water comes from the rain, water comes from the sky, water comes from the earth
water becomes river and ocean
water becomes essential to life, without water there is no animal or vegetable alive.
water feeds us
water brings us happiness
Praise the water, it brings more than ever
Reference list:
Night Parrot Stories. 2016. [film]. Directed by Robert Nugent
Wide Awake. 2006. [film]. Directed by Alan Berliner