The birth of Avatar (2)

Shot in the combination of scene, Cameron firstly use the virtual camera and a stuntman to create the shot. Cameron said:"We are basically shooting while post-production, so it will not destroy the final results, but will make it messy, because we were not able to figure out the technology in a timely manner, we did not complete the pre-motion capture before shooting. Later another deadline is approaching, the main role of the actor have come up, but we never give using the idea that design a good shot through stuntman. We always design a scene then design a good shot, finally shoot the acting. "

Most of the time, Cameron are shooting the actor wearing motion capture constume, and facial capture device, spend only a few days before shooting scenery inspections and design lens. Cameron said:” Normally, we are probably 10 days to inspect the scene motion capture, then use 10 days to capture the actor's movements. Then we will back to editing room, editing all the shots while send them to Weta, after that we inspect few days.” The actors on stage, Cameron regards virtual camera as a viewfinder, the virtual camera is a window leading to the virtual world. Nolan Murthan explained:” Jim regards the virtual camera as a viewfinder, to watch the virtual environment. Although other actors are leave, he often change some camera position. But they still need to arrangement a good shot before shooting.

After all the lens arranged, Cameron pay attention to the performance and high-definition cameras. Cameron stan on 8-12 HD cameras arena, shoot actors from different angles, the virtual camera as “Camera A” is the centre of scene. Richard Baneham said: " We should shoot the angle the main camera can not shoot. If there are two actors in one scenes, we should take the long shot to show their interaction, medium shots to present their relationship, medium shot is always taken parts above the knee, and then focus on close-up. If you want to capture the details of a complex hand props or exchange something like that, we will use a specialize camera.”