For a director, he should have adept production skills; and for a good film andtelevision work, it should have the classic dialogue, beautiful lines, actors’ superbperforming arts. Voiceover is means of artistic expression for good film and televisionwork. It uses voices. The audience could only hear the sound but seeing nobody.Directors usually use this kind of “offscreen voice” to describe the characters of hisworks. It cooperates with the dialogue in order to express the theme of its works andreflect characters’ feelings. The speaker usually doesn’t appear on the screen. Theaudience could understand the background of the story to further analyze the plotaccording to voiceover. Lots of figures of speech are used in My Chief and MyRegiment and Soldiers Sortie such as metaphor, rhetorical repetition, description,rhetoric question and so on. Narrator itself has strong artistic value and rhetoric value. |