Avatrar Behind the Scene

1. What challenges did James Cameron have in realizing his vision?
One challenge that James Cameron had was putting themes together, that play out throughout the movie and intertwine with other themes. Also other challenges faced with the creation of this film was making the avatar character believable and making Pandaro itself believable because of the many factors that made Pandsora unique, such as the animals and the plants in Pandora.
Another challenge with the making of this film was capturing the real facial expressions of the actors, and making all of the avatars movements similar to that of the actors. Cameron had to make the actors walk as if they were in the jungle, which made it even more difficult for him because they could not actually film in a real jungle.

2. What was the process used creating Pandora?
The process used in the creation of Pandora was difficult because in order for the director to create such a planet he laterally had to envision a something that was out of this world. For example the animals of Pandora were so exotic that it must have taken a long time creating them, also the production crew had to base the animals used in the movie to real animals on earth. The plants also had to be based on real plants on earth, in order to make the audience believe that Pandora itself and all the biological things in it are real.

3. How has performance capture changed the filmmaking process?
Performance capture has changed the filmmaking process, because the director do not have to rely on the animation of a character because with performance capture the director can get the actors interpretation off the character on the spot, making it more realistic. Also with cgi technology it allowed the director to take the emotions of the actors in any scene and translate that to the actual character in the movie. Capturing facial expressions changed the film making process because animators were no longer involved in creating the characters emotion from scratch. Cameron was able to capture true human emotions from a non-living character, which makes it unique because it sets the stage for more realistic films in the future, because of the revolutionary impact performance capture had on the filmmaking process.

4. Around four hundred million dollars was spent on making and marketing this film. The problems that the news corps faced was that if the movie did not amazed the audience in the first week, that the movie overall would be a financial lost. I think that the money spent on this film limits the director’s message in the film, but make the actual delivery of the message much more interesting than other films. Because the amount of money spent on the production made the movie more realistic and more appealing toward the audience, which in terms caused the huge profit of the whole production.

5.I did not really pay attention to racial stereotypes that people suggest that they were used in this film, but after going back to the film, the message of racial stereotypes are present because the navi people are seen as the weak and the white people are seen as the superior race. Also the message that James Cameron is conveying about the military is clearly seen throughout the film, because through military power the white people are able to suppress the navi people. Also expressing the message of human imperialism, because the white settlers wanted to take control of the planet Pandora. I thought that the message about the military that Cameron is trying to convey can be seen in present times because a superior nation can take control over other inferior nations, which is clearly seen throughout this movie