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     I listened an interview recording with a celebrity. I think this project is really challenging for me because they were speaking very fast and I am not accustomed to listening the speech of the native speakers. I listened the recording over and over again by taking notes. However, I have learned a lot of new words and new information in this process.:)

     James Cameron was interviewed and the interviewer was Francine Stock. James Cameron explained his last film, Avatar. He mentioned about the title of movie, the features of film characters, 3 D technology, make-up of the avatars and the battle of avatars with humans.

     The interviewer constructs the interview by mentioning Avatar which is the biggest selling film of all time. She said ‘James Cameron reflects on the future of screens big and small. Avatar taking 2.7 billion dollars around the world will be released on DVD in the America on Monday. And also, she talked about the opportunities of film increasing sophistication related to blue rays in home.

     The first question was related to title best noted for computer gaming. According to James Cameron, the term of Avatar became quite common and people are associated with their online avatars, gaming avatars. His aim was not to change the title having different associations for people. And then, people began to like doing online. He added that they invested their all energy within this film like Jack into his body and he spent more time to biological avatar.

     The second question was associated with the characters in his representation of Avatar. Avatar was a physiological representation and James Cameron casted people to play both Na’vi characters and the avatars who had strong faces. When he wanted them to be beautiful, fast or active, they had to have active ears or tails, bodies. It was a part of spirit that wants to be free, powerful or wants to be in touch with nature but wiser. It was a simplification of that Na’vi versus the humans according to him.

     Later the interviewer asked him to give explanation about how to strengthen the humanlike characters on screens. He said ‘I spent a lot of time and energy on building a system to keep the spark of life in actor’s face alive through the inventers of CD characters. But when the technical means flapped, we benefited from make-up and recordings of very detailed motions of mouth, eyes or ears.’

     Later, Francine Stock talks about the usage of 3 D in the film and she asked ‘Do you think 3 D is going to be stable film?’ After that, he agreed with this idea. He said that ‘I will continue to produce films in 3 D and we see the world in 3 D.

     Another question was related to the fact that 3 D in home is slightly destroying the idea of they are went when you go to the cinema you are getting something which you can’t get from the home entertainment. James Cameron agreed that 3 D in cinema is different from home in terms of screen, size and 3 D will be always more powerful than 3 D in home.

     They talked about the effect and the role of science in cinema. According to him, we are curious human beings always trying to find new things and science is not the major factor in cinema. lastly, the intense message was discussed among them. Ecology and colonization are said to be possible reasons of big battles at present or in the future.

My Personal Questions:
1. Do you have another project related to science fiction after Avatar?
2. How could you imagine this world being different and what was the starting point of Avatar in your mind?

 Please click here for the interview recording