![]() Unlike most other video editing apps, you don’t work with layers here. So instead, they just see all the clips one after the other, as simple blocks to more around or even delete. The way Photos does it is meant to simplify the process for people who may have little to no experience with the video editing concept. More professional editors display footage based on their duration. Each one is represented by a rectangular thumbnail of the same size, irrespective of its length. The lower section is your Storyboard, where you see all the clips that have been added to your project. You see all the clips present in your Project Library top left, with an option to add additional ones should you need to. ![]() Special Effects: Absolutely first rate.Avatar justifies its bloated budget of being billed as the most expensive Hollywood film at approximately $500 million.Or you could choose a more hands-on approach with full control over the editing process (Image credit: Microsoft) Manual interface Story: Cameron's story is both timely and topical with a strong anti-war statement finely blended with the evergreen romance between a human and an alien.ĭialogue: Simple, straight, yet hard-hitting, some of the lines are laced with humour too. Kudos to Mauro Fiore for this spledid tribute to Mother Nature. Music: James Horner composes a fine music score that has a fusion blend of both Oriental and the Occidental notes.Ĭinematography: Pandora is a visual paradise, with each fern, each dandelion etched out in detail. The film also marks the return of Sigourney Weaver in another tryst with aliens. Both Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana sculpt a warm love story as the blue-skinned human avtar and Na'vi woman. Performances: Surprisingly, there are no big names in Cameron's cast, but the characters are all credible and attention-grabbing. Add to this the blue-skinned, monkey-tailed, god-like Na'vi race and the linkages could be endless. For Indophiles and Indian philosophy enthusiasts, Avatar is a whole treatise on Indianism, from the very word `Avatar' itself. And the only way the human species can do it is by abdicating its destructive tendencies. Can't blame him really, specially since his boss, Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) is a mean, macabre, war-mongerer who treats every non-American as ``a fly-bitten savage, living on trees.''Īvatar is indeed a complete cinematic experience, with cinematographer Mauro Fiore, music director James Horner and special effects maestro Joe Letteri joining hands with director/screenwriter James Cameron to create a strong and visually-stirring plea to save the world, before it is too late. It doesn't take long before Jake falls in love with the beautiful Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), the daughter of the Na'vi chief, and turns rogue on his own people. Enter, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic marine, who is promised a pair of legs for betraying the pacifists of Pandora. But before they send their daisy-cutters and rocket launchers, they send in humans who have been transformed into Na'vi look-a-likes (they call them avatars) to infiltrate the peace-loving race and learn about their weaknesses and strengths. They want to send in their troops to tame the indigenous Na'vi people, before extracting the minerals. In this futuristic world, the US Armed Forces discover a source of priceless minerals in Pandora, a distant moon orbiting a star. That is the only way you justify taking the stuff away from them!'' Stuff? Minerals, here. For the filmmaker openly indicts America for its post 9/11 expansionist policies and clearly states: ``when people are sitting on shit that you want, you make them your enemies. Mercifully, the film isn't visual extravaganza alone it has a meaningful story too that could end up making this magnum opus a modern-day parable for pacifists, climatologists, humanists, globalists. Truly, Cameron's vision of Pandora is pure art, with its tall, wide-eyed, slender, blue Na'vi people, it's post-modern creatures and its verdant greens.īut more than all this, it is Cameron's cry against war and violence that makes Avatar an eloquent testimonial to the present. On the one hand, it's the sheer iridescence of the canvas and the never-before contours of the creatures, the flora, the fauna flying across the screen that makes you marvel at how computers can augment creativity on the other, it is the umpteen times you jump back to avoid the arrows, the guns or slide away from the floating dandelions and fierce raptors that leaves you completely mesmerised with this brand new cinematic experience.
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