The Voice Over - Influences

We decided to have a voiceover in our trailer, to add to the emphasise of it and to introduce and establish the characters and let the audience know a little about the themes, genre and story of the film.

We started by looking at trailers in our genre which had voice overs. Here is what we found:

In the Goodfellas trailer we found that it was the protagonist (Henry Hill) as the voiceover; talking about his life and informing the audience what the story is about. Also there is a second voice over at the end of the trailer which gives the synopsis of the film. 

In The Godfather Part 2 trailer we have a single voice in the voiceover. This voice over introduces the characters and gives away some of the themes of the film as well as some background information about some of the things we will see in the film, such as when he says 'Both had seen the ones they loved cut down before their eyes' it switches to a scene of a woman holding a knife to another mans throat before being shot in front of a little boy. From this we can tell that the woman is Vitos mother. It also gives us information of the two main characters as well as the settings of the film (When it is said 'Revolution in Havanna and rub outs in New York').  

For our voiceover we believe that a voiceover like the one from The Godfather Part 2 would be best suited for our film as like The Godfather Part 2 we also have two main characters. It would be difficult to follow the Goodfellas voiceover style as we would have to have half of the voice over as one character and the other half as the other character. Also a single voiceover from someone outside the two main characters would provide a neutral emphasise on what is being presented.