The written narration feels forced, grasping at feelings and drama that just aren't there.
For the Collegiate Chorale performance, Robert Bass, the group's conductor, has connected the musical numbers with a freshly written narration.
The opening photograph of the photo-essay established the situation, and as with written narration there was a visual climax and a definite conclusion.
"Caught in the Crossfire," like many documentaries in the Frederick Wiseman tradition, eschews virtually all spoken or written narration, relying solely on what the camera recorded.
The eloquence of the interview subjects -- and the clips -- have a power that the written narration, which tends to sound like an "All Things Considered" segment, often lacks.
The film emerges as a provocative moral inquiry but also as a vivid portrait of a place and time, informed by Ms. Barret's gentle, personal rumination (with a beautifully written narration by Fenton Johnson, a Kentucky novelist).
Whatever Ushpiz's stakes in the movie may be, they remain unclear; she never comes out from behind the curtain, never speaks, never intervenes even with written narration, but controls the film and its speakers like an offstage puppeteer pulling strings of steel.
The historical documentaries are more successful than the cultural ones, for having a better story to tell, but all are made in a similar style, without written narration, driven by news clips and interviews (with scholars, participants and celebrity rememberers, Hanks naturally included).
The child and the therapist sign the written narration.
The researcher went back with the written narration for verification followed by any further probing identified as needed by the research team.
