Have you ever wondered how the Titanic was made? Today I will discuss the challenges the cast and crew had to go through in order to achieve this wonderful film. To begin with, the films' budget is $200 million and it gained $2.187 billion dollars at the box office. The film is 195 minutes long or 3 hours and 15 minutes long. Titanic was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning 11 of those 14.
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So how they started the beginning of the film and the shots of the ship underwater was by creating a smaller version of the Titanic to best of the crews knowledge of how the ship looked like. They rehearsed how they were going to shoot the scenes of the inside of the Titanic. They had to find a way to use the technology that they had at that time (1997) because they went two miles down into the ocean and the pressure of the water is what made everything critical. The first sunken ship scenes in the film are the actual Titanic and nobody had done that before. Of course they did create several sets to film some of the things that couldn't come out perfectly clear. They photographed several parts of the actual Titanic and took it as an inspiration to build other sets and props for the movie and they tried to make as realistic as possible.
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The crew did use a lot of CGI for many of the scenes. Some examples are the moving water, the sailing ship, the people walking in the boats, and the ship sinking. The literally built the Titanic ship to its' full size and width, however, they only built half of it. Building a set and prop this big costs a lot of money and time. So they did do some of the filming on the ship to give it a more realistic feel to what was happening but the majority of the film uses a really small model of the ship. For instance, the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio screams "I'm the king of the world" was filmed in a separate set that was a green model of the ships nose and with green screen on the back. Then they placed Leo on the animated version of the small Titanic model, added some , and some birds in the sky, and voila there is that wonderful scene. On a separate side, Cameron had the crew built realistic sets of what it was like inside the ship. The beautiful staircase where Jack stretches out his hand to Rose was built by hand. The walls, the ceiling, the pictures and ornaments in the back, every little detail was built by hand and put there to honor the real one. In the dining room the cutlery had to be searched for because it had to have the right design, the glass ware had to be authentic of that era, the tableware and the carpet was all authentic. For the sinking scenes, Cameron had the big titanic ship prop actually sink. That was devastating! Such a wonderful and big ship and they just sunk it. for several of the scenes they created different sets of the sinking ship that could tilt and make the people fall off.
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The last thing that took a lot of work was the costume. It was all about research research research and more research! The costume designer had to look and buy for authentic 1912 attire for both men and women. They searched from the underwear, to the stockings, to the garter, and jewelry. They acquired an entire collection that belonged to one woman from that time. Every woman from the film including the extras in the back where given a beautiful dress from that time, of course, that meant that every woman had to wear a corset. They actually had a backstage corset users resting chair for the women because the corset of that time was very restricting therefore they needed help.
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