Watching a movie is a story and knowing how it was made is another story

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2012)

After I have done my research about the Titanic all I can say is watching a movie is a story and knowing how it was made and the effort, ideas, techniques, and technologies that was involved in making the movie is completely another story.
I was amazed when I read that in order for James Cameron to shoot the scene of the real Titanic under the water he built a miniature that replicates how the ship looks like under the water. The reason the miniature was built was to guide James Cameron while shooting under the water even though some scenes of the miniature was used in the film. Since shooting the real Titanic was done using a submarine, it was hard for James Cameron to move the cameras to get the angles he wanted and it required to move the submarine in ways that it was not capable of doing. So they had to attach movable cameras to the body of the submarine which in turn reduced the total available shooting time because of the pressure on the cameras. So, they had to train everybody who was involved in this shot including the submarine operators using the miniature to utilize the shooting time under the ocean.