So I never realized how much thought could be put into voice-over narration, but I guess someone could say the same thing about a bridge built by an engineer. In the first article, “Introduction”, there was an actual definition laid out for how to categorize a movie that has voice-over narration. In the second article, Kozloff goes into the argument between the importance of using or not using voice-over narration.

People might object to using voice-over narration for a few reasons. The main one is that if done a certain way, the movie condescends to the audience because it is directly telling the viewer what is occurring rather than showing it. Some directors feel that it is less artistic. Kozloff defends the use of voice-over narration because no one else rarely does and she feels that directors use the technique all the time without expressing their appreciation. To defend it, she defines the technique and then show how it made certain movies better.

I am actually not very familiar with voice-over narration, I feel like the person in her first article that recognizes what it is once it has been defined.  I realize when it’s been used but I don’t normally make an effort of analyzing the technique.  Initially, I was enthusiastic about using “Singing in the Rain” for my sequence one writing because it was a movie specifically about voice-over and the time period when it started being used, but after reading the articles I am having second thoughts.  I’m not exactly sure what I am going to do, I’ll see if “Singing in the Rain” could bring a different perspective to the paper rather than the stereotypical movies that students have done papers on.  We’ll see.