Describe at least two production features that worked well in a text you have studied.
Explain how each feature helps the audience understand the text.

The Truman show directed by Peter Weir is a text through which the themes of free choice v's manipulation and reality v's illusion are examined. Peter Weir uses the production features of camera angle, camera shots and costume to demonstrate these themes.

Production features used by PW are camera angles and shots. Shots of Truman especially in the first half of the film are from unconventional angles and shot through oval/circular ‘masks'. For example when we see TB driving his car, he is shot at a low angle, and the shot is framed by a circle of black across which we see the radio dial. This gives the illusion that the camera is behind the radio, hidden from Truman. By filming Truman at these unusual angles Peter Weir conveys the idea that Truman is being filmed under surveillance. This is especially apparent when......

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