Telling tales: Discuss how either Titanic or The Matrix create the meanings that combine to tell their stories.

The film “Titanic” directed by James Cameron has used many film techniques to create meanings that combine to tell “a fictional story within absolutely rigorous, historically accurate terms.” The accuracy and special effects used within this fictional love story are intended for only one purpose: they are used in order to create the feeling that the audience is actually there on the Titanic in 1912. Many of the techniques used within this extremely successful movie include the plot, the extensive amount of computer graphics and visual effects, characters, costumes, language, camera shots, cinematography techniques and sounds effects used within the film as well as themes that are obvious.

Firstly, the plot of the movie is based on a true story of the R.M.S. Titanic, which was deemed “unsinkable” but unfortunately had hit an iceberg in April 1912 during its voyage to America and sank to the bottom of the ocean carrying one thousand five hundred people to their deaths. Th...