Thursday, July 14, 2011

Blog #7 My Idol IMovie

             Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog. I been working for the past week on a cool little Apple application called IMovie. I decided to work on an "Artist Biography" for this project. I figure who better than my Idol, my inspirator, who shape the film industry, Mr. Steven Spielberg.
             

Spielberg sees E.T.
              Steven Spielberg was the subject of my hero who inspire me that I stated on my last blog. This is a continuation of sorts, but the thesis for this IMovie. Using IMovie, I put together a slideshow, showcasing spielberg's work in film and television. A visual timeline from the start of his career in TV with the " Night Gallery " to his latest project in film with "Rin Tin Tin", a CGI film from Dreamworks. I want to show his visual work and craftsmanship throughout these photo images I have projected here in IMovie.


Spielberg in Jaws

              I must say, the way I put this together, I wanted to give it a suspense tease of excitement. I wanted to start out with his early work in TV, then zip right to his early films and known blockbusters. A timeline of his work using a film intercut transition feature in IMovie with photos of him behind the camera and posters of his movies. I excluded the films, TV and cartoons he produced and just focus exclusively on his own movies he directed. I was trying to build the excitement from past to the grand present and future of his work. In his films, Spielberg likes to tease the audience on the spectacle of what's to come and have us focus on the story to care about the characters. This format of storytelling was first put together in "King Kong 1933", the earliest I remember. Spielberg is not the first, but I feel he perfected it. For example, in Jaws, he did not want to show the shark itself for an hour into the film. He also stated the talk among the main characters in the boat chasing the shark was the best part for him in the film. It shows he care more about the story than just the visual feasts in the movie. I was trying to show that through my presentation in IMovie. I wish filmmakers now will try to do that approach. We now get spoiled showing all the effect early in films now. If only Spielberg directed the "Transformers" films himself, they would be better movies.

             I had a issue with trying to get the right music for the presentation of Spielberg. For Steven, it had to be instrumental. I was first going to choose a instrumental theme from John Williams which would of worked best since he did the music from most of Spielberg films. I thought that each of his music scores from Spielberg movies couldn't capture the whole showcase overall. I decide to go with Spielberg's TV show theme from "Amazing Stories". I figure it fit the mold, but not the length of the presentation. So I decided to replay the short track and lope it together to fit the presentation. This project I present here I may continue to look for a longer track of this theme and change it once again to give it justice. I believe you can always go back and present your remake of your work to the mass if we feel it is not done well with the materials we have before. Spielberg shows this in "Close Encounters remake". The education of TCI should help us with the tools needed to perfect our skills.

http://youtu.be/4LcOZcWuXqc
         My link to my IMovie

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