My Interview Project

Firstly, this project was seemed very difficult to me. The interviews in the assigned website are very long. The speakers are the native speaker of English.  These are why these interviews are difficult to understand. But this is my assignment and also as Shakespeare said that 'Cowards die many times before their deaths', lastly, I did that assignment, too :) I should say that learning a language is much more exposure to that language. This project reminds all of us the importance of listening activities, and practices again...

The interviewer is Francine Stock. The interviewee is James Cameron whose last film is Avatar. Topics are the title of the movie, 3D technology, makeup of the avatars.

The first question is about the title best noted for computer gaming. The term avatar becomes quite common and people are associated with their online avatars, gaming avatars. He says that his aim is not to change the title having different associations for people.

The second question is about the characters in Avatar. It is a physiological representation. He casts people to play both Navi characters and the avatars who have strong faces. If he wants them to be fast, they have to have active bodies. It is a simplification of that navi versus the humans according to him.

And the third question is about how to strengthen the humanlike characters on screens. He spends 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 flaps, we benefits from makeup and recordings of every detailed motions of mouth, eyes or ears.

Thirdly, Francine Stock asks ‘do you think 3D is going to be stable film?’. He says he will continue to produce films in 3D and we see the world in 3D.

The fifth question is a fact about the 3D in cinema which is more powerful than 3D in home. James Cameron also agrees that fact.

The last question is about the effect and the role of science in cinema. He thinks science is not the major factor in cinema. Ecology and colonization are said to be possible reasons of big battles at present .

If I were the interviewer, I would like to ask him :

• Why did you produce such kind of a science fiction fiction movie ?
• If the Avatar were real, how could our world be ?

If you want to listen the interview, click here. 

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