Truman Show Poster

Sign
The sign is the Truman Show poster. The collection of miniature images to make different, a larger scale one.

Signifier
The Signifier in this post is quite complex. Carrey as Truman Burbank fills the poster in a brilliant close-up with the bright blue sky and the clouds behind him, looking up at the sky with a big enlightening smile on his face. Like a hero. At a first glance it just looks like a slightly pixelated image of Jim Carrey but after a closer examination you realise what is actually involved in the image. The poster, the image of Carrey is made up by hundreds of screenshots from the film itself. Varying from when the character of Truman was a child right up to his older years.

Signified
The image of Carrey in a god-like depiction represents his life. His eventful, happy life. Or maybe it represents life in general? The image could be quite moving to some people. To see all of these events in the characters life happening all at once to define life in all of its wonder and beauty makes a incredibly effective poster and you get the feel just by looking at this poster that it is going to be a deep film, a feel-good film and a moving film. And what's more is that we will see a whole life play out on screen, one scene at at time. Or in this case, on screenshot at a time.