Special Effect

For the special effects portion of this blog, I selected to focus on the movie The Titanic. This movie won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1997. There were several times in the movie where special effects were used. Computers were used to create:

• the digital passengers seen on the ship's deck
• the ship's launch
• the engine room
• the camera fly-bys of the ship
• the transition shot of Jack and Kate at the front of the ship when Kate was learning "how to fly"
• Kate Winslet's iris that was digitally inserted and morphed into Gloria Stuart's eye (when she was the old lady retelling the story) 

Special effects make the impossible possible for films and I find them very interesting, especially in a movie where it is meant to reenact an actual event in history like the sinking of the Titanic.