The Truman Show Essay

The way Peter Weir uses the cameras in the film is amazing because it gives the film a good impact to the audience. At the start there is a slow zooming in shot, on Truman which ends up with a close up, through the mirror to hide the fact that he is being filmed. There seemed to be lots of close-ups and medium close-ups shots in the film, because Truman is always standing to a camera when being filmed. There are loads of types of different shots ranging from very long shots to moving subject walks into the street because the camera's are always on cue to work because they never know where Truman will go in his own time. The film is absolutely unpredictable and amazingly jaw-dropping.

Truman has a very sparky personality, but the lyrics of his life are written out for him because Christof the "Control Freak" is monitoring him and designs the events in Truman's life. His interest in magazines is bizarre because they are women's magazines. Truman is determined to find his first and true love. This is ironic because the audience of the show know what he is feeling as where he thinks its personal and private emotion what he is feeling and doesn't know that anybody else knows his feelings. This is why he wishes to visit Fiji to find Lauren or Sylvia as he knew her from his high school. Truman makes a call to directory enquiries form his office to try and be discreet about things but he is again revealing to Christof his emotional feelings, now Christof knows how to press Truman's button's and guide his actors to interact with Truman.

Christof is the person who links the film together, because he knows how to bring out the fear in Truman. When he is pondering about leaving the island, Christof made think that Truman killed hid father when he was younger, they were out on a fishing boat in the sea and then got hit by a storm. So this creaves head the fear of water in Truman.

The camera shot sometimes focuses on product placement, this is advertising products because there are no commercial breaks during the Truman show so they advertise during the programme with big posters saying " Kaiser Chicken" and Truman's wife, Merrill often says things to advertise products.

The things that go wrong are at the start, a light falls out of the sky. Truman's dad sneaks back on to the show and gives Truman a warning. Later as the film moves on, when he comes slightly more suspicious he notices thing are set in a particular cycle. One instance that starts his suspicion is when he intercepts the crew on his car radio, but cleverly Christof quickly covers up his bad mistake by getting the radio presenters to say that they got caught up in a police signal.

Finally when we see the audience of the show, the film comes together and explains itself. This is because before we saw the audience, the film didn't really make sense because I knew he was being filmed but there was know reason for it until we saw the audience keenly attracted to the show. If I had to describe this film, I would describe it as a comedy/Drama, because the film is Jam-packed with thrilling and nail biting comedy and drama.