Austin Truskowski
The Truman Show
Intro to Broadcast A
11/11/10 Period 2
“Good Morning, and if I don’t see ya Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night” Truman says this line many times trough The Truman Show, this becomes one of his famous lines and the one you remember. They also found a really good place to put it as one of the last lines in the movie. But to have this line in the movie they needed to make a good movie that fit the line. That is why The Truman Show depicts several interesting areas of video production some of them are how the Cameras are used, is the movie Believable, and is the Ending Good.
One of the things that make a great movie is it needs to be visually appealing and that is where the cameras come in to play. When you put the cameras at different angles and different positions. When the place the cameras in high and low places you get different angles, with these angles you can get different shots of people. When you have the cameras at different angles you can look at the actors in different way and see their face even when they are looking down. The cameras that can pan and zoom also help it make it flow because instead of switching from camera to camera you can have a nice steady pan. The cameras move also help tell the story because they can show more things that might be important to tell the story. The different type of camera also plays a huge part in placement. There and button hole cameras that are super small and most people would not see it if they did not know it was there the only problem with them is the are not very clear. They also have full sized cameras that they probably used for the whole movie because the are much clearer and easer to film with. I think they used these cameras everywhere. That is why the cameras play such a huge role in the movie.
The trouble with making a movie or show is it needs to look real you cant make it look fake of no one will believe it. The first thing you need to do is make a set that looks like the real thing. When you need a set like The Truman Show had you need to put a lot work in. Because this movies was about a show were Truman thought he was I the real world it needed to look good. The sets in the city need to look real and be function (if needed). They also needed to make it look like they were outside even though they were in a big dome and the water needed to look like I went on forever. The actors also need to look and act like real people living in the city. If they wanted to make it better the actors could of done more things to make it look real instead of having earpieces they could of just done what they do in real life. If I was making this movie I would of made the actors look more real. They could of made a more real traffic jam instead of all the cars pulling out at once. They also could have better product placement instead of the middle of the scene, they could of made commercials for the TV on the show and did it that way. That’s is some things that I would of done to add a little more.
I think the end of the movie was strange and there are things I would of done to make the movie end better. But there were still good parts from the current ending. The ending they did was smooth and very simple and an easy way to end. But the ending could have been a little deferent they should of shown him outside the dome and seen if he comes back. I think the movie should have ended where he left the dome and right out side Sylvia was weighting and they hugged and ended the movie. Than they needed to make a squeal where him and Sylvia leave and move to Fiji and live there for some time and come back and have a kid and start the show again. That is how I think the movie should have ended and a new one begun.
The Truman Show depicts several interesting areas of video production some of them are how the Cameras are used, is the movie Believable, and is the Ending Good. But remember, “If I don’t see ya Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night”. There also is no world like the real world unless you can think of something better.
