Voiceover/Narration

CMP Project 2 – Voiceover/Narration

For our moving image piece, we are going to include a voiceover consisting of our parents and grandparents talking about their journeys of immigration to the UK.

To do this, we will casually interview our relatives, letting them freely tell their story. Firstly, we will ask them simply to:

‘Tell your story of coming to the UK’.

After this, we will ask more specific questions, such as:

-       ‘How did you feel when you arrived?’

-       ‘How did you feel leaving home?’

-       ‘What was the journey like?’

Deciding on these questions, we didn’t want to focus too heavily on the logistical manners of our relatives’ stories, but on how the process affected them on a more personal level, how leaving and arriving different places made them feel, in a deeper manner.

Some additional questions about first lodging and cultural differences will be asked if possible.

With these recordings, we will edit them to the video(s), relating the footage to the story and providing both context and a stronger final product. If making one video, we will intermittently and equally shift between the different stories and narratives. If making multiple videos, each recording will be used for each video, where each story is told separately, accompanying the different footage.