Leading Ideas
This unit focused on this, which is how someone uniquely perceives or views a thing.
What is perspective?
"The Truman Show" fell into this category of television show.
What is reality tv?
This is the war that this movie was set in.
What is World War 2?
Most conversations are shot using this kind of shot.
What is a medium shot?
This is a law which prohibited immoral content in film.
What is the Hayes Code?
It is important that we see perspective in film, and this is the phrase we used for someone who closely watches film instead of passively consuming it
What is an active observer?
This is the name of the "town" Truman grows up in.
Where is South Haven?
Most of the movie consists of Churchill doing this in front of crowds of people, which affected the course of the war.
What are speeches?
This camera shot shows a character's entire person and their surroundings.
What is a wide shot?
A movie depicts a graphic murder that a detective solves and saves the day. This aspect of the movie would not be allowed under the Hayes Code.
What is graphic murder?
For this unit, we said perspective lies in the eye of the _______________________.
What is beholder?
Truman's wife displaying consumer goods too Truman with an explanation of their function/value is an example of this.
What is product placement?
This is the name of the city where all of Churchill's troops are stranded.
What is Dunkirk?
This camera angle is considered unsettling due to the unnatural angle it creates.
What is a dutch angle?
Movies which passed the Hayes Code received one of these. Theaters at the time required them.
What is the "Production Code Seal"?
This is the verse we considered when thinking about what Christians are called to dwell on in our daily lives.
What is Philippians 4:8?
Truman was adopted by...
What is the television corporation/Christof's business?
This is the group of government which is a constant threat to Churchill's leadership within his own country.
What is Parliament?
This type of camera movement is when the camera follows the characters as if we are walking with them.
What is a dolly/tracking shot? (It turns out these are the same!)
This is a perspective in Hollywood which is constantly changing like shifting sand; defined by how one describes "good" and "evil"
What is morality?
We read a homely Bible story that discusses the difference between a moral foundation built on truth verses falsehood. In the story, the houses are built on these two different materials. (must get both correct to receive credit)
What is rock and sand?
These are the fake AND real name of the woman Truman fell in love with who told him about his false reality. (must get both answers correct for credit)
Who is Sylvia/Lauren?
There is a strategy most of Churchill's war cabinet wants him to consider, but he strongly opposes by saying that you can't reason with this type of animal when your head is in it's mouth.
What is a tiger?
When a camera does not move at all, it is called this kind of camera movement.
What is static?
Hollywood was concerned that limiting what could and could not be in movies would also limit this, which is a two word phrase. First word starts with a "C". Second word starts with an "E"
What is creative expression?