Low budget vs High budgetAaron Beard

AvatarRelease & CastAvatar was released in a 2009 and is a American science fiction film. It is directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.The Starring cast is Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi, and Sigourney Weaver.CostThe total cost to make and produce this film ending up ending to around $237 million. This allows you to see that it is a very expensive film which is why it is a high budget market and has lead to becoming one of the best science fiction films in the past 5 to 10 years.A Small plotAn ex-marine that is in a wheelchair finds a new life on a different planet which ends up in finding himself fighting for humankind with the planet's people which I a completely different race in the 3D sci-fi film made by award-winning director James Cameron who also made Titanic. The film follows Jake Sully acted by Sam Worthington who is a was previously in the war and gets called to space where he is needed to help the job his brother is doing to try and mine the planet of Pandora. But there is a tribe that lies underneath the home of the Na'vi, a ten-foot-tall, blue-skinned tribe who have been at war with a human army of people. Because of the planet's atmosphere, humans have grown to be half-alien/half-human bodies which they can change and go into this new world and explore it. As one of them already had an Avatar grown for him, he is able to connect with it using the same DNA code and understand their world and what they do.

Paranormal Activity

• The first Paranormal Activity was produced and made for around $15,000, and it ended up making approximately $193 million at the box office.

• This film is a stereotype horror story with ghosts and blood being the main theme. The scares are all in the build-up with tension being created and the fact that what you are imagining is going to be far worse than it actually is. It is a very clever film as it produces and creates good tension and scenes with a very cheap budget.

• This is still a very well known horror film that has been watched by millions of people.

Similarities & Differences

Similarities Differences

1. Very well known/popular films.2. Setting and props is very complex and different to the settings in sci-fi films.3. Both have characters who are not human.4. A lot of different colour used.

1. Paranormal has simple setting and props.2. basic dark colours used.3. paranormal will have an older target audience.