Film Language Tag: voiceover narration

1. Dialogue that originates from a source that is not part of a scene (it does not come from an actor assumed to be in the scene being shown, even if the character is off-camera), such as narration, a character's thoughts, audio flashbacks, etc.; a non-diegetic sound; a disembodied voice that plays over the picture. 2.(voiceover) A person not seen (and who may not belong to the physical world shown in the film) talks directly to the viewer. 1. Kroon, R. W. A/V a to z: An encyclopedic dictionary of media, entertainment and other Audiovisual terms. McFarland, 2014. 2. Buhler, James and David Neumeyer. Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History. Oxford UP, 2015.


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