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Teachers NotesThis study guide examines Peter Weir s film The Truman Show released on October 9, 1998. It is aimed atstudents of GCSE, A Level, Scottish Standard, Scottish Higher and GNVQ Media Studies and covered in this study guide and the accompanying BBC Learning Zone television programme focuson representation and reality, forms and conventions within the film world, the popularity of docu-soaps andissues they raise and their place and effect within the media Burbank has the feeling that he s being watched. He doesn t know how right he is. Every second ofevery day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwittingstar of the longest running, most popular documentary soap -opera in history.
difficult judgements about the programme-makers’ quest for truth in portraying a real life situation. ... These programmes combine elements of soap operas as storylines with the characters being followed from ... with the production process and appearance on the screen is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that they might
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