The Truman Show Paper
I. Introduction:
A. Attention Getter: Quote, Statistic, Story (No Rhetorical Questions)
B. Transition to Thesis: One or more sentences to tie the Attention Getter to the Thesis
C. Thesis: The Truman Show depicts several interesting areas of the video production through Camera’s, its Believable, and The ending.
II. 1st Body Paragraph
Topic Sentence: One of the things that make the movie great is the cameras and how they make the movie look more appealing.
A. The Camera angles make the shots look better because…
- It looks like the shots are coming from different places.
- It makes you able to see different parts of the actors and from different angles.
B. The camera movements enhance the shot because it makes the shots follow the actor.
- When the cameras move than the shots are more fluent and not jumping from camera to camera
- The camera movement also helps tell the store because it makes the shots follow the people and then they get shots of what they need to tell the story
C. The type of camera also plays a big part in the show because they can place the cameras in different places.
- They have pin hole cameras that fit on a batten and small stuff and that is almost invisible to the human eye so they can place them on people and you would not know
2. They also use full size cameras with I think is all they used to do the whole show because the smaller the camera the worse the quality
Concluding Sentence: That is why the cameras play a huge part in the movie
III. 2nd Body Paragraph
Topic Sentence: The trouble with making this movie was making it believable there was a lot of time spent to make you believe it.
D. The set needs to look real for you to think the show/movie is real.
- When they have a set like The Truman Show set everything needs to look real the houses need to be functional.
- They also needed to make the sky look real and to create an illusion with the water so it looks giant.
E. The actors also need to act like they are real people living in this make believe city?
- If this was a real show they would be trying to make the actors look more real they could of got rid of the ear pieces and just made them do what they would do in any other city.
- They also wouldn’t have all of these random people who come up and say something and some how know who he is after meeting for the first time.
F. The actor’s actions would of been a lot different if they wanted the show to be more believable.
- When Truman is trying to get away they could of found a better way to stop him than to make a super fake traffic jam.
2. They also would of created a better place for product placement then right in the middle
Concluding Sentence: That’s what makes this movie believable and how it could have been better.
IV. 3rd Body Paragraph
Topic Sentence: The end of the movie I think is weird and they could of made it better.
G. What is good about the current ending
- The current ending is simple and very smooth it is an easy way to end.
- They ended the movie on a note that leaves you wanting more so they should make a another movie about what he did out side of the dome and if he comes back.
H. How I think it should have ended.
- I think he should of left the dome and waked into Hollywood and he would be in ahw and then he see, standing in front of him Sylvia and the hug and end the movie.
I. How the sequel would be.
- It should recap on what happen before and the after he leaves and find Sylvia and hugs and then the go explore holly wood.
2. Then after the see it they both go to Fiji and live there for some time and then the both go back to the dome and have a child to be the next one on the show.
Concluding Sentence: That is how I think the movie should of ended or the sequel should have been.
V. Concluding Paragraph
A. Re-phrase thesis
B. Refer back to the Attention getter
C. Leave the reader with something to think about.
Other guidelines:
Follow MLA format if you use citations
Times New Roman 12 pt. Font.
You can have a title page if you’d like
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