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What challenges did James Cameron have in realizing his vision?

James CAmeron faced the challenge of the genre that he was trying to go for because he wanted it to be more of a fantasy, action, adventure not a sci-fi movie. ALso the tech did not become advance enough until now so that he can actually make use of it in his movie.

What was the process used in creating Pandora?

THe processed that they used to create Pandora was that they took what we already had on this earth and used the CG to create a even more elaberate world like the floating mountain and the extension of forest that is longer than the amazon.

How has performance caputure changed the filmmaking process?

THe performance was actually physical movement that they putt little dots on the face of the actors and got them into suits that allow motion capture then put them in a room with cameras all over including a mic connected to the helmet and then have them physically act out all the motions made the movie. So everything that the avatar did then actors themselves had to do in the vault. ALso because of the motion capture the Cg characters like the avatar can use the facial expressions of the actor without having to actually do on a computer later.

THe cost for avatar was very experncive because the techwas not create so it cost 400 million dollars to make. 250 million was used on the making of the actual movie and then the next 150 million was used on just the advertising of the movie avatar. THe movie is expected to make about 1.26 billion dollars THe problems about making the most expensive movie is not trying to make a movie that is going to be really bad and fall and bomb which will not make the money that they should have to loose money to instead of make money. ALso another problem that they have to deal with profit is piracy which takes the movie without paying which will also cut into their profits. THe mass budget that was spent on this film I feel does not really help portray the message that the film maker was trying to make instead it was just distracting the people from the actual message.

I feel that the plot is recycled but the way that they use it is different because it is showing ideas that allow us to understand and feel what it is that the reader is trying to say. I disagree with the critics that the movie is aniti-war and is racial at all but use these implications to futher certain archtypes that need these aspects to be truely able to consolidate the idea of the archetype and how the achtype plays out in our society.