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Spielberg shouting out "Steve Soderbergh who made Sex Lies & Videotape" in the year it came out says a lot about his character and appreciation for new talent.
Now I want to watch Raiders and Jurassic and War of the Worlds, where are those DVD's? Love the video and the Director since I was a kid. I still look up to Spielberg and wait for his next movies like i was 10 again.
Incredible, for years I thought he got help for storyboarding from Moebius... Seeing his illustrations make me respect him even more. What a talented human being.
Alan Grant was based on John Horner mostly, who had a beard. The other celebrity palaeontologist of the time, Bob Bakker, had an even bigger beard. So palaeontologists were seen as beardy.
1:51 -- 1941 was not Spielberg's third movie, as he says in this video. It was his fifth. Seems he is not proud of Duel (1971) or The Sugarland Express (1974).
Yeah, that’s odd. Does he exclude them because they weren’t wide theatrical releases? I get why James Cameron ignores Piranha 2 since he was fired after 5 days by the Italian producer who wanted to take over the production, but for Duel and Sugarland they were all Spielberg.
Bravo!! A superb compendium to gather all the disparate elements and assemble them into a coherent whole. Of course the cut from the match to the sunrise is the greatest straight cut in cinema, even exceeding the cut from the bone to the spaceship. I had to say that about that cut. That cut made me want to make films which I have done for more than fifty years. Your presentation made me want to start making films all over again.
Why was Raised by Wolves cancelled, because of the short term audience figures, so what! Surely you play the long game now days as these shows will get their audience figures over time as they will end up being watched over time as part of the companies films & TV shows libraries . Cancelling shows raises the question why invest our time watching shows without a conclusion??? Amazon does it way too often (American Gods, Outer Range, Night Sky) so I cancelled my subscription!
Harrison Ford was awesome as Han and Indy. Ford was also an asshole and he just gradually turned into an even older and more ornery asshole until we have the man we have today.
*Dave Stevens,* Master illustrator, storyboarded the truck chase sequences for Raiders. Dave Stevens went on to create "The Rocketeer" comic series (a story that took place in the same 1940's "Raiders" era), which in turn became a famous graphic novel; Which in turn became a film in 1991 produced by Disney starring Bill Campbell and Jennifer Connelly. I suggest checking both the movie and "The Rocketeer" graphic novel out; They're both Great!
One more thing: Every director I worked with was different. Some of them explained exactly what they wanted in each picture. Others just had me read the script and draw whatever I saw fit. When I was done, some directors followed my storyboards almost exactly. Others did something completely different, as though they had never even seen my drawings - which made me wonder why they hired me in the first place! Then, there were those in between, that followed some shots, but disregarded others. Oh well...I got paid either way!
@@jerrythefilmmaker8229 Probably nowhere. All of the movie stuff I did back in the day is on paper, and whatever copies I have are stored away in boxes, somewhere. For the last 20 or so years, though, I've been working full time at a company called Mirage Entertainment, which produces live stunt shows at amusement parks (similar to the "Waterworld" show at Universal Studios). I do have this more recent stuff on computer files, and could send it to you, if your interested, but you would never have heard of any of them. Most of them are from theme parks in China and one is from a western stunt show at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. These are just the only ones I have on computer files, rather than paper.
Same here. Sometimes the storyboards were mainly for convincing the producer that everything was planned and well thought-out. And then the director did what he thought was best, without sticking to the storyboards. Fun story: on one job I remembered storyboarding an action sequence with two sailing boats. But during the filming, one of the boats accidentally hit the other boat. The insurance company refused to cover the damage because they thought it was intentionally. Luckily for the producer, my storyboards proved that it was not planned at all and that the boats were intended to race each other and not hit each other. So storyboards sometimes can save you. 🤭
I was a Hollywood storyboard artist. Worked on big ones (like "Titanic", "Independence Day", and "The Game") and more little ones than I can count. Also worked in animation on "Rugrats". Here's the thing though. This video makes it look easy. In fact, it's quite tedious and time consuming. The average script page requires about 20 pictures (and the average script is about 120 pages long). How long would it take you to draw 20 pictures? For me, I could handle about 2 pages of rough sketches a day and half a page of good drawings (like the ones shown in this video) a day. So the length of time it would take for one artist to board out a whole script (in good pictures) would take longer than the time it takes to actually shoot the movie! Fortunately, most directors don't need storyboards for the easy scenes (like conversations around a dinner table), but only for the action scenes or special effects scenes, which cuts the work load down some. Also, most big movies have several storyboard artists, instead of just one - which cuts the workload down even more. Still... it's long, tedious, stay-up-all-night work, and storyboard artists don't even get a mention on the credits. At least, I never did!
Thanks for sharing that part of your story(board *wink wink). Seriously though, that is a lot of work done behind the scenes that most (including myself) didn’t even realize was a thing. I’m just learning about storyboarding in preparation of starting my own RU-vid channel. Any tips on how to best implement a very simple storyboard into the creation of RU-vid videos, and quite simply, do I actually need one?
I'm too old to know much about making You Tube videos - but the ones I have seen seem fairly simple to me. So I wouldn't think you would need boards...but, then, you know more about your project than I do! So if you think you need them, then you need them! That's about the best advice I can give you. Every project is different.
I find it truly shocking that the names of the artists who draw a storyboard don't appear in the end credits of a movie. Association of Film Storyboard Artists (AFSA) - NOW!
Story board artists won’t be needed anymore. Directors have already starting using A.I apps like mid journey and dall e etc. Sora can possibly make feature length films.
storyboard artist here too. Yes, the documentary shows only the relationship of Spielberg with the actors showing the storyboard, but doesn't show the dinamic between the graphic artist and the director, besides, the name of the artists never is mentioned or how time tooks every case or the work process. I hope at least the fee for drawing was fair (I don't know how much is in U,S,)
Lean, God bless him, never sat around expatiatng about the sacred distance between the camera and its subject and other theories of profundity in film; he just MADE profound films.
it is actually a good lesson from an actor to a storyboard artist, the fact that Harrison Ford walked out on Spielberg... goes to show, that actors are not necessarily visual thinkers, and reviewing the movie like that, is probably very confusing... more complicated than helpfull
It's crazy seeing how much labor involved in rotoscoping the birds at the end. Handpainting frame by frame the background sky out. Possibly weeks of work! Modern consumer software would do that with about 3 or 4 mouse clicks!
Lean, the emperor-genius of the long take. Spellbinding imagery such as this has never been equaled in cinema. A true artist on so many levels. Adore and miss this man!
Lawerence of Arabia remains the best film I’ve ever seen 62 years later,,,,funny enough Oliver Twist in my eyes is Leans #2 film,,, it is a wonder to look at,,, under appreciated
This was so informative and helpful (and well Made) thank you so much for creating this video. Steven and George have always been the biggest influence on my film making career. I went to Dream Works as a kid during the making on the film "Small Soldiers" and it blew my mind that this was a job "Grown Up's" did for a living.
