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• Avatar
• Use of CGI (70%) and advanced
stereoscopic techniques
• “Performance Capture” stage 6
times larger than anything used
before
• Motion capture allows filmmaker
to move the camera with the click
of a mouse making 3D much
easier but also more like creating
a video game, not a movie
• Cameron developed virtual
monitor so he can see the actors
and the digital backgrounds at the
3D explained same time
What Makes a Film?
5 Steps to Avatar
Telling a Story
Formalism in
Rhythmus 21
by Hans Richter
Telling a Story
Salesman Rhythmus 21
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington,
Avatar
Telling a Story
Salesman
Telling a Story
I am Cuba
Telling a Story
Rhythmus 21
Le Retour à la Raison
André Bazin
Inception
Telling a Story
Cyrus
Telling a Story
“The way a story is told is part of that story. You can tell the
same story badly or well; you can also tell it well enough or
magnificently. It depends on who is telling the story.”
Herman G. Weinberg