Audio vs. Visual
I am searching for quotes and lines that will successfully serve as a backdrop of voiceover for the piece, not to exactly match the visuals in physical description, but to match in emotional content. The narration will support the visuals as equally as the visuals support the narration. I don’t want one to overcome the other, but for both to be essential to final outcome and understanding of the work.
These quotes will be threaded together with voiceover, and music. The audio will be a dynamic layering of voice, music, and sound efx, for the purpose of expressing that this was an experience endured not by just one person, but by many.
This is the reasoning behind my not choosing just one persons story as the narration. Also by choosing quotes from many different accounts while simultaneously showing ONE place, one cabin, one room, I hope to illustrate an understanding of the common thread of the slave’s painful existence.