Case study Titanic

The movie Titanic is based on the boat (true story) which sank. The genre of the movie is romantic/disaster. The story is pitched as 'Romeo and Juliet on a boat in which Jack, pinned down as lower-class hero with good looks fall in love with Rose - Heroine who is in distress and engaged to Cal) happen to be beautiful. Cal, sharp looks, dark hair, making him the 'villain'. Hero and Heroine win each other, but a tragedy occurs in the end. The budget cost of the movie was $200,ooo,ooo, Leonardo DiCaprio was paid $2.5million. Kate Winslet paid just under 1million.Production companies were Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Lightstorm Entertainment. 12 dives needed when shooting the real footage of the Titanic, Deepsea camera developed by Panavision and Cameron's brother Mike, which could withstand the 400 atmospheres of pressure at that depth. 12 minutes of film only in the deep-sea camera and it took many hours. 1/33 scale model of the ship constructed for rehearsals. Production started September 1st, 1995. Filming lasted for 160 days (originally planned for 138, but cast members became ill with cold, flu and kidney infections which meant it had to be extended). Part of the set where water first comes rushing through a doorway had to be re-built to withstand a higher pressure as Cameron wanted triple the amount water that was originally intended (40,000 gallons). The movie could not have been made without the use of CGI(computer generated imagery) and effects. Digital water and smoke were added. extras captured on a motion capture stage. The faces of many actors were scanned, including visual effects supervisor Rob Legato and his children, for the digital extras and stuntmen. There was also a 65-foot (20 m) long model of the ship's stern that could break in two repeatedly, the only miniature to be used in water. For scenes set in the ship's engines, footage of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien engines were composited with miniature support frames and actors shot against greenscreen. To save money, the First Class Lounge was a miniature set incorporated into a greenscreen backdrop. For final plunging scene, full-sized tilting set used, with 150 extras and 100 stuntmen. Cameron criticized previous Titanic films for depicting the final plunge of the liner as sliding gracefully underwater. He "wanted to depict it as the terrifyingly chaotic event that it really was". To carry out the sequence, people were needed to fall off the increasingly tilting deck, plunging hundreds of feet and bouncing off railings and propellers on the way down. "A few attempts to film this sequence with stunt people resulted

in some minor injuries and Cameron halted the more dangerous stunts." The risks were eventually minimized "by using computer generated people for the dangerous falls". Importance of music was realised very late by Cameron .'My Heart Will Go On' by Celine Dion, iconic to film, music video montage accompanied it. This was secretly composed by Dion, James Horner and Will Jennings after Cameron said that he did not want to included any song in the film, even at the closing credits. The song won an Oscar Financing the movie was a great risk which was taken by the 20th Century fox company but Cameron managed to convince them to invest in the film after saying that real footage of the wreck would be good for the movie. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures (USA theatrical release. It was marketed through Posters, trailers and a tagline. Publicity was mainly done by word of mouth and many featurettes. The movie was released in approximately 65 countries. The merchandise icluded Calender, Bottle tops, earphones, puzzles, key rings, cigarette lighters ect. The film was released on 18th November, 1997 in (UK), 14th December, 1997 in (USA) London and Los Angeles premieres respectively. 19th December 1997 in (USA) and 23rd January 1998 in (UK). The original release date was meant to be 25th July, 1997. This was changed for two reasons: one being that production (especially CGI) took longer than anticipated, and the other being that Harrison Ford demanded the date to be moved after finding out that 'Air Force One' was scheduled to be released on the same day. Paramount agreed to this, thinking that if they didn't, Ford would never work with them again. The film was screened in cinemas from 21st December 1997 - 20th September 1998 (final cinema gross). Number of screens used for opening weekend were 2, 674 in (USA) and 416 in (UK). The Box office taking in opening weekend was $28, 638, 131 (USA). After it's theatrical period it was released on VHS, laserdisc (September 1st, 1998) DVD (July 31st, 1999) TV showings. Cameron also re-released the movie in 3-D in cinemas for sometime during 2012. The film won a total of 11 Oscars: Best art direction/set decoration -Peter Lamont (art director), Michael Ford (set decorator) Best cinematography - Russell Carpenter Best costume design - Deborah Lynn Scott Best Director - James Cameron Best effects, sound effects editing - Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes

Best effects, visual effects - Robert Legato, Mark. A Lasoff, Thomas. L Fisher, Michael Kanfer Best film editing - Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris Best music, original dramatic score - James Horner Best music, original song - James Horner (music) Will Jennings (lyrics) 'My Heart Will Go On' - Celine Dion Best Picture - James Cameron, Jon Landau Best Sound - Gary Rydstorm, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano It was also nominated for: Best actress in a supporting role Best actress in a lead role Best Makeup It also received wins internationally: Best foreign feature film (James Cameron) - Amanda awards, Norway Best foreign film - Awards of the Japanese Academy Anthony Asquith award for film music (James Horner) - BAFTA's Bogey award in titanium - Bogey Awards, Germany Best Soundtack - Brit Awards Box office award - Czech Lions Best foreign film (James Cameron) - Cesar awards, France Film - international (Kate Winslet) - Golden camera, Germany