What is Narration?
Narration is the commentary describing and following the events happening in a story for the audience to understand better.
How was the narration used in our scene?
In our group we are planning to perform a play about a family of refugees that were forced to flee their home that has become a war-zone and are being escorted by a foreign military to safety. Our story starts with the narrator, who is also acting out the role of a confused child, writing down the events happening to him in a diary while walking behind his parents. We can hear him reading "the war has begun 4 days ago and we were forced to make a journey with my parents to the rescue plane". He continues to narrate the events that happen after the group of refugees reach the plane shortly after, goes on to describe how the family feels and how it is on the plane until he closes his diary.
What effect did you want the narration to have on your audience?
We wanted to make it seem like the kid walking in the desert really is the narrator but grown up now and the performance is of his memories. The story and the voice accompanying it is a flashback the kid is having as he reads what he wrote down on that day when he was journeying away from the war-zone.
How did the narration work in your performance? Was it successful?
The narrator in our group was Moody, who was also portraying the child nagging behind the refugee group. The kid was behind because he was busy writing down the events that forced him to flee his home, which he reads out to make the scene feel like a flashback. Moody pretended to scribble in his big notebook while trailing towards the rescue plane with his family. It was successful and we managed to make creative use of narration in our performance.
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