Voice-Over Justification Analysis

Evaluate whether voice-over is justified for this story:

Story: {{story_summary}}
Proposed Voice-Over Usage: {{proposed_usage}}
Genre: {{genre}}

Voice-Over Audit:

1. NECESSITY TEST
- Can this information be shown instead of told?
- What would be lost without voice-over?
- Is it a crutch or a choice?

2. FUNCTION EVALUATION
- Ironic counterpoint to image?
- Access to internal state impossible to show?
- Time compression?
- Thematic commentary?
- Unreliable narrator effect?

3. ALTERNATIVES EXPLORED
- Rewrite key moments without voice-over
- What visual/behavioral solutions exist?

4. IF VOICE-OVER IS JUSTIFIED
- What is the voice (character, perspective, tense)?
- Where does it appear and disappear?
- How is it distinct from dialogue?

5. SAMPLE COMPARISON
- Write a scene with voice-over
- Write the same scene without
- Which is stronger and why?

Recommend: Use voice-over / Find alternative / Hybrid approach