Truman show film analysis cards
A medium shot
A Medium Shot is often used to introduce a character for the first time. A Medium Shot places the top of the frame just above the character's head and the bottom of the frame just below the waist.
Low angle shot
A camera shot from a low angle, looking up on the actions. This is often used to show the superiority of a character or characters.
close up shot
A shot in which a small detail or a face fills the frame, taken either by setting the camera close to the subject or by using a long focal-length lens. In relation to a human subject, close-up usually refers to a shot of the face alone although, of course, there may be close-ups of hands or feet, or any other part of the body.
Traffic
All traffic is on a constant loop is never busy or suspiciously quite very little traffic and evryone obeys the road rules - The ideal driving space
Houses
All very similar, Had a holiday look and appeal, All clean and undamaged, Meticulous presentation, Manicured lawns.All wealthy houses representing the ideal class. - Real enough that it was realistic fake enough to be fictional.
An extreme close up
An Extreme Close-up is often used to reveal a character's feelings WITHOUT using dialogue. An Extreme Close-up Shot is often used to provide the audience with a view of a specific detail.
Cristof
Driven by fear afraid of losing Truman. Loves truman sees himself as a father figure and god of Trumans world. THinks he is protecting Truman inevitably Truly Encaging him in his own private world.
Work places
Everyone busy, intense, cramped, ideal stereotypical rough boring working place with harsh boss. Its not possible to reach perfection without working for it. American dream - Hard work pays off.
Truman Burbank Director Cristof
Main charachter Truman + True Man Peter Wier Chrst off
An establishing shot
Shows the setting of the scene that follows so viewers are aware of where the action takes place.
Ariel View shot
Shows the subject from a birds eye viewpoint often important to show the location or he setting of a scene.
A long shot
Shows the whole subject a person from head to foot or the entire car. Any of theses shots can show one subject or more at the same time.
Neighbors
Stereotypical friendly happy neigbhours - Ideal neoighbours were they always care - Black neighbours very ironic.
The Truman show
Story of how a man, Truman, has been the star of a reality show for his entire life without him knowing, eventually becomes suspicious and decides to try to leave and boat cuts through set
Synopsis
Synopsis Truman Burbank has the feeling that he's being watched. He doesn't know how right he is. Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary soap -opera in history. The picture perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden television cameras. Welcome to 'The Truman Show'. The whole world is watching
Lauren
The girl who fell n love with Truman and tried to tell him his life is a lie
1940s
The social and clothing landscape. Time after world war two. Land was full of national pride.- Cristof chosen things from all generations
Time and place
"I always thought of the film as taking place twenty years or so in the future, and that Christof the show's creator would hove created an idealised environment for Seahaven based on elements from the past that he particularly admired.
High angle shot
shows the subject from above, i.e. the camera is angled down towards the subject. This has the effect of diminishing the subject, making them appear less powerful, less significant or even submissive
Tracking
when the camera actually moves to keep up with the action.
Soft and harsh light
manipulates viewers attitudes towards a setting or a character; used to make objects, environments, and people look beautiful or ugly, soft or harsh, artificial or real
Streetscaped and facades
organised, symmetrical, empty shells of buildings, no construction or repairs, change is not neccesary because cristof has reached perfection
costumes
Wendy Stites says, "Truman Burbank is the only person on 'The Truman Show' that dresses himself- the others are all dressed by the wardrobe department of the television show - so I wanted his look to be a bit different, not quite as polished."
Panning
When the camera is moved horizontally from left to right or right to left
Tilting
a camera movement that scans a scene vertically
mis en scene
both teh staging of the action and the way it is photographed within the frame. Can likewise refer to all you see in the frame: props, costumes, etc.
Eye level shot
made from the observer's eye level and usually implies the camera's attitude toward the subject being photographed.