narrating
Telling a story
Narrating is telling a story or providing commentary over events as they unfold.
A narrator narrates a documentary, audiobook, or film.
Someone narrating their own experience recounts it aloud: She kept narrating everything she was doing.
The term often implies a continuous spoken account rather than conversation or dialogue.
Spoken or written narrative
- storyAccount of events
- yarnTwisted strand for crafts
- anecdoteBrief account of incident
- fableMoral tale with animals
myth · legend · lore · parable · allegory · epic · saga · plot
Off-screen recorded speech
- footageRecorded video material
- filmmakerOne who makes movies
- documentaryFactual film about reality
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
director · script · edit · production · montage · interview · archive · biopic
Instructional step-by-step guide
- voiceoverOff-screen recorded speech
- walkthroughSequential instructional guide
- how-toPractical instruction format
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
explainer · guide · educational · step-by-step · training video · screencast · e-learning · instructional video
One who peruses text
- recordingCaptured audio or video
- voice actorPerformer behind animated characters
- chapterDivision of a book
- listeningAttending to sound
performance · abridged · unabridged · studio · pacing · character voices · dramatization
Real-time event narration
- sportscasterBroadcasts athletic events
- broadcasterOne who transmits programs
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- color commentarySupplementary broadcast narration
analyst · pundit · live · real-time · game · match · event · blow-by-blow
tale
Spoken or written narrative
fable · myth · legend · lore · parable · allegory · epic · saga · plot · fiction
voiceover
Off-screen recorded speech
- footageRecorded video material
- filmmakerOne who makes movies
- documentaryFactual film about reality
cinematography · director · script · edit · production · montage · interview · archive · biopic · scene
tutorial
Instructional step-by-step guide
- voiceoverOff-screen recorded speech
- walkthroughSequential instructional guide
- how-toPractical instruction format
demonstration · explainer · guide · educational · step-by-step · training video · screencast · e-learning · instructional video
reader
One who peruses text
- recordingCaptured audio or video
- voice actorPerformer behind animated characters
- chapterDivision of a book
listening · performance · abridged · unabridged · studio · pacing · character voices · dramatization
play-by-play
Real-time event narration
- sportscasterBroadcasts athletic events
- broadcasterOne who transmits programs
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
color commentary · analyst · pundit · live · real-time · game · match · event · blow-by-blow · ringside
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation
- writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
- audio tasksrecording, mixing, editing, mastering, playback
- speaking practiceconversation, role play, role-play, fluency, drills
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- communicatingtalking, speaking, telling, sharing, expressing
narratingsaying nothing
keeping quiet · muting · silencing · speechlessness · miming
narratingexperiencing
Living through firsthand
living · enacting · performing · acting · participating
- narrative poemStory told in verse
- personal narrativeSelf-told life account
- third-person narrationStorytelling from outside perspective
- change the narrative
- narrative arcStory's overall shape
- narrative voiceWho speaks the story