steven spielbergs methods

 Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and studio  entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades,

 Spielberg’s films have coveredmany themes and genres. Spielberg’s early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood  blockbuster filmmaking.Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).

 Three of Spielberg’s films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time.

 To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide.

Steven Spielberg uses a variety of visual methods to tell his story in many dynamique ways such as

wide lenses, and he uses them to film tracking shots, over-the-shoulder shots, close-ups, and any other shot in which he wants to make the foreground subject dominate the background.  He can be very bold in his use of wide lenses, much bolder than most other filmmakers, which is sweetly ironic, given that he is so frequently (and unfairly) accused of always playing it safe. I think you will find that Steven Spielberg is actually one of the most ambitious, risk-taking filmmakers in the whole history of cinema.

Steven Spielberg loves to frame characters through openings created by all sorts of objects.

Track in 2 shot - In this shot the camera frames two characters in a medium 2-shot and very slowly moves in to end on a tighter 2-shot. This technique is typically used to cover a scene in which to characters are discussing a topic of special importance.

Steven Spielberg is one of the few filmmakers who can truly pull it off. Spielberg used plenty of hand-held camerawork in “Schindler’s List” as part of a conscious stylistic choice, but it wasn’t the first time that he used hand-held camerawork (there is a hand-held shot in “The Sugarland Express”, when William Atherton and Goldie Hawn go into the men’s WC at the halfway house).  He has used hand-held camerawork with some frequency ever since “Schindler’s List.”

There are some beautiful hand-held shots in “Catch me if you can.” Spielberg does these hand-held shots so well and uses them to such great effect that one cannot imagine those scenes being filmed with anything other than a hand-held camera. Another recent Spielberg film that features plenty of outstanding hand-held shots is “Munich.”