Use of Narration

The main purpose of narration is to tell a story through a series of events. This is a very important and
significant aspect of any story or film, as it's the main thing that draws the audience into it. It can be used in many different formats, but the typical 'voice-over' is the most common of these, and is usually used as a non-diegetic sound, however it has been known in some cases for films to play around with this, and use different methods of narration, such as using the actors in a freeze frame shot to tell the story.

Narration has become very popular over-time, and has been used in a range of Medias, including music videos- the famous Michael Jackson video, 'Thriller' and also TV Series- Desperate Housewives.
Vincent Price an actor known for his work on horror films does the narration, including the evil laugh at the end of the video, which made the video even more unique and interesting, as this was a rather new thing to do in music videos in 1980's.

In my own short film, I am not planning on including any narrative, as I believe my idea is pretty straight forward, and easy to follow, so if I did include narrative I think it would over complicate things too much, and distract the viewers. However I do think that narrative suits my chosen genre very well, (horror) as it gives it an eerie presence and can emphasise the horror involved.