October 14, 2005
Spielberg invents new experience
According to Digital Spy the rather lacklustre of late Steven Spielberg has been distracted by something quite different.
If you'll remember way back he pioneered something exceptionally cool in movies, the push-pull shot, well now he's even started working on the actual technology.
He has declared that his new method will provide a more visually involving experience for audiences and has dubbed it "the future of cinema".The director told The Hollywood Reporter: "You will physically be inside the experience, which will surround you top, bottom, on all sides. I've invented it, but because patent is pending, I can't discuss it right now."
No more details than that I'm afraid, although it does sound more than just camera technology, surely it's about viewers or some form of screen around the audience...I'm not sure, but it does start you thinking. Perhaps he's just having a laugh and he's talking about a new release of Jaws 3D!
Posted by Richard Brunton at October 14, 2005 02:54 AM
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Posted by: wampachow at October 14, 2005 09:26 AM
Despite what IMDB say, and they do get things wrong, it's not exactly the same shot, similar but not the same. It's often credited and called the same thing.
That's what the articles I read this morning were telling me anyway!
Posted by: Richard Brunton at October 14, 2005 09:35 AM
I'm pretty sure Hitchcock did the push-pull in Vertigo. I checked IMDb and in the Trivia: "Uncredited second-unit cameraman Irmin Roberts invented the famous "forward zoom and reverse tracking" shot (now sometimes called "contra-zoom" or "trombone shot") to convey the sense of vertigo to the audience. The view down the mission stairwell cost $19,000 for just a couple of seconds of screen time."
However, I would assume it's often called the "trombone shot" because there's a trombone glissando during one of those shots in Jaws.