Informative Essay On Steven Allan Spielberg

In a 1977 interview with Steven Spielberg, the young filmmaker mused, “I think in a way I’m two different people; my instincts always commandeer my sensibilities, or my intellect is always beaten down by my instincts” (36). Spielberg’s prognosis is accurate – Spielberg’s creative instincts and business sensibilities balance each other, laying the foreground for his present prominence as both a postmodern constructor and postmodern auteur. 40 years later, today, Steven Spielberg remains one of the most highly-recognized, prolific directors in Hollywood. I argue that Spielberg is both a postmodern constructor and postmodern auteur, but

From an early age I have always had a strong interest in art, and have been involved with it in some form all through my life. When I turned 15 I realised that it was something that I might like to pursue as a career, I started taking it more seriously. At the same time, I gained interest in film production because I find the behind the scenes of films are amazing as I found this out when I was watching one the behind the scene documentary of my two favorite movies and directed by two of my favorite directors in the film industry which are Goodfellas by Alfonso Cuarón and Children of Men by Martin Scorsese. The specific parts in this course that interest me are the cinematography and the editing process. In my spare time I like to film and edit short videos, either scripted or just finding video clips I have to match up to a song.

“Steven Spielberg is really the wunderkind of the film business” says a Hollywood reporter. Another reporter calls him the youngest filmmaker ever contracted to a major studio. Steven was discovered by Universal Studios from his short amateur film “Amblin”(McBride). He won a directing contract at Universal. Steven is known as the most successful director from Universal to this day as well. The Universal Studios theme park has made many rides after famous Spielberg movies. Some of the rides include Jaws, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. Spielberg has won over 70 awards and multiple golden globe awards. Spielberg started off as an amateur film director who thought it wasn’t possible to get a directing job due to his crazy ideas. Little did he know that when he shared his crazy ideas with the world that everyone would love his style. Spielberg was almost fired from Universal for his poor directing in Jaws, it was a very expensive movie to make, due to the newer quality and futuristic items in it. Luckily, Spielberg finished Jaws and moved on to become the world's most critically acclaimed director. Spielberg was recognized throughout all countries for making some non-english films as well. He won multiple national awards from Japan, Germany, and Italy. Steven Spielberg is perhaps the best director to ever live(McBride).

I tried my hand at mediums such as painting, sculpting, sketching and many more. My passion soon grew when I got my first camera, I never thought that photography could be a tool for art and could tell such powerful stories. I always saw them as objects just for taking tacky family photos but, my mindset soon changed when I saw new world beauty through the lens of the camera and I was hooked, I knew this is what I wanted to do for my life.

As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era, Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider, he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood, which he disliked, maintaining complete control of his projects and making movies according to his own ideas and time constraints. To him, filmmaking was a form of art and unlike Hollywood, not a business.

I chose to major in Cinematography and Film/Video Production because of this love and admiration that I grew for films. Beyond just Star Wars, this love grew for films as I began to watch a multitude of films

Steven Spielberg has produced many great films and a wide variety of films. Spielberg was a high school dropout, but he was still able to be successful with 3 academy awards. In class, we have watched 3 different movies he has produced: Jaws, Jurassic Park, and War horse. In these films, he uses many different cinematic techniques to show emotion, power, and tension.

Steven Allan Spielberg is one of the most influential and successful director, producer, creator and writer of film in the 20th

Identify what you consider to be the director's main purpose and explore, in depth , one or two main visual/ oral techniques used to achieve this purpose.

The movie writer, writing story they would capture the attention of people. The genre of movies I like to watch are romance comedy. Even by watching a film that you are interested make your day better. I chose the film of Cinderella which is animation film in 1950. You have seen the movie about girl who marry a princess and lives happily ever after.

At the age of 12, His first home movie was of a train wreck involving his toy Lionel

Steven Spielberg is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.

Steven Allan Spielberg is known worldwide as a screenwriter, producer and one of America's most successful filmmakers. His 20 highest-grossing films grossed 8.45 billion. He is a three-time winner of the Oscar Award, twice as the best director of the year.

After viewing the cinematic film, “Minority Report” by Stephen Spielberg, the task to make an interview about the movie was handed to me. My job was to interview two people about the futuristic technologies in the movie. For the analysis of their answers I will not use their names to keep their anonymity and privacy, since they did not want to share those information, hence I will call them ‘Interviewee #1’ and ‘Interviewee #2’. However they agreed onto to tell their age, since I needed to interview people from an older generation .Also the interviews were done in another language than English, I had to translate it and because of that some of the information from the original interview was altered to make the text more fluent and understandable.

Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful directors of all time (in fact, may people would argue that he is the most successful director there has ever been) and his movies have been some of the most profitable and well known in history. His opening sequences are noted for being captivating, gripping and often scary, building tension and suspense. Born in 1946 in Ohio, Spielberg has become elite among directors. The gross of the films he has directed is estimated at $8.5 billion, and three of his films – Jurassic Park, Jaws and E.T. the extra-terrestrial – have achieved box office records.