narrations
Vocal story deliveries
Narrations are acts of telling a story or giving an account of events.
The word covers both the process and the product—the telling itself and the resulting account: The documentary relied on survivor narrations.
In media production, narrations are the spoken commentary accompanying visuals: We recorded the narrations in a single afternoon.
Record of past events
- timelineOrdered display of events
- recordsStored data or albums
- archivesStored historical documents
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
logbook · memoirs · journals · accounts · annals · chronology · register · compilation
"I" as narrator
- third-personGrammatical category for others
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
- limitedRestricted in extent
- unreliableNot consistently performing
stream-of-consciousness · subjective · objective · point-of-view · viewpoint · focalization · retrospective
Spoken or written narrative
- anecdoteBrief account of incident
- yarnTwisted strand for crafts
- raconteurSkilled storyteller
- bardPoet of epics
griot · campfire · recitation · audiobook · storyteller · fabulist · epic · saga
Written words for performance
- recordingCaptured audio or video
- studioCreative professional's workspace
- microphoneAudio input device
- talentInborn aptitude
inflection · intonation · diction · cadence · dialogue · monologue · audio · dubbing
Methodical study of parts
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- explanationStatement making something clear
- annotationAdded explanatory comment
editorial · observation · reflection · assessment · exposition · discourse · elucidation · explication
history
Record of past events
documentation · logbook · memoirs · journals · accounts · annals · chronology · register · compilation · dossier
first-person
"I" as narrator
- third-personGrammatical category for others
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
- limitedRestricted in extent
unreliable · stream-of-consciousness · subjective · objective · point-of-view · viewpoint · focalization · retrospective
tale
Spoken or written narrative
bard · griot · campfire · recitation · audiobook · storyteller · fabulist · epic · saga · myth
script
Written words for performance
- recordingCaptured audio or video
- studioCreative professional's workspace
- microphoneAudio input device
talent · inflection · intonation · diction · cadence · dialogue · monologue · audio · dubbing · documentary
analysis
Methodical study of parts
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- explanationStatement making something clear
annotation · editorial · observation · reflection · assessment · exposition · discourse · elucidation · explication · gloss
- Hadithhadith, hadiths, Muslim, matn, canonical works
- clarityclearness, clear, obvious, simplification, concise
narrationssilence
Total lack of sound
silences · silent reading · muteness · wordlessness · raw footage
narrationsdemonstrations
Public displays of opinion
depictions · enactments · dramatizations · visual storytelling · showing
- third-person narrationStorytelling from outside perspective
- audio narration
- first-person narrationStory from speaker's viewpoint
- audiobook narrationVocal delivery of written text
- voice narrationSpoken account over visuals
- voiceover narrationSpoken words over visuals