in the 1997 movie the titanic, was the ship used in the movie a new built replica or was it trick photography?

Answer 1

They built half a ship for it, and the rest was trick photography.
It is amazing what they can do now!

Answer 2

It was done with three quarter sized half ship, "bits" and models of different sizes (I have memories of like a metre long ship) Okay, they had a half ship - lengthwise so they made the entire left or right side at 3/4 the size. Because they made only half the ship they sometime had to shoot it in "reverse". For example the boarding scene, the writing on all the clothing and cars was backwards and then they reversed the film. Parts of the ship was made so the front section with the "flying" and the "King of the World" was a part. he back end where they climbed up to during the sinking was a part on a hydraulics system that could go from flat to like a 45 degree angle... There also models some of which were shot and others like the sunken model (of the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean) which were used for practice so when they went down in the submersibles they knew what to get and didn't waste time and film...

Answer 3

Most of the decor on the ship - from the carpet to the chandeliers - was reconstructed by, or under the supervision of, the original companies which furnished the Titanic.
The footage of the Titanic's remains on the sea floor are real.
The "full-size" ship exterior set was constructed in a tank on a beach south of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. The number of some repeated components (such as windows) was reduced, and other parts (such as the funnels and lifeboats) were built at 90% scale to produce the correct visual appearance. The set was oriented to face into the prevailing wind so that the smoke from the funnels would blow the right way.
Only the starboard side of the exterior set was completed. In the scenes portraying the ship at the Southampton dock, all shots were reversed to give the appearance of the port side of the ship, as it was actually docked in 1912. This required the painstaking construction of reversed costumes and signage to complete the illusion, which was achieved by reversing the image in post-production. One cast member joked, "I wasn't dyslexic before starting this show. I am now."
After filming, the remains of the full-size set were sold as scrap metal

Answer 4

A lot of it was based on a computer model and many of the shots of the ship, even those with people strolling around was all computer animation. I do computer animation myself and I know for a fact that some of it was done using LightWave 3D.

Some of the shots were done using scaled-down set constructions. So there was a little bit of everthing in that movie.. The same was done in the movie "Pearl Harbor".

Answer 5

some was just half the ship but they also built a small scale model of the ship n used camera tricks

Answer 6

Half a Ship is Correct. They did the same in Pearl Harbor for the USS Oklahoma.

Answer 7

Mostly the large shots were of minatures not sure of the other