“The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. The audience is also the toughest critic - a good story that exists in your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can.” Those were the words spoken by director Steven Spielberg when he talked about his life as a film maker. The film making industry has changed since the start of the cinema in the early in the 1890s, from the creation of the first motion picture cameras, to the grand computer-generated imagery we have today. But, it is a fact that without certain films from the past we wouldn’t have the films we have today.
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Directing in the decades before the 70s were stale and one sided. In the early years of the cinematic boom, editors and directors would never cut from a wide shot to a close shot because they feared that the audience would get confused by shut a jump cut between scenes. But over the years the use of faster and tighter editing has become a common practice in today’s industry that almost every film consists of shots such as close up and the fear of confusing the audience long gone. Since the 70s Hollywood started to get the impression that films should be entertaining and that each movie should resemble every other movie, because once a movie is successful, making another movie just like it is less of a financial risk. However, most filmmakers didn’t follow this Hollywood standard and began creating their own unique styles of film making. Directors such as Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, and many more decided to innovate from the old Hollywood formula into something much their own. While working on the first Rocky film, Stallone wanted to have the camera in the ring with himself and Carl Weathers so that the boxing could feel more real compared to how boxing films before Rocky were shot in the past. However, experts who were helping Stallone on the film rejected his advice till the point where they quit the film altogether. In order to film the close up boxing scenes, a new piece of technology was created by Garrett Brown in order to help bring the film to life. “It looked like a monster, a beast, it had all these washers, and nuts, and bolts, and ropes hanging from it to create the balance. It looked like a crowbar with a cam, it was savage lugging, heavy, loud, but mobile.” Said Sylvester Stallone in the TV Documentary “The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance” as he described the newly created Steadicam, a new filming equipment that revolutionized the way moving camera shots
Directing in the decades before the 70s were stale and one sided. In the early years of the cinematic boom, editors and directors would never cut from a wide shot to a close shot because they feared that the audience would get confused by shut a jump cut between scenes. But over the years the use of faster and tighter editing has become a common practice in today’s industry that almost every film consists of shots such as close up and the fear of confusing the audience long gone. Since the 70s Hollywood started to get the impression that films should be entertaining and that each movie should resemble every other movie, because once a movie is successful, making another movie just like it is less of a financial risk. However, most filmmakers didn’t follow this Hollywood standard and began creating their own unique styles of film making. Directors such as Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, and many more decided to innovate from the old Hollywood formula into something much their own. While working on the first Rocky film, Stallone wanted to have the camera in the ring with himself and Carl Weathers so that the boxing could feel more real compared to how boxing films before Rocky were shot in the past. However, experts who were helping Stallone on the film rejected his advice till the point where they quit the film altogether. In order to film the close up boxing scenes, a new piece of technology was created by Garrett Brown in order to help bring the film to life. “It looked like a monster, a beast, it had all these washers, and nuts, and bolts, and ropes hanging from it to create the balance. It looked like a crowbar with a cam, it was savage lugging, heavy, loud, but mobile.” Said Sylvester Stallone in the TV Documentary “The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance” as he described the newly created Steadicam, a new filming equipment that revolutionized the way moving camera shots