Dressler Productions
Saving Private Ryan
In saving Private Ryan it’s based off real information and its through and through one of the best world war two movies. Steven and his team got the idea from an old newspaper from world war two talking about how in one week three of four brothers had passed away in battle. The fourth being Private Ryan, the government called for him to be found in the hills of normandy and bring him home to his parents.
All the key actors for the film actually went through basic training. They went through ten days of boot camp by the instructor USMC Captain Dale Dye. In 1986 Oliver Stone hired Captain Dye to rain actors for Platoon.
In the movie Steven likes to focus on the primary character in the scene. So if you have a shot where on of the characters on scene has the focus the camera is right on them. It kind if makes the scenes more person for that individual person. This is a theme that has a important role in this movie.
Here is an image of Spielberg and Dye to his left. Captain Dye walked all the actors through most of the battle scenes. His help was definitely needed for the d-day scene. that took 27 minutes of showtime and zero storyboarding. For the d-day scene he used 40 barrels of stage blood, and 1,300 extras and 30 amputees. With a 70$ million dollar budget.
Skate Movie
By RedBull
In this behind the scenes RedBull gives us an inside look at how some of their pro skaters get everything on film. These pictures are all different methods the used to make a single skate video. This isn't even a movie its kind of one long ad for RedBull but honestly most us are there just to see the skating. They have everything from a whole car set up to setting the camera on tracks to hanging it up on pulleys and wire six feet in the air, and the best method. Rolling around on a skateboard with a camera following your friend. I actually love filming on a board. When you get so comfortable on a skateboard you can ride it and have solid fluid movements and it completely changes the way a clip can turn out.
In this shortened clip you can see the camera operator pulling the camera backwards while someone holds a piece of wood up so there is something in front of the shot from the cameras point of view.
In the picture below you see Nicholas Schrunk, he is the director of this " movie " In his left hand you can see what is somewhat a script: Skateboarding cant really be scripted its what the skater feels comfortable to send . In his right hand he is talking to everyone who has a purpose on this set, the multiple camera operators etc.
In this shot you could never tell it was filmed from an arm coming off a car. With a police escort they safely was able to get the perfect shot. The car itself looks so cool.