What is Steven Spielberg

The technical and technological developments have changed cinema production countless times throughout its history. While Georges Méliès started this journey at the beginning of the 1900s, it can be said that Norman O. Dana, a visual effects specialist and a producer, has carried the flag further and given visual effects their contemporary form. In 1993, thanks to the combined efforts by director Steven Spielberg and visual effects supervisor Stan Winston, dinosaurs came back to life on the big screen. When the movie adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park first hit the theaters, it was applauded by most critics as a work that is ahead of its time in terms of visual effects and the richness of its storytelling. This chapter aims to trace the transformation of visual effects in the Jurassic Park movie series, as well as to expose the effects of this transformation on storytelling. To that end, the chapter consists of a comprehensive review and descriptive analyses.