Truman Show Paper

Hears one of the quote from the movie. "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to

 lose sight of the shore for a very long time" by Andre Gide. The movie Truman show had a lot 

of different interesting things.  The Truman Show depicts on several interesting areas of the

 video production through camera, advertising, and the movie ending. 

The movie Truman Show had different verity of camera angles. While watching the move the camera angles made you wonder where the camera was placed. In the move they used different types of camera angels for example the producers used close up, middle shot, and long shot.  Some examples of close up shots are when Truman drives in the car and the camera was inside the dash board. Another close up shot was in the side mirror that is in the car. When dog attacks Truman in the beginning he gets scared of the dog and it showed good expression of his face with the close up if they did long shot you would not be able to see his face expression. All of close up shots had interesting backgrounds. Some of the backgrounds are when Truman rides the boat.  In that seen Truman was happy and excited to get out from the city. The long shot in the movie was when Truman crashed the boat into the side of the dome.  Through the movie the camera shots and angles were good and it made you want to watch the movie.

 In the movie they used product placement in a sarcastic way so people can see this products while watching the movie. Some products that they shown on the show are coffee and knives. She showed knives when Truman was banding down digging in the flower bed.

She showed the coffee and she was telling how good the coffee is so viewers will buy the coffee. In my opinion the movie is not real. I think so because you could not do that to the person and when you are 30 you would find out that something doesn’t look right. If this movie was on TV I would watch it because it looks interesting.     

            The ending of the movie wasn’t right in my opinion I didn’t like the movie ending.  The ending wasn’t right because he exists the dome and Silvia runs down the stairs and what happened next they didn’t show. I thing that they should of show what will Truman think of outside world and what kind of reaction will he have to it. When he exits will he go find Sylvia? I think they should made part two of the movie what kind of life will he have after the dome experience.  I could not tell what Christof will do after Truman left.

               In conclusion, the movie Truman Show was great by the several interesting areas of 

the video production through camera, advertising, and the movie ending. 

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Camera Techniques

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly)
Camera
Tape
Tripod
Microphone hand lose symbol
Headphones
Power source
Light source

• Shooting into a light source = SILHOUETTE

Button to adjust = back light bottom or use the flash


• Where do you want your light source?
Light should always be behind the camera

• On what object should you focus the camera?
zoom in and focus on the person nose

• No tripod=


• Date and Time= never


• SP/EP
SP standard play on tape EP extended play
• Camera shoots in SP mode.

• Pre-Roll- 2-3 seconds before you starts your interview
Begin recording so we can edit without words getting cut

• Post-Roll- 2-3seconds after the interview
Begin recording so we can edit without words getting cut


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: DYNAMIC has some depth not plain

• 1 Shot= middle of the chest to the top of the head

• 1 Shot with graphic= middle of the chest to the top of the head and move it to the left or right with graphics over the shoulder.

• 2 Shot=
• CU- close up shot show details of the objects.

• MS- medium shot.

• LS- long shot sets the seen for you.

• ECU- extreme close up to show details.

• Rule of thirds- imaginary lines are drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically


CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt- moving the camera up and down. To show how big something is


• Pan- moving the camera left to right. Following the game


• Zoom- changing the focal length


• Dolly- fiscally moving the camera on wheels.

THREE POINT LIGHTING
• Key- important light the brightest light to light up the person.


• Fill- fill in the shadows that key light brings.


• Back- provides depth from behind


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional- takes sound in one direction

• Omnidirectional- takes sound from all directions. The camera microphone is omnidirectional.

• Cardiod- hart shape focus on person speaking

• Lav/Lapel Microphone-

• Boom Microphone-

Questions Answers

 Ross Simonov

1. What game system do you like better and why?

I would get a PlayStation 3 because it has free online gaming, 160 GB of memory, and also because it has Blu-ray, which is not featured on any other game systems.

 2. If you can have any game in the world what game would you like to have?

I would get Modern Warfare 2. I have always liked realistic war games and this has been one of my favorites.
 3. Why would you like to play video games?

It is a good way to kill time and, in some instances it makes you think strategically. By that, I mean you have to find the best way to complete a mission or to get around an obstacle. 

4. About how many hours a week would you play?

I would guess around 10 to 12 hours a week.
 5. IF you had to stop playing video games would you stop?

No because I get into games pretty quickly and it would be very hard for me to stop.
 6. What games do you like to play?

Mainly war games and First Person Shooters.

3 Questions

1. What game system you like better and why?
2. If you can have any game in the world what game would you like to have?
3. Why would you like to play video game?
4. How many hours a week you play?
5. IF you had to stop play games would you stop?
6. What games you like play?
I will ask two Students and my dad.

Interview

Video Game
What games or system is good to play

10 Steps to Writing a Story

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a Topic.
-What is your story about?
- Who is your audience?
- Why is story important to audience?
2. Find an Angle.
- What abotu your topic?
- More specifically, what is important about your topic?
- What should your reader learn?
3. Collect Information/ Data. - Who are the experts?
- Do you need opposing points of view?
- What interview questions should I ask?
4. Conduct the Interview.
- Ask open ended questions
- Get good sound bytes. A peice of audio that can stand along.
- Have the person restate the quistions in the interview. Do three interview and three qustion
5. Shoot your reporter Stand-UP.
- Should have a good idea what story is about
- Stand-Up should provide information that audience doesn't
- Use stand up for transition from one place to the next
- No first person: I went
6. Organize your sound Bytes.- What quote should i use?
- How can i organize the quotes to tell a story?
- What are my gold nuggets?
- Sprinkle the nuggets throughout the story!
7. Write segues in your story.
- Use words that tie the interview together.
- What other information can i add to the story?
- Can the story stand on its own?
8. Write the Beginning and End of your story.
- Write body first
- Best sound bites for beginning and end
- Paraphrase a sound bytes at the beginning
- Leaves them with strongest sound bytes at end
- Leave them with hope
9. Write the anchor ins and outs (if necessary).
- How should the story begin and end?
- Use attention getters at the introduction but avoid rhetorical
- What should the anchors say to introduce my story or bring it to a close? No scoop went to find out.
10. Collect B-Role to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
-  How can video enhance my store?
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-Roll.