Peter Weir (Director) Editing Storyboards

1. The Truman Show Scripting and Planning Peter Weir (Director) Editing Storyboards

2. The Truman Show Scripting and Planning Ocean Set used in the Truman Show

3. The Truman Show Scripting and Planning A FOGGED MIRROR Behind the fog we hear the sounds of a bathroom. After a long moment, a hand wipes the condensation from the glass to reveal the face of TRUMAN BURBANK. He wears a sleeveless Hanes undershirt and blue-stripes pajama bottoms, behind him a white glazed tiled bathroom wall. It is immediately apparent that we are viewing him through a two-way mirror. Truman, expressionless, studies his reflection in the mirror. For a long moment, he does nothing. He continues to look impassively into the mirror for what becomes an uncomfortably long time. Still nothing. Finally he speaks, talking to himself in the mirror as if participating in a TV interview. TRUMAN ...personally I think the unconquered south face is the only one worth scaling... of course it's a 20,000 foot sheer wall of ice but then when did that ever stop me before? Naturally, I intend to make the ascent without the benefit of oxygen but also without crampons or even an ice pick... risks? (smug, TV smiles) ... sure I'm aware of the risks -- why else do you think I would spend seven years as an adjuster in a life insurance company? MERYL (O.S.)Truman, you're gonna be late!

4. The Truman Show- Before Viewing Consider the following things: • How is the title a metaphor? • Media influencing Truman • Product placement • Music triggering mood • Film technique to illustrate memory

5. The Truman Show- Before Viewing Look for the following shots: • Establishing • First Person Point of View • High and Low Angle • Surveillance Style • Hand Held and Dolly Shots • Close up • Mid Length • Long Shot

6. Enjoy the Screening

7. I relate my philosophy to the Truman show because Truman, through the whole movie only wanted to be free. He accepted what he thought was the world right for him, but was really just a creation to make him think that. He never felt secure after his father died and that started to spark his curiosity to figure out his life.

8. Cinematic Intelligence Agency-Truman Show Report Intelligence analyst Special Agent Matti Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities Movie propaganda On the air. Unaware. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) 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 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 sound stage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking eye of hidden TV cameras. Also starring Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Nastacha Mcelhone, Holland Taylor and Ed Harris. Directed by Peter Weir.

9. Cinematic Intelligence Agency-Truman Show Report Theatrical report Paranoia city. This is a dark and twisted tale that pokes its sticky fingers into more than just the morality of shows like Sylvania waters with their tell-all tabloid style of journalism. It also takes pokes at the advertising industry, the acting industry and the morality of the media (if there is such a thing). Jim is a good choice for the role of Truman because he does that likeable goof thing so well. There aren't too many Carreyisms to put up with and he manages to be both funny and pathetic at the same time. What he didn't manage is to look 18 but you all know how to willingly suspend your disbelief, don't you? The supporting cast (as in the actors who play the actors playing real people) have been well chosen, handling a broad range of performance from Strong artificial performance to Strong real performance. Laura's Sunny wife and Noah's Best friend are crucially important to the success of the film and they do the roles very well. The sets are great - very realistically artificial - and the effects are mostly very good. The sense of naturalness and unreality is astounding. This is a surprisingly entertaining film that is well worth watching. What's more, it's actually very funny.

10. Two doctor/brothers, Joel and Ian Gold, have identified symptoms of a mental illness unique to our times: the Truman Show delusion, named for the 1998 movie that starred Jim Carrey as a suburbanite whose movements were filmed 24/7 and broadcast to the world. The two say a handful of individuals are convinced they are stars of an imaginary reality show. Though limited, their findings are creating a buzz in the media and the psychiatric community: Is it possible that reality TV is shaping delusions?

11. The Truman Show Disorder • The five patients Dr. Gold treated were white men between the ages of 25 and 34, the majority of whom held university degrees. " . • "I realized that I was and am the centre, the focus of attention by millions and millions of people," explained one patient, an army veteran. BoingBoing reports today (late!) on a study a pair of Canadian psychologists are conducting in Montreal on patients who are convinced that they're the stars of reality TV. This delusion has been named the Truman Show disorder:

12. Posted by Gabe at 3:30 PM in HospitalTags: Diseases | Jim Carrey | The Truman Show Anyway, after the jump, some other delusions that are a real problem in Canada. The Lawnmower Man DelusionPatients believe that they have returned to VSI to complete the final stage of their evolution. They believe that they have projected themselves onto the mainframe computer, that they have become PURE ENERGY. The Lake House DelusionPatients believe that their mailbox is imbued with magic, and that they are receiving horribly written letters sent from the future by Sandra Bullock. The Weekend at Bernie's DelusionPatients believe that everyone around them is dead and simply being propped up like a puppet by a couple of cocaine-addled 80s middlemen trying to get a leg up in the most cynical and misanthropic way possible. The Back to the Future DelusionPatients go fucking crazy when you call them "chicken." The Donnie Darko DelusionPatients are confused and think that terrible, hacky things are interesting and cool. I could do this all day. I might do this all day.

13. Doppelganger (Wikipedia) • The word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck.

14. Satire(Wikipedia) • In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. • Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.

15. Utopia(Wikipedia) • Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society. • It is sometimes in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve. • The name is taken from Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia, a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system.

16. In groups of 2 answer the following questions: • Describe how the Truman Show is a satire. • Can a Utopia be faked? Why or why not (with reference to the Truman Show). • In what ways does media manipulate public opinion? How can we protect ourselves from this type of manipulation? • What ethical laws would you put in place so a situation like the Truman Show would be impossible. • Can you create any social or mental disorders based on television shows or movies?