Images are pervading forces that sculpt our attitudes and beliefs about our community, our world and ourselves amply through media production. An image can assist us to enter a different world through the use of film and language techniques, such as imagery in poetry or camera angles in a film, to create realism of the world being portrayed by the composer. Two mediums which allow the responder to enter a different world to that which the responder lives is the film The Truman Show and the poem Solitude.

The Truman Show (Paramount 1998), a film directed by Peter Weir, presents to the responder a man, Truman Burbank, who has grown up and lives in a fake town full of actors. Weir, as director, exhibits three worlds, which the responder becomes engaged in throughout the duration of the film.

The first of the three worlds is that of Truman Burbanks...