A scene always fascinates me whenever
I watch Steven Spielberg’s film.
Today I would like to talk about that.
[Discovery of Movie – Twenty sixth:
Steven Spielberg’s expression of first impression]
“Love starts with first impression.”
Shakespeare’s saying from 500years ago
Is still shines within the countless relationships.
We have every day.
I do not have to put emphasis on it.
This saying is also important in films, too.
Because so many first contact decides
The impression about the movie.
Spielberg takes this advantage
Better than anyone else.
Let’s see several examples.
The most important scene in ET is
The first contact between a child alienated
from the parents
And an alien left alone to Earth.
How did Spielberg express this?
[Give]
[Take]
Alien was not exposed
Secret, scary first impression is made.
And
After it appears again,
It gains more dramatic effect.
Just like this.
This first contact
Decides the tone of a movie
And let us focus more to the child and ET.
In “Close Encounters”, 
Spielberg also prepares very special first contact.
In here, UFO and human’s first contact is important.
He shows risky scene
That a child and mother is about to be hit by a car,
And then show this risky scene again
Like they can be hit again any time,
But showing UFO moves along the sky way
Instead of the highway.
Very pious atmosphere makes us
Let our mouth opened.
This first impression tone stays 
Until the later part of the movie.
Primacy effect, a term from psychology
Tells us that the first information is
the most important
Among all others.
If the first impression is not good,
It takes 200 times more effort to turn it over.
This importance of first impression
Is not applied only to specific genre.
First contact with Jaws,
The first impression to audience is
Not how Jaws looks like,
But the fear from the ocean.
Uncontrollable,
Unseen.
From this first contact, audiences are already
Fear for the ocean as much as the Jaws never seen yet.
Watching the vague ocean
already makes us scared.
After that, easy way comes.
To frighten the audience already in fear,
Is not very difficult.
The way to maximize gigantic object’s
First impression is,
shot!
Not taking shot and reverse shot back and forth,
But to continue the scene only with
Observer’s face.
And letting the observers’ view
Move to audience view,
This fantastic first impression always 
Makes audience hearts beat.
This first impression is also applied to spaces.
A character’s first impression facing wide airport
Would be embarrassing.
To show more of this,
Camera moves around,
Chasing him slowly,
And then moves around again,
Let us feel the space wider.
This first contact,
The only thing that Navoski and audience can do is,
To wander the terminal
Just as Spielberg intended.
Whenever I see these scenes
That Spielberg shows with
Perfect match to the theme and
atmosphere of the movie,
I entirely fall into his world.
When first impression is good,
Then whatever would look good to us.
Spielberg put stress on the first contact
Of two objects, and leaves
Strong first impression to audience.
That is Spielberg style.
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