During this project, we explored the wonder that is filmmaking, you must have at least heard of the movie “Avatar”? well, the sequel came out recently, it’s called “Avatar, the Way of Water”.
I’m not very fond of spoilers, so I won’t spill to many details, but this movie was about Jake and his mate Neytiri, and their kids! They though that they were free from the wrath of the sky people, but they were wrong. They had to leave the forest in order to join hands with the water people. Naturally, the war they were waging with the sky people followed them, the movie is about the how Jake, Neytiri, their kids, and the water people fight the war.
Aside from watching Avatar (AMAZING movie btw), the first thing we did was interview a fellow classmate as practice for the documentary (I’ll talk more about that momentarily) about their favourite food – with follow up questions of course! I had the honour to interview my friend, Cameron, and vice versa. Here’s how it went, filmed and edited by yours truly!:
Next thing was a B-Roll interview! A B-Roll is basically just an interview but with an assortment of images with audio of the interviewee talking over top of it. The featured actors art Julia (interviewer) and Jupiter (interviewee)! Here’s how it turned out (again, filmed + edited by yours truly ✨):
The film we made was a documentary inspired off of an aspect of the Avatar movies. I had decided on military, as this was a topic I was interested in, it was also one of the main topics in Avatar. Of course since we’re in PLP here, there had to be more to it, and so I added “and how they affect the people, and the world around them.” After searching around a bit, I decided that I would interview my grandmother, she grew up in a few army bases so I figured that she would have some insights. To my luck, she agreed! Here’s the finished interview:
The documentary as a whole was supposed to be much longer, although I didn’t manage to finish it before the exhibition, speaking of which, I didn’t make it to the exhibition either! I caught a cold, everyone told me I didn’t miss out on much though lol.
My “Because” + the driving answer!
“What does James Cameron’s fantasy world of Avatar reveal about society today?”
That humans being can be greedy, we take what we want, not what we need. We only ever think about how our actions will impact present us, not future us. We hold the fate of the earth and our future generations in out hands, and we decide to throw it around like a game of hot potato. What we have is a privilege, not a right.
I believe that James Cameron wants what’s best for the world, not himself. If we don’t all life on earth to go extinct due to our greediness and our current benefit in just a couple centuries, then we clearly need to do something about the way things have been going.
Thank you so much for reading my blog post, I hope it was adequate lol! See you next time ^_^