Jaws was such a popular film because of it`s realism. Before Jaws, Hollywood films were not shot on the ocean. Steven Spielberg really wanted to portray realism in this movie. This continued through the Twentieth Century Fox period which defined a new Hollywood. During this time, there were many blockbusters especially the ever so popular titanic. The titanic also had a sense of realism as the shooting took place at the reconstruction of a ship built in a 40 acre studio that included a 50 foot lifting platform for the sinking sequences of the film.
During this period of time, not only were movie sets changing and evolving but so were the ways of movie presentation- with the development of home video. After the coming of cable TV, and home video sets, most people watched films on a television set. Years later, the internet has changed the way people view films and television as it can easily be streamed to our portable devices. According to the text, the most important transformation in movie watching was the innovation of the video cassette recorder (VCR), which then transformed into DVD players, and now we have DVR players.
This section was a blast to the past, really. There were thousands and thousands of places that would rent or sell home videos (blockbuster being one of the largest) which then became DVD rentals which then ended up going out of business and then there was RedBox, Netflix, Hulu, and a million other streaming outlets. We have lived to see so many transformations in film and video.
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