STEVEN ALLAN SPIELBERG

Rayanne Kayla Litchmore

DIRECTOR

SCREEN

WRITER

PRODUCER

BUSINESS MAGNATE

Background information

Date of birth: December 18, 1946 (age 66)

Upcoming movies: American Sniper, The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun

“Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946. He went to California State University Long Beach, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career.” (IMDB)

Films he directed…

Awards6 AFI Awards

12

Academy

Awards

6 Academy of scientific Awards

2 American cinema editor

awards

& MANY MORE

War of th

e worlds

came out in 2005

and was a

thriller/sc

i-fi.

Mise-en-scene: The high mass or army personal in one area emphasises the seriousness of the calamity that is about it occur. This will build suspense for the audience because they’ll be asking them questions for example ‘will the people survive’, ‘will they be able to stop the threat.

War of the worlds

Camera angles: Spielberg uses a long shot to show the width of how many shoulders are in that one small area. This is effective because all though you cant see the soldiers full body you can see their heads thus giving the audience an idea of how many personal are there.

Colour: In this scene of the film there is a burst of a dull but light colour over the threat. The key light is shining on the ‘head’ of the threat, the back light is sky behind and the light shining on the pavement is the filler light. Spielberg may have done this to represent something mysterious emerging from the distance. He didn’t want to reveal it all at once so he covered it with the light to create some sort of suspense on the audience behalf.

Camera angles: The wide shot shows how the area is desolate and everyone is astonished by this new threat that has appeared. This gives the audience a perspective on how they might have felt.

Location: The film is set in the Northern states of America, typical sci fi/ disaster films seem to be set in the northern states, the majority New York. Spielberg could be trying to connate that America/ New York is the capital of corruption.