Avatar was a high budget 2009 American science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It had a total production cost of $237 million and starred Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver. The film follows Jake Sully, a former marine who finds a new life on the alien moon Pandora and ends up fighting alongside an indigenous tribe of humanoid aliens called the Na'vi. In contrast, the film Paranormal Activity had a tiny budget of only $15,000 but went on to make $193 million at the box office. It used tension and imagination to create scares rather than elaborate effects. Both films became very popular franchises despite their differing budgets.

1. Low budget vs High budget
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2. AvatarRelease & Cast
Avatar 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.
Cost
The 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 plot
An 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.