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Cloverfield Sneak Peek Clip

chuck colburn said:
NO MORE BARF CAM!

It sucks and just f**ks up movies.
Watch what Ang Lee did on Brokeback Mountain, basically no camera movement at all. Hardly even a pan let alone a rise or tracking shot.
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Except that wouldn't work in a disaster movie that's supposed to be shot on a handycam by some guy from a party.
 
Wow, that's interesting...

Huh.. it seems that my local "virtual videotheque" i already offering this... yummy... :w00t:

Too bad that the creators won't profit from my click.... and from the zillion other clicks that are happening... right now.

But if the movie is good.. I'll watch it in the theater ...

... I promise. :innocent:
 
Lexicon said:
I hope JJ Abrams gets bombed by letters to do a sequel or something. With the audio blurb at the end saying it's still alive, I'm hungry for more!
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Yes, I 'm sure it will take quite a bit of convincing to get them to do a sequel.
 
I'm sure this isn't the end of the Cloverfield experience. I imagine it will continue as an ARG.
 
Ethan Cooper said:
That could have been anything.
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Actually, it couldn't have. Not in the context of the movie. Why would the filmmakers put it in if not to explain the monster's origin- not to mention the fin-like tail which tells us even more about where it came from.
 
I agree...I think there will be plenty of ARG to follow this picture, as some of it has already been going on for a while. Just saw this movie and damn what a ride! I really enjoyed the amateur video concept comboed with million dollar fx! Go see this movie if you like pure chaos. I wish there was more to some of these characters, some of them were kind of empty shells and did not make the movie any better IMO but I enjoyed the picture over all and look forward to speculation that follows. Perhaps there will be a sequal? How much % of the movie was HVX?
 
Everything was HVX except for FX plates. Probably shots like the bridge getting destroyed, the pan up to the building that's toppled. You can tell if you are looking that the shots most likely to be non-HVX have more simple moves or are morphed, cross dissolved, or cut with an original HVX shot.

It looked damn good for being 720p too.
 
I thought the concept was interesting but towards the end I stopped caring about the characters.
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Justin Anderson said:
why?..
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Hmm.

I felt that the characters didn't have too much depth to them (in the later parts of the movie). The later parts of the movie I felt to be somewhat straightforward.
 
I'm with the "That was awesome" party on this one. I saw it last night, and I was pretty amazed at what was achieved with this movie.

Chris you nailed it, this is DEFINITELY a Generation Y movie..and making some quick generalizations from this thread alone it is already apparent to me that a lot of the older members seem to take to the "I hated the handy cam crap"; when you think about it, it makes sense since generation Y was raised on 3D video games.

Cinematography was amazing considering they shot with the HVX; the whole party sequence was definitely all HVX...but I could tell some of the shots were definitely much higher res/cleaner than others. The tunnel scene was probably not HVX for example. A lot of the shots were way too clean and noise free to have been HVX..especially when you consider the style they were shooting and the limitations on lighting. Another thing to note was the extremely long takes, yet the inclusion of BOTH live effects AND CGI seamlessly incorporated. I was impressed to say the least.

Beyond the technical aspects, I personally was very attached to the characters all the way through, which again I think stems from the generational thing. The more I continue to think about the movie, the more I am amazed. I loved how they used the video camera itself as a vehicle for essentially exploring BOTH the relationships of the characters, and techincally as evidence of how "it all went down" as Hud says. The last Ferris wheel shot does sum the movie up, but you really have to pay attention. For those really hung up on this, check out http://www.slusho.jp/ which is actually part of the advertising campaign for the movie (I read this somewhere but I can't remember where). Check out the "History" of the drink, and then things start to make sense if you payed close attention.

This brings me to my final point; marketing. This was really a brilliant campaign if you think about it. I actually consider Cloverfield as the epitome of the internet generation of blockbusters. They successfully defined new parts to the movie process; ambiguous trailer hype, IMDB speculation, ambiguous websites introducing new clues, more speculation, THE MOVIE, and post movie research/forum speculation..which in many cases leads to SEEING THE MOVIE AGAIN.

And lastly, for those who can't stand the ambiguity of the film; I'd think by now that we'd be used to it enough to expect it for a movie like this. I really wasn't surprised at all that there was zero exposition, and I'm completely satisfied that it stayed handy cam style the entire movie. It gave me both a visual and emotional experience which was definitely worth the measly 10 bucks to see (come on guys, I'm not sitting on a RED and a nifty mac pro editing station yet I ain't complaining). Go see it in the theater; if you're open minded and just watch it for what it is (a monster movie seen through the lens of a handycam), then you will no doubt enjoy it and have a good time. Sorry for the length.
 
It was all upresed in post. I've seen DVX footage look like HD after professional upresing- see Iraq in Fragments for an example. In theaters it suspended my disbelief.
 
I have no idea. It was done by the distrib company. I saw an original dv res print early on and then when it got picked up it got upresed and graded and then I saw it again. There was a difference.
 
I'll bet after a professional uprez there was an incredible difference; just today I had some Post magic fun...de-noise with Neat Video (should be called Magic), then batch up-rez with Photozoom pro 2 for amazing quality, THEN apply additional sharpening if desired. I liken it to a much cheaper, indy version of the 35mm IMAX blowup process. The algorithms keep getting better too, so who knows what kind stuff we will be able to do in a few years.
 
PM all the answers. :sorcerer:

I'm interested to hear what everyone thought happened in the last shot... or maybe we just need a new Cloverfield *SPOILERS* thread to openly discuss it.
 
I just saw the Cloverfield trailer.

Looks good.

Very soon or tomorrow you would not need HVX-200, Viper and F23 (all those old fashioned crap camera technology :) ) to shoot this sort of movies.

What you would need to do much cheaper, more comfortable and with the highest quality is RED and Scarlet.
 
I'll always love the HVX, cause it was first of a kind... The first under 10k camera to give possibility for something real...

Then of course comes RED, which gives the possibility for something really real...
 
I am also very impressed that most of this picture (minus fx...which seams like a lot of the picture) was shot on 720 HVX, is this confirmed. The picture quality help up IMO, I did not notice a lot of grain in low light stuff but pretty sure thats what they were going for.

I agree that a RED an Scarlet would replace this production...and I would love to see them in action for the sequel.
 
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