James Cameron

James Cameron

Mini Bio ( source :IMDB)

James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, on August 16, 1954. He moved to the USA in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University but, after graduating, drove a truck to support his screen-writing ambition. He landed his first professional film job as art director, miniature-set builder, and process-projection supervisor on Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and debuted as a director with Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981) the following year.

In 1984, he wrote and directed The Terminator (1984), a futuristic action-thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. It was a huge success. After this came a string of successful science-fiction action films such as Aliens (1986) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Cameron is now one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood. He was formerly married to producer Gale Anne Hurd, who produced several of his films. He married Kathryn Bigelow in 1989.

In his resent film “Sanctum” He talked about how he researched the psychology of survival before starting the production of movie to make it accurate and show that things happen deeper in people mentally and not just the outside for instance, people who you’d thing brave and leader like may become cowards while others who wouldn’t see them self as brave become a heroic figure.

He goes on to explains that he took the real ordeal of Andrew Wright when he got stuck in a cave with other divers and added fictional parts to create this film. But also to give the audience a feel of emersion asking them self what they would do in that situation.

Though research in a couple more interviews about this film he went into depth explaining how he wanted the movie to be about the people not animals monsters or anything super natural. The thing your ment to ask yourself while watching “sanctum” is what are they thinking what would i do in that situation and be able to see how human behaviour is focusing on things which give off a deeper meaning then just the terror of monsters but the terror of human instinct of survival.

After being asked were there any discoveries during the making of the film that you can share either in terms of technique, technology or storytelling?

He replied how cameras improve daily, directors seeing what they want to improve and directors of photography and explained how it was vital to the progress and next generation of film, improving cameras or filming equipment.

And says how eventually 3d films will lift the entire market.

He openly encourages the advancements of technology and explained how he needs directors need to adapt to the technology for instance 3D which can produce pieces of art or even cheapen the look of a film if it isn’t used correctly. When James Cameron was asked about 3d Filming and how people think he revolutionised the 3d industry he talked about how each director makes a 3d film differently and how it’s like colour and sound to people everyone has a different colour pallet from which to choose from. He  Also described filming with the advancement of technology like”  it’s like building a race car, racing it and running back to the shop and working with it some more, tinkering with it to improve it ”