AVATAR Trivia

In order to find a female lead for Avatar, a casting call was posted on the website of Mali Finn, the Executive Casting Director of Bass Casting. The casting call was mistakenly reported to be for James Cameron's Battle Angel (due to be released in 2013). This shows the use of new technology (www2) and the significance it is beginning to have in the film industry.

In the UK, the film was shipped under the codename of "Redbird" in two parts, firstly in reels 1-5 and in the following day in reels 6-10.

As there would be no actual jungle for the cast and crew to act and film in during production, James Cameron took the actors and his crew into the jungles and forests of Hawaii so that they could understand what life would be like in Pandora. They spent their days trekking throught the forests and living in a tribe-like state. During these treks, Zoe Saldana dressed up as a warrior, and even donned an alien tail, similar to the one of her character in Avatar, Neytiri. Despite the rural manner in which the cast and crew acted in the jungle, these treks were only done in the daytime as they returned to spend their nights at a Four Seasons hotel.

Avatar is around 40% live action and 60% CGI, generated by motion capture technology. James Cameron's pioneering new technology used to film Avatar shows how far filming has progressed over the last few years. New technology like this shows us how the process of filming and films themselves will begin to change the in the future. Cameron combining different types of hardware in Avatar shows evidence of technological convergence.