Voiceover or Quotation?!?!

We had finished fully editing our film and our initial idea was to have a voiceover although, the music had blended in so well with our shots that it almost hurt us to think about the audience not being able to hear the music well. We then thought of having a quotation instead which, could express the same feelings in a lot less words and with a lot less focus and concentration from the audience. We went on many websites to try and find the quotation and, finally we came across the perfect one which actually envisaged our plot aswell by, Vincent Van Gogh-''One may have a blazing hearth in one soul, yet no one comes to sit by it''. This foreshadowed the idea of Lee wanting someone to come and sit by him but, no one did even though the audience knew his character was someone who was open to loving someone yet no one came to him ignoring his ''blazing hearth'' in his soul. :(

By using a Vincent Van Gogh quote we are targetting an audience who would be quite art oriented making our film a niche product-something that is more for sundance or cannes film festival. When we tried to think of a film that also used this technique of a quote to set an emotional feeling with the audience we couldnt however, we did think of films that had narrative explanations at the beggining of films such as the star wars beginning or schindler's list. We subverted the technique and allowed our film to explore their emotions and Lee's emotions by using a genuine feel quote.