When I first saw movie Avatar on first day of release in Harrow – Vue theatre, I have not had any idea of writing this blog article. My impression was fantastic visual effects and story like a pakka (aka perfect) Hollywood story climax as we expected. Thereafter, my curiosity made me too goggled on Avatar Movie Making. Interestingly I found few similarities which I would like to share with you.
Any sap project need a detailed preparation likewise avatar team done. In 1994, director James Cameron wrote a 114-page scriptment for Avatar. John Cameron said his inspiration was "every single science fiction book I read as a kid", and that he was particularly striving to update the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series. The success of a sap project is based on passion. In creative industry passion leads to success some times. My observation is like avatar direct every project manager needs personnel style and passion.
In August 1996, Cameron announced that after completing Titanic, he would film Avatar, which would make use of "synthetic", or computer-generated, actors. The project would cost $100 million and involve at least six actors in leading roles "who appear to be real but do not exist in the physical world". In June 2005, Cameron was announced to be working on a project tentatively titled "Project 880", concurrently with another project, Battle Angel. By December, Cameron said that he planned to film Battle Angel first for a summer 2007 release, and to film Project 880 for a 2009 release. In February 2006, Cameron said he had switched goals for the two film projects – Project 880 was now scheduled for 2007 and Battle Angel for 2009. He indicated that the release of Project 880 would possibly be delayed until 2008.Later that February, Cameron revealed that Project 880 was "a retooled version of Avatar", a film that he had tried to make years earlier, citing the technological advances in the creation of the computer-generated characters Gollum, King Kong and Davy Jones. Cameron had chosen Avatar over Battle Angel after completing a five-day camera test in the previous year. In December 2006, Cameron described Avatar as "a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years hence [...] an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience [that] aspires to a mythic level of storytelling". Instead of classical or standard project approach sap project managers should approach with Innovation plus creativity means stakeholder confidence.
Cameron's early scriptment for Avatar had circulated on the Internet for years. When the project was re-announced, copies were subsequently removed from websites. From January to April 2006, Cameron worked on the script. As on to today many programme manager or directors or CIO are still in old fashioned thinking assuming that project manager is typical manager to look after people budget facilities report to stake holder etc. Like Cameron worked on the script, how many sap project manager really has capability or ability to look in to technical details or even willing to know about it.
Working with Dr. Paul Frommer, linguist and Director of the Center for Management Communication at USC, he developed a Na'vi language and culture, the indigenous race on Pandora. The language has a vocabulary of about 1000 words, with some 30 having been invented by Cameron. The tongue's phonemes include ejective consonants (such as the "kx" in "skxawng") that are found in the Amharic language of Ethiopia, and the initial "ng" that Cameron may have taken from New Zealand Māori. Just for few minutes of the movie creative industry works hard to mark their stamp. In a sap project, what we used to couple and decouple business process with sap configuration. End result likewise instead of few minutes' tapes (reels) ready to use bespoke solution. If someone in a movie industry consulting various people for making few minutes movie , our everlasting so called best of breed solution do not need consulting ?
Movie Making is an art, SAP project management is not?
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