“the torch” #10 – in the crux: voice-over narration

There's a call going out this week from Sinema's column “The Torch” as its sub-series “in the crux” voices a simple and clear-cut demand: let images speak! If your medium of choice be in the realm of all things visual and their power to speak out for you as a genuine act of self-expression, why not trust in that very power to communicate and convincingly tell your story to the full? What if anything can be won by applying the peculiar technique of voice over narration to a film's on-screen unfolding? In the limelight are the numerous implications to this particular technical aspect of film making, a challenging discussion is opened up of whether it is really that simple to create visual poetry by textually giving a voice to moving images? You can follow the line of argumentation for yourself: here.

(pic©mo)