The document provides a literature review of the film The Truman Show. It discusses the context of the film, including how Christof created a fictional town called Seahaven and television show centered around Truman Burbank without his knowledge. It also analyzes techniques used in the film like camera shots, lighting, and sounds to emotionally manipulate Truman and the audience. Finally, it discusses the meaning and significance of the film, how it comments on issues of corporate control, consumerism, and restricting individual freedom and exploration.

1. Literature Review of Truman Show
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2. TASK 1
Topic: Literature Review of Truman Show
Context of Truman Show
Christof, created a tube show known as “The Truman Show,” this includes use of a talkie
style camera gives a revealing in that everything around Truman is fake. This only excludes his
personal his life and sentiments as being genuine. The actors Louis Coltrane and Hannah Gill,
who play as dégagé friend and Truman’s wife, separately, are in support Christof’s statement.
Truman Burbank (Jim Jim Carrey) doesn’t have the idea that secret cameras validate his life, this
makes him as one of the biggest worldwide Tube stars. He doesn't realize that Seahaven Island,
where he lives, is a giant TV sweatshop which is entirely controlled by Christof and his work
platoon. Tacks and the possession of Truman Show In the film “The Truman Show”, directed by
Peter Weir, multitudinous tacks are strategically used to situate the following to emotionally
respond to Truman Burbank.
Techniques and the Effects of Truman Show
Tacks resembling the music in the show, lighting, the camera shots and used angles are
in three different show scenes in the entire coordinated film by the director of the shows
Christof. He uses the same tacks in encouraging the show making the audience believe that what
they are watching is not only unscripted but also real. When Truman doesn't walk to his
sweatshop the show follows a respond with a sense of pride and great excitement. The camera
angle shots used in tracking Truman in every step he makes are of high precise angles making
his next moves be easily anticipated.

3. The tacks are positioned in respond to follow with great enthusiasm full of delightfulness
towards Truman and his overall skepticism of the world in which he lives in. It is no longer
given a perfect view and not seen as perfect. This Truman show gives a featuring of the ideology
of a paradise, commercialism including the media power, this is by multihued methods of
filming. Mise en scen is used by Weir to show the idea of a lotusland. Seahaven gives a perfect
littoral Cosmo polis in which everything seems as perfect. Seahaven setting is one of The
Truman Show Meaning and significance of Truman Show film.
Meaning and Significance of Truman Show
I Watched the Truman Show last night. I haven’t seen it since its cinematic debut in
1998 when I was in my first time at university and life was a thick book of possibility. I institute
the film amazing on first viewing, but I also took it at face value, missing its extended
communication all those ages ago because I was a naïve and flighty 20- age old who just wanted
to associate. It was not until I reanalyzed the film history, with 22 additional ages of life written
in my book, that I realized it's far more profound than I first believed. The Truman Show is
heavy-duty stuff, a simple story, heavy with conceit and communication, akin to a biblical
parable. There might as well be a Book of Truman in the Old Testament. It's perhaps one of the
most important dispatches ever conveyed in film. Let me explain what that dispatch is, and why
it’s so important to our lives.
Trumanism and the Corporate World
For those who may not have watched it, without spoilers, presently ’s a brief synopsis
Truman Burbank is a youthful wedded grown-up in the municipality of Seahaven, living an
ordinary 9 – 5 life, but unknown to him, he’s the star of a reality Tube show where everyone

4. around him is a paid actor, including his helpmate and formal friend. Putatively, the film is
concerned with Truman ’s expedition of discovery around these data. This is a conceit for the
naysayers in your life.
This negative attribution, what we could fashion as “Trumanism” can be constitute in
people all around us. Truman is a free and audacious spirit and throughout the film we're shown
retrospectives of his life, a history where he wanted to leave Seahaven but was always argued to
stay because everyone said “Outside is dangerous, why you want to leave such a perfect
cosmopolis?” It was a clear stay­in­lane command that was designed to reach into my soul and
dig it back into subordination. However, he’d have some hard questions to ask himself, and
people do not want to have to breast prickly factuality, if I left the office.
Trumanism and Adventure
In the film, a juvenile Truman tells his pedagogue he wants to be a wanderer, only to be
shown a world chart and told everything has before been discovered. As a grown­up at his mind’
end, Truman visits the peregrination agent to be bombarded with placards showing airplane
crashes and the multifold pitfalls of travelling abroad. I myself used to gulp at confidants for
travelling because they’d be “falling forward in their careers.” I cannot sound now how limited
my thinking was back either, but the sooth is I did not want them to go because they’d come
back with new stories and emprises I was not a part of, and I did not have the tenacity to travel
alone and make my own, new happenings.

5. TASK 2
Topic: Use of film techniques in the Truman Show to effectively convey the storyline.
Introduction
The Truman Show an American psychological comedy drama film created in 1998 can only be
defined by one word ‘Masterpiece’ ! Not only is its storyline one in a million but the meticulous
nature by which it was directed and produced makes the film deserve a place among the best of
best. One of the reasons for this is the use of film techniques in such a wise, tactful and clever
manner to achieve the desired outcomes, in the following ways.
a) Camera shots
Camera shots are often used to draw the viewers attention towards certain characters or
events happening on the screen. The first is a close-up camera shot. This is where one
character is in the shot. This draws the audience’s attention towards the character. In the
film this technique was often applied during advertisements. This is well displayed by
Hannah Gill when advertising the Chef’s Pal and Mococoa drink. These shots were often
accompanied by brief explanations on the product and its usage therefore captivating the
viewer. Another camera shot is the long shot which establishes the entire landscape,
location and setting. This was applied when Truman saw his father who he had believed
was already dead. The camera shot is then switched to a long shot to show how his
environment and the people around him worked together to distract him and prevent him
from seeing the father for example the large group of men who marched towards him.
This managed to dhow the viewer all the collective activities at once, which are his father
being taken away and Truman being distracted.

6. b) Camera angles
Use of camera angles is another technique that is employed very well. From keen
observation of the screen, Truman is often shot at a high angle where the camera position
is above him. This helps in creating the felling if vulnerability which goes hand in hand
with his character in the film, a controlled character. On the other hand Christof, the man
who created the world in which Truman is living in is often shot in a low camera angle
where the camera is below him. This angle portrays the character as powerful and in
control. This effect is very useful as Christof’s character is a powerful and controlling
one.
c) Lighting
Lighting is a very fundamental technique used in films to elicit different moods and
feelings and The Truman Show is no exception. In this show, the use of lighting helps to
evoke different feelings such as sadness and happiness. Bright colors are often used to
depict happy, jolly and exciting moments. This clearly seen when Truman greets his
neighbours in the morning. The set uo is bright with the sun shining on his face. This
complements his happy and excited mood in the morning. Dull or dark on the other hand
is used when showing scenes where the character is going through a sad and difficult
experience. This is seen for instance when Truman was desperately trying to escape the
town of Seahaven where he had lived all his life. This process was not only scary but
painful for him. It showed his pain after he realized that his entire life had been fabricated

7. and the betrayal he felt at that moment. He was also trying to escape that fake world a
process that was not only dangerous but also difficult. Therefor the use of dark lighting
for thus scene was absolutely perfect as the audience was able to also feel the pain and
suffering he went through.
d) Sounds
Sounds are used in films to emphasize certain occasions. The sound in films also make
some of the occurrences in the film fell more realistic even if they are edits. For example
the use of sound effects. In the film sound effects are used to reinforce what is occurring.
For instance, as Truman was in the ocean and was trying to escape, the sound of lighting
what applied when lightning struck his boat as he tried to escape. This made the scene
more dramatic and realistic. Another technique used is background music. This music
often sets the mood for what is happening for example if the scene is funny, a more
upbeat and light-hearted background music is used in the background. If it is a sad scene
then background music more to the gloomy side like a sad song. This is accurately
displayed when Truman finally touched the wall that was the border of his world and
realizing that his world indeed was fake. The background sound was a classical sound.
One tht created the feeling of freedom as he was finally free of the lie.
Conclusion
In my conclusion, the expert use of the above film techniques really helped in not only
developing but also delivering the storyline effectively.