Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 43 views

    Veiwing Guide

    Uploaded by

    Cooper Leavey
    This document provides a guide to the film The Truman Show by listing key events in the film, character descriptions, important aesthetic features, quotes, and possible themes. It summarizes the main character Truman's realization that his life is actually a TV show as he tries to leave his town but traffic is blocked, and describes the director Christof who sees Truman as a child. It also notes the artificial, prison-like setting and uses of camera techniques, lighting, product placement, and music to portray a fabricated world.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Veiwing Guide

    Uploaded by

    Cooper Leavey
    43 views1 page
    This document provides a guide to the film The Truman Show by listing key events in the film, character descriptions, important aesthetic features, quotes, and possible themes. It summarizes the main character Truman's realization that his life is actually a TV show as he tries to leave his town but traffic is blocked, and describes the director Christof who sees Truman as a child. It also notes the artificial, prison-like setting and uses of camera techniques, lighting, product placement, and music to portray a fabricated world.

    Original Title

    VEIWING GUIDE

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document provides a guide to the film The Truman Show by listing key events in the film, character descriptions, important aesthetic features, quotes, and possible themes. It summarizes the main character Truman's realization that his life is actually a TV show as he tries to leave his town but traffic is blocked, and describes the director Christof who sees Truman as a child. It also notes the artificial, prison-like setting and uses of camera techniques, lighting, product placement, and music to portray a fabricated world.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    43 views1 page

    Veiwing Guide

    Uploaded by

    Cooper Leavey
    This document provides a guide to the film The Truman Show by listing key events in the film, character descriptions, important aesthetic features, quotes, and possible themes. It summarizes the main character Truman's realization that his life is actually a TV show as he tries to leave his town but traffic is blocked, and describes the director Christof who sees Truman as a child. It also notes the artificial, prison-like setting and uses of camera techniques, lighting, product placement, and music to portray a fabricated world.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 1

    MY GUIDE TO THE TRUMAN SHOW

    Key Events Character list and description Important aesthetic features Key Quotes Massive list of possible thematic
    intentions
    Could not go to job because he is scarred of Truman – The setting is very artificial with all the same We except the world we are given. Feels like a prison
    water. The star of a show looking houses. “If I don’t see you good evening, good
    Sylvia is taken away on the beach. Hidden cameras afternoon and good night”
    Tunes into the radio for the show. Product placement
    Truman figures out the actors go in loops. Wide angle lenses
    He tries to leave and suddenly traffic Unusual camera angles
    blocked his way. Shooting through oval or circular mask
    Special cameras hidden in more mobile and
    surprising places.
    The lighting is very artificial and gives a false
    Christof – sense of perfection.
    Director Truman dresses himself so he is not so
    clean.
    Turman wears stripes like a prisoner.
    Trumans suit is brown when everyone else
    is grey.
    The travel agency the posters are negative.
    Christof touches Trumans face because he
    sees him as a child.
    When Christof touches Trumans face
    Truman is show very large on a screen, this
    shows how Christof has made something
    larger than himself.
    Meryl –
    When Truman sees the fake elevator, the
    lighting sees duller.
    The music is dark when his dad comes back
    into the show.
    Most of the film uses diegetic sounds.

    Sylvia –
    She is an actress.

    You might also like