Introduction
James Francis Cameron, who was born on August 16, 1954 in Ontario, Canada, is a famous film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is good at shooting action films and science-fiction films. Titanic and Avatar are the two most famous films directed by him. His father Phillip Cameron is an engineer and mother Shirley Cameron is an artist. In the next content I will stalk the career of James Cameron and his influence to society according to the social media he uses.
Biography
In 1971 James Cameron moved to the United States, studying physics in California. After leaving the college, he worked as a truck driver.
In 1977, After Cameron watched the classic science-fiction movie Star Wars directed by George Lucas, he began to realize what he wants to do.
In 1980, he found his first formal job in the film industry, which was the art director of Battle beyond the Stars directed by Roger Corman. His job was to product special effects work design.
In 1981, he was employed as the director of Piranha Part Two: The Spawning. The film was shot in Italy. Due to the conflicts between Cameron and stuff, the producer didn't even let him participate in the final editing of the film. Cameron was angry that he spent weeks editing the whole movie by himself. Since then, Cameron vowed to make movies for himself.
In 1984, James Cameron wrote and directed the movie Terminator with an inspiration in a dream. This action film set in the future was acted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The investment was not much, but the film had created a great sensation. Cameron had attracted widespread attention due to the success of the film.
In 1985, Cameron and Stallone wrote the screenplay of Rambo: First Blood Part II together. The film st...
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...es. In the film he made the team a total of 2000 people, including more than 800 digital engineers, and the whole team had only 37 actors. 80% of the whole film investment and production costs were used on the digital equipments. In this way, Avatar turned out on 18th December 2009. The film is an iconic work of highly developed human virtual modeling technology. Some reckon it as a milestone work in the history of 3D film. James Cameron himself called it a painstaking work.
Conclusion
Everyone envy James Cameron’s influence now, but the story behind his success is more commendable. His attitude and better work ethic are undoubtedly instructive for young people who want quick success. Through twitter, Google+ and other social media people can know more about what events he's taking, what kind of things he likes and even know the shooting schedule of his new movie.
Throughout history, the film industry has seen many directing styles and techniques. The early part of the 20th century saw a factory style of film production, but as the years went by, director's began to employ new and untried techniques in their pictures. One such technique which these director's implemented was a new approach to the use of the camera and camera angles. "Casablanca," an Academy Award winning film of 1942 saw director Michael Curtiz manipulate the camera in ways others had not. He uses the close-up, point-of- view, and creative shot motivation methods in his film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, to create an American cinema classic.
Now that we have a script, and we'll cut out the process of submitting it to movie studios, the next step would be pre-production. For this purpose, we'll use a fictional studio and call it L 0 L studios. This studio, after accepting the script, would hire a producer. Let's use a name here, like Richard Donner. His job is to hire a director, audition a cast, find a location to film, or decide if it can be done on a sound stage (possibly both), and try to keep it all under budget. Our director would be James Cameron, because with his success recently, his name alone would bring people to see this movie, which is the whole goal of the project. Casting is difficult, because certain factors have to be looked at, such as looks, (do they look the part?
Five years later he became an actor assigned to a seven year contract with the Warner Brothers. He then relocated to Hollywood where he made around fifty movies. In 1947 Ronald Reagan was elected to be the president of the Screen Actors Gu...
Kevin Tod Haug was born December 27, 1956 in California and has been in the film industry since the 1970s. He is an American visual effects supervisor and one of Hollywood’s most innovative visual effects designers. He is well-known for creating the title sequence for Fight Club (1999), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Quantum of Solace (2008). In 2009, he was nominated alongside Chris Corbould for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for their work on Quantum of Solace (2008).
Lucas the chance to make a foothold in the film industry, and he certainly did.
THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back…the list goes on and on. Although many have not heard of each of these films, everyone certainly has to know the man behind them. George Lucas has, in many cases, written, produced, and directed, not to mention edit, his own films. His vision was the driving force that imagined and created these movies. All have made back the cost of the film and most have received millions of dollars in profit.
The R.M.S.Titanic touch many people in America and around the world. The story of the Titanic inspired James Cameron, who would soon go on to be the writer, producer, and director of the retelling of the Titanic tragedy, in the movie The Titanic. It was categorized as an epic romantic disaster film, a fictionalized version of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. James Cameron wasn’t the only person to try to recreate the doomed Titanic story. Here are 5 other movies that attempted to capture the Titanic drama-
In 1984, Tarantino started working at the Hermosa Beach Video Archives in Manhattan where he struck up a friendship with fellow worker Roger Avary with whom he would later collabarate. He continued to study acting at Allen Garfield's Actors' Shelter in Beverly Hills but began to concentrate mainly on script writing. He loved westerns and his favourite was 'ride the whirlwind' directed by Monte Hellman who later was an executive producer on reservoir dogs. He also loved Rio Bravo (another western) which came out before he was born (1959) and was directed by Haward hawks. His favourite di... ...
Director Tim Burton has directed many films. He started out working at Disney, but shortly after he decided to make his own films. He split away from Disney because they wouldn’t let him add the scariness and darkness he has in his films. After he left he created many great films and also developed his own style. He uses many cinematic techniques in his films for example he uses close-up camera angles on symbolic items, he uses music to show foreshadowing, and he uses lighting and color to show mood
Cameron, James, Dir. The Terminator. Perf. Schwarzenegger, Arnold, Linda Hamilton, and Micheal Biehn. Orion Pictures: 1984, Film.
Born on 30th of July 1970 in London United Kingdom to a British father and American mother. Because of that he has both British and American citizenship and has been living in both London and Chicago since his childhood. He found his passion for filmmaking at early ages and at age 7 he made his first short film with his father’s camera. Eventually just like most directors he did not attend film universities, instead he went on to study English literature in London, his hometown. One of his early short films which is probably his best also, is ‘Doodlebug’ which he made in
...ing considered for multiple films like another Terminator and Predator. He is still acting in movies to this day, remaking some of his older movies and acting in new sequels to his older movies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was a well know person, he did a lot of things to be famous in his lifetime. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a recognized around the globe. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in some movies.Arnold Schwarzenegger exploded with fans.Arnold Schwarzenegger has a really easy life now but it wasn’t all like that .Arnold Schwarzenegger had a really hard lifetime.
But even though Griffith was no longer making films, he had done his part. He had successfully expanded the audience for cinema, introduced the feature film to America, and created one of the first blockbusters ever. The techniques he used to make his films so great such as the wide shot, close up, and quick cut are still key components of modern films. It is Griffith's legacy that makes him " “single most important individual in the development of film as an art” (Drew).
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