Use of Narration

A narrator may tell the story from his own point of view (as a fictive entity) or from the point of view of one of the characters in the story. The act or process of telling the particulars of a story is referred to as narration.


One film in particular that I can think of which includes a narrator is Stranger Than Fiction in which the main character's life is narrator by the woman who is writing a story that turns out to be his exact life. The story line was rather intelligent and very original, nothing like I've watched before. Below is a video clip from the film, showing some of the narration.






MK12 // Stranger Than Fiction: Opening from MK12 on Vimeo.


I like the idea of having narration in my short film, which is why I am further inclined to create a mockumentary as a large number of them have some sort of voice-over rather than a narration of the story.