Revisiting a House of Nooks and Crannies is a lovely story about a house by Francine Prose in the New York Times. It’s so visual, it would be a perfect example of a video story with Prose as the narrator ONLY if you were with her on her journey to visit the place and could shoot inside.
Wait, Prose as the narrator? I thought you didn’t like narrators?
Ahh, not true. I don’t like narrators when they pretend to be
- #1) the voice of god,
- #2) talk and act like they know more than their subjects
But this story is perfect for a narrator because no one can tell the stories of these memories as well as the person who lived in the house. And it helps that she writes so lovingly and with such great detail about the house. (Which is why we shoot details for powerful video, in the same way she uses such rich detail in this story.)
Here’s a shot of Prose with her brother Neil in front of their childhood house in Brooklyn, NY in the mid 1950′.
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