Narration

Narration is when there is a voice over for a film that explains to the audience how the actor is feeling or telling them the story, it can be anything.  It normally isn’t used in horror films, more like romance, comedy and some drama. Narration can be helpful when the story line is really confusing because it helps the audience understand what is going on.
 
There is narration in quite a few films such as, Big Fish, Lemony Snicket, The Twilight Saga,  these films are all either drama's, children's romance or comedy films. 

Usually in film its the narrator looking back on their childhood, the narrator has to have a clear distinctive voice so the audience can tell when its the narrator speaking. The voice also has to be interesting so you can happily sit and listen to the them for hours. A good narrator is Don Lafontaine, he became identified with the phrase "In a world...", used in so many movie trailers that it became a cliché. Widely known in the film industry, the man whose nicknames included "Thunder Throat" and "The Voice of God", became known to a wider audience through commercials for GEICO insurance and the Mega Millions lottery game.

I don't think I will use narration in my coursework because I want the storyline to be really confusing where nothing is explained so it will leave the audience wanting to find out more and leave them wanting to find out the answers.