All Quiet On The Western Front Steadicam Analysis

Audiences have been entrapped by the spectacle of film ever since the late 19th century when moving pictures were introduced. People were amazed by scenes of everyday life, such as a train passing by or a horse galloping on a dirt path. Film never lost its popularity; film kept developing. It started with the simple scenes that were less than a minute and moved on to stories, and then non-fiction stories. Next there was sound and color, and then parallel storylines and camera movement. With each new advancement in film, the viewers were wowed. It is insane how far the film industry has come in a little more than a century; it has advanced from a passing train to amazingly realistic special effects that make up a two hour long movie. The film industry keeps moving forward, so it is important to look back at how it got there and the impactful events and …show more content…
This device made it easy to enter a situation and stay involved in the situation with a break in order to capture and keep an audience’s attention. It is commonly used in documentaries and television shows for this reason, but one can see its impact in film as well, for example in, All Quiet on the Western Front “the Steadicam was used for shots in the trenches, both because there was no other way to do them and for the realistic and almost documentary-like effect it was able to lend to the portrayal of war” (Ferrara 89). The Steadicam has contributed to the remaking of many films such as the one mentioned above, which was originally made in 1930 and then remade with the use of a Steadicam in 1979. New technology is always being introduced to the film industry, therefore allowing the story of a film previously made to be retold with a greater effect. The Steadicam provides an extraordinary viewing experience, but one might claim that the Moviola was a more important creation in film