Narration...

A narrator, within any story, is the fictional or non-fictional, personal or impersonal entity who tells the story to the audience. When the narrator is also a character within the story, he or she is sometimes known as the viewpoint character. The narrator is one of the three entities responsible for story-telling of any kind. The others are the author and audience; the latter called the 'reader' when referring specifically to literature.

In the case of my media film, I am using narration through Eliza, therefore making her the viewpoint character. The effect of doing this is that straight away the audience is able to relate to and empathise with her character, just through her dialogue.

A narrator may tell the story from his own point of view (as a fictive entity) or from the point of view of one of the characters in the story. The act or process of this is referred to as narration. Along with exposition, argumentation, and description, narration (broadly defined) is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, narration is the fiction-writing mode whereby the narrator communicates directly to the reader.

In my media film, I have chosen to not show the character of Eliza within the opening sequence to establish an element of the unknown for the audience. The aim of my opening is to leave the audience asking questions and to want to watch further, which is or should be the aim of all film-makers.