{"id":11364,"date":"2011-03-30T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2011-03-30T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:35:21","slug":"joe-alves-on-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/03\/30\/joe-alves-on-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-spielberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Alves on Close Encounters of the Third Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11367\" title=\"Joe Alves on Close Encounters of The Third Kind\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Joe-Alves-on-Close-Encounters-of-The-Third-Kind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Production designer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0023469\/\">Joe Alves<\/a><\/strong> describes how he found the iconic locations for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075860\/\">Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/a><\/strong> (1978).<\/p>\n<p>He had already worked with director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Spielberg\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> on films such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072226\/\">The Sugarland Express<\/a> (1974) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073195\/\">Jaws<\/a> (1975), but Close Encounters involved more elaborate sets and visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HerveAttia\">Herve Attia<\/a> he discusses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finding the houses for the Neary and Guiler families<\/li>\n<li>The enormous set built for various sequences including the climax<\/li>\n<li>How his musical background influenced the famous colour scoreboard<\/li>\n<li>His thoughts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind#Release\">different versions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How the light of the spaceship was created<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind\">More on Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HerveAttia\">Herve Attia&#8217;s channel on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production designer Joe Alves describes how he found the iconic locations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1953,1952,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}