Experience Through Language (Image)
...public or a character projected to us, by the public, by a person, or institution, especially by the mass media.
These are all meanings of the word image.
An image is used by composers, in movies, articles and stories to help shape and alter our personal opinions of the world. This means that the way we see things can be altered because of the way something is portrayed in an image that is created for our viewing.
“The Truman Show” created by Peter Weir creates two worlds within this film; meaning more than one image is portrayed. One image is the world of Truman Burbank, what he sees and what he experiences, the other, that of the viewers world, the audience watching the program. But, again, there is more than one audience. One audience is that off Peter Weir which includes the people on the outside of the film. In addition, Christof the creator of “The Truman Show” has his own audience within the film itself. They are the people that appear in the film watching the show.
There were many techniques used by both Weir and Christof to present images. Camera movements and angles, costume design, and dialogue help to manipulate both audiences throughout the film.
The first images we are presented with are the start of the television program “The Truman Show” created by Christof is him himself on the screen. He sits as if in mid interview positioning talking to the audience about Truman. The opening can in other words be described as a mock documentary. A close-up shot is used on his head and shoulders. This close up allows the audiences to show a suggested quality of intelligence because of Christof’s glasses, and also makes him appear sincere and an expert on Truman.
Christof States: “We've become bored with watching actors give us phoney emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects,...
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