Narration- Amelie

I am considering using simple narration over the top of some of the clips in my short film. However, there are many ways to do narration, and I need to make it interesting and follow the 1-5 second long clips that will play with it.

I recently watched the film "Amelie", which at the beginning of the film narrates over the scene describing the characters. However, it is not narrated in the traditional and obvious way by telling the audience a kind of prologue to catch them up to where the story begins; instead it describes each character in simple adjectives and a couple of their unconventional likes and dislikes.

I did some research via search engine to find the script from Amelie to see examples of this form of narrating over a film, so this image is from the Amelie script that I found on http://www.scribd.com/doc/249087771/Amelie-Screenplay#scribd. It shows the narrator describing Raphael's likes and dislikes. I love this form of narration as it is unusual yet simple and I think the technique would fit well over my film as I could correspond each part of the narration to the clip playing. 

Here is a clip I found on YouTube displaying Amelie's likes:

At the beginning of the clip it describes Amelie's favourite things to do in basic narration with a corresponding clip. I love this form of editing as it shows basic skills but looks stunning on screen. If I were to use this editing technique in my own film it would fit really well with the rest of my one-second clips going into more detail about the characters' lives away from their favourite/least favourite things, but makes a point about those too to have plot.

Amelie is an avant garde film that inspires me a lot for my own film; I love the various techniques used and would love to take the inspiration forward into my own work.