Steven Spielburg

This week I did not have to come up with something to start out my search for the "Library Post." In Social Studies class I was shown the beginning of Steven Spielburg's movie Amistad and I was completely amazed in the opening shot where it shows the slaves face sweating in flickers because there's lightning. I loved the fact that Spielburg shows the nitty gritty details and can get the story across on everything that's going on without words. That being said I goggled "Steven Spielburg" and a few other variations of that and through my chain of internet surfing I found a few video clips explaining the process in the making of Jaws . It was very interesting to say the least. What I expected to find was filming techniques and process. The library post is about finding things you can steal, for example shots. In watching these series of clips I watched something which I deem as much more important. In the video clips various people who contributed to the making of the film explain that their biggest problem was the shark. How the shark malfunctioned so much because they were pressed for time and how because of this the mechanical kinks they would hear more often then not over the walkie-talkies that the shark is not working. One of the people interviewed even explains that most scenes that include the shark was the only usable film. They also explain that in more recently people are trying to top one another and create bigger and better. Then Steven Spielberg says,"Sometimes bigger isn't better necessarily, sometimes bigger is too much." Which applies for so much of what we do in STAC. What I am going to steal from these clips is the mindset that getting a finished product is so much more important than trying to perfect it or making it "original." Sometimes you need to work with what you have just like the crew who were new to working on the ocean everyday for Jaws and even on occasion feel off their boats into the water. Work with what you are given.

 

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/the-shark-is-still-working.htm