Voice-overs

Looking at our opening so far, we have realised it could be seen as quite confusing. we have made the flashback clips black & white, and the whats made to seem like current clips of Charlotte lying in a field colour so people could distinguish the difference but we were thinking about ways to make it more obvious.

A voiceover could be a really good idea. It could improve the viewers understanding, whether its by giving loads of information, or very little. But whatever is said is going to be important to what is going on in our footage, making it easier to comprehend.

Here is the opening to trainspotting:



A voiceover is used in trainspotting as there is a chase going on in its opening scene. There is the use of music in the background which is also an option for our opening. We could make music to accompany the voiceover in the background with a dipped volume, to add tension. We could have the voiceover, and pause where music can fill the gap, or another idea was that we could just simply have a voiceover with eerie silences involved.

Here is the opening to mean girls:



There is a voiceover used every now and then throughout this film to update the viewer on what's going on.

Here is also a clip where another voiceover is used, this is one of my favourite films, The Emperors New Groove.



The voiceover at the beginning provides vital information to what the rest of the film is about, this is similar to our film as we are going to make the information we put in the voiceover important to the viewer.

We haven't decided on a voiceover yet, but I definitely think its an option because although we don't want the viewer to understand what has happened in our opening, we need the viewer to be interested and not completely confused within the first 2 minutes of a film.