From the first lines of narration from a 16-year-old girl named Riley Katherine Townee), you can hear the show straining to be cool.
Try to keep that in mind as you listen to the opening lines of narration in this first full-length trailer, which sound worryingly documentarian.
Each line of the narration that permeates the film is taken directly from one of Baldwin's texts or letters.
At that point, we'll write it into the script--maybe a couple lines of action narration, maybe a couple paragraphs describing the hack.
"Wide Awake" shows Mr. Berliner in the process of working and reworking his own material: rehearsing a line, revising a passage of narration, cutting tape, giving directions to the camera crew, playing with the sequence of shots, messing with sound cues, manipulating music and manically, meticulously preserving images from newspapers for his archive.
So drawing one sentence from each book had its own natural rhythm: a long sentence of narration from Fitzgerald, a line of dialogue from Hemingway, and an attribution to a Faulknerian character.
Gifford provided a bass line of reliable play-by-play narration, but left room for Meredith to deliver his knowing cornpone and Cosell his coruscating observations.
Cognitive ability is to be assessed by scales of narration, description, exposition, argumentation, instruction and interaction.
A few lines of voice-over narration don't really do the trick, and the occasional use of the camera as a first-person device, as in Robert Montgomery's "Lady in the Lake," in which the camera takes the hero's point of view throughout — and even gets sucker-punched and blacks out — seems more silly than expressive.
(There's lots of narration).
