New vision for a New Hope

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2018)

George Lucas had vision...and it included light swords, space battles and giant lasers! Seriously though, Lucas was ahead of his time due to several points that helped shape movie making today. First off was his interpretation of what a dog fight in space would look like, both from an aerial view and from the view of the cockpit. Lucas also wanted to make the the fighters dive zig zag and spin.
And of course a film featuring futuristic technology couldn't be complete without a technologically advanced camera. Lucas used the the Dykstraflex, which was the first digital motion control photography camera system...seriously look it up, it's something out science fiction. It allowed for more smoothly filmed space battles with less errors on the cameras behalf.