Voice Over's

Our group has been discussing the idea of possibly using a voice over rather than just music for the opening of our film. We think this will be effective because it will make the story easier for the audience to understand as it may be quite unclear at the moment. It has also been successful in other films such as Mean Girls and Usual Suspects.
We were thinking about what the voice over could be and some of our ideas were
* Charlotte explaining to a friend her night
* Charlotte's thoughts
* A police interview
* Narration

We all agreed that the police interview would probably be the most effective type of voice over so we could have them asking questions about her night and she can either explain each flashback as it happens or she could remain silent for the whole interview and just say something at the end that stuns the audience.

An example of a voice over used in an opening of a film is Mean Girls. The main character Kadie has to explain her first day of school and why she is only just starting at the age of 16. She uses photographs from her past to illustrate it whilst she is talking about it over the top.

Mean Girls -



Another film that I just recently watched was "The Beach" with Leonardo Di Caprio. I really enjoyed this film and thought all of the camera angles and movements made it a really interesting film. It also related to research for our own film because the beginning starts with a voice over. This voiceover is crucial to the opening of the film because without him explaining where he is and why he is there the opening would not make much sense to the viewer. At the moment this is the kind of problem we have with our film, that it is hard to understand what is happening so by having a voice over in our own film hopefully it will create a similar effect and help our audience understand the film.

This is the opening to The Beach with the voiceover:



This is the trailer to The Beach: