Static shot. Close up. Direct eye contact with viewer. Telling the viewer about the show. (He's the creator).
Hidden camera on the inside of shelf. Truman makes direct eye contact. Static shot. Breaking fourth wall?
Circular Vignette as if on camera. Crash zoom into Truman (fast zoom). Opening shot of the show, introducing Truman.
Wide angle from high perspective (like a God watching the world). Uniform houses and the colors of roofs all the same - depicting some sort of Utopia? Pastel blues, whites, orange. Set in the 1950s (reminiscent of 1950s color palettes - pastel warm and cool colors of blue, white, red, orange, etc)
Hidden camera. Camera angled upwards. Cameras are always watching Truman.
PR commercial in the show. Crash zoom. Direct eye contact with audience. With Marlon, it's always a night scene. Studio-esque setting with super dark bg/studio lighting.
Chaotic trucking as Truman is running. A bit of random camera moment.
Camera trucks Truman and Sylvia. Camera loses track of them as they secretly escape - whip pan to catch them last minute.
As Truman comes to realize something's off, we follow the camera arc and the camera is dramatically zoomed in on Truman's face to show he's realized something/questions reality.
Camera follows Truman, he's reflected on the rearview mirrors (another hidden camera). As it follows Truman, the camera makes whirring sound.
Dramatic push in/zoom from a wide angled view of Seahaven, all the way to the moon into the studio. Creator of show looks out at the entire world he's constructed. It's framed as if it's a picture. Reminds me of "Big Brother is always watching" from 1984.
Zoom in from all these cameras (they said around 5,000 in the show) in the show to a singular camera. Major theme in the show. Truman is always being watched, his whole life broadcasted and controlled by this director.
“The Truman Show” is a film within a film. Truman is the first human to be adopted by a corporation since his birth to star in what is known as “The Truman Show.” Unbeknownst to him, the world (SeaHaven) he has been living in is the biggest studio, sheltered from the real world and carefully orchestrated and watched by Christof, the founder of the show. Everyone and everything is a meticulously constructed lie: his family, his friends and coworkers all actors and actresses on set. Except Truman. He is the only “True Man” in his world — his raw reactions to everyday life aired 24 hours a day, viewed by millions around the globe. However, as he grows older, he begins to experience a series of mishaps and strange occurrences, which lead him to question the authenticity of his life. His suspicions eventually motivate him to try to find an escape, beyond this “perfect” world he’s always known and found comfort in.
Throughout the film, Truman is captured by a series of hidden cameras, shown by different stationary angles from inside the bathroom cabinet, his “wife’s” necklace, the rearview mirrors, etc. The execution is absolutely brilliant because when things don’t go according to script, the camera man is equally confused, indicated by the sudden zoom and the confused panning. The film often depicts the “real world” reactions of viewers who are watching the show as well as the behind-the-scenes of the technical production team. You also, as the viewer of the film, become part of the film itself as you are watching and reacting to “The Truman Show” like everyone else, a breaking of the fourth wall. While the “real world” is set in the present day in Florida, the director decided SeaHaven (Truman’s world) to be set in the 1950s — the suburban “utopia” for the white American family, further evident by the vintage fashion, furniture, architecture, and the color palette of pale pinks, blues, yellows, and oranges.
The Truman Show” is timeless as anyone can relate to questioning the world they have always grown up in and have been taught to believe in. The struggle of coming to terms with reality and finding personal freedom is inherent in all of us.
5 words: Watched, Simulation, Suspicions, Camera, Vintage/1950s
Thesis: Unbeknownst to Truman, his world and all the people he knows are fake as he has been controlled as the main character of a show, an artificial simulation, since birth, and millions of people tune in everyday to watch his life and his freedom towards reality.
Hi, just a couple of images I found that might be good for inspiration. Ideas contains image refractions on camera lens, tilt-shift, typography focus/out of focus, camera lens fisheye distortions, video frame viewfinder markings...
surveillance screens
camera lense
lense reflections
lense reflections
camera view finder
abstract lense reflections
tilt shift miniature effect
Grace - security camera tracking
Grace - Crash zoom (often used in the Truman show)
Grace - Fisheye perspective, a Truman show classic
Grace - TV static
Grace - Tv glitch
Grace - zoom out
Camera vignette.
Fisheye lens experiment 1.
fisheye lens experiment 2. With static/overlapping letters.
surveillance screen
Split screens: if a name appears multiple times, make sure that only one is legible and gets the most emphasis visually. Otherwise people don't know where to look at/ which name to read. In the example the white box has the most contrast and it's the only segment that's actually legible at once. So it's the one that draws most attention to it.
Each square has a specific motion, but not all will be activated (just 3-4 will be activated when showing the actor/actress names)... I'm just stuck on how to translate the perspective / vanishing point motion in after effects.
This is what I drew to conceptualize the text on a surveillance screen = I mirrored it after the movement of cars.
Cam 4 from UIC DESIGN on Vimeo.
grace motion test from UIC DESIGN on Vimeo.
Grace motion test 2 from UIC DESIGN on Vimeo.
Starts with Tv turning on.
Static/glitch bg, with VoiceOver from the movie, transitions to the next panel.
Production company, Director, Writer all shown separately. Using camera layer in after effects, the camera zooms into and follows each title individually. Blurring/focusing effect, slight vignette to imitate a camera/tv surveillance effect.
When actors are introduced, it will zoom out to reveal 6 surveillance tv screens.
Jim Carrey (other 4 screens are blacked out for now, no signal).
4 blacked out screens turn on. Laura Linney.
In this order, the screens will switch from the previous screens to this new order/color scheme (the switching of surveillance screens will match the music). Green to introduce Noah Emmerich. Gray/white to introduce Ed Harris.
Glitch effect transition to this new group of screens. No longer featuring actors. Simple 1-point perspective. Cinematography, Music, and Editing (in that order).
Producers (there are 4 producers).
Big reveal of movie title. Each square is a surveillance tv.
Want the end to be like this
GraceMin_TrumanShow from UIC DESIGN on Vimeo.