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Veronica Mars (2004)

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DZ-110: Voiceover

How can you use voiceover without it feeling like a cheat?

AI✦Analyses how Veronica Mars uses voiceover to establish and sustain noir tone while anchoring the audience closer to the protagonist than to other characters in the scene--creating asymmetrical knowledge that enhances empathy without positioning the narrator as unreliable.✦

⏱ 1h 41m

31 MAY 2024

Character · Audience · Words

Listen to explore how voiceover can set tone, reveal character, enhance empathy, and create tension.

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Films: The Emperor's New Groove (2000) , Pain & Gain (2013) , Veronica Mars (2004)

Shows: Veronica Mars 1x1

Character: Character Motivation , Unreliable Narrator

Audience: Audience Sympathy , Tension

Words: Voiceover

"If she wants us to catch up to her, she gives us a flashback. And if she wants us, I mean, at no point, I think from memory, I mean, I only watched it earlier this afternoon, but at no point does she put the audience ahead of her, which is different to the other examples that we’re looking at."

— chas | DZ-110: Voiceover

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