It could be a cinematic atrocity of biblical proportions, and I'd
STILL want it to do better box office than Meet The Spartans, Rambo
and 27 Dresses. But alas crap, like cream, always rises to the top...
Chris
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That said, I am curious about CLOVERFIELD and do hope that it's good.
If only because I've always loved giant monster movies but have always
secretly wished for one that had some legitimate scares...
FWIW, Wil Wheaton has a good review of CLOVERFIELD on his blog. Gives it an
enthusiastic
Kind of doesn't matter... but on the battery front... personally, when
I'm not using the camera, when I'm done taping something, I instantly
turn it off... and don't most cameras have an auto-off after a couple
minutes? The battery wouldn't have to LAST seven hours, persay...
Susan
Challenge for 2008: To have a thread this long about a videoblog ;)
Did see a mainstream media article about the film causing vertigo in some
people, and
that cinemas are putting up warning signs.
Cheers
Steve Elbows
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i can't help thinking about these things. I know it's just supposed
to be entertaining and it never pays to over analyze a movie like this
but in this case wasn't the whole movie just a gimmick anyway? wasn't
the whole thing just about how clever the filmmakers thought they were
being? so if
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but forget all of that. if they were so clever, how did they think
they could get away with making a movie that supplants a plot for a
gimmick. that's never a good idea.
A horror movie doesn't need a plot in
it never pays to over analyze a movie like this
but i'll offer up a counter perspective.
why did the the characters go into
an electronics store and not consider grabbing a couple extra tapes
and batteries?
the electronics store scene came from one characters sole focus to get his
phone
I think Cloverfield does take things beyond the Blair Witch Project
and does a great job of fictional organic Home Video story telling.
The filmmakers have set some ground rules for themselves and they
stick to those ground rules. Everything that happens on that tape
from a storytelling
I appreciate the points that you are making. I do think that this
home movie style can influence and inspire in some interesting ways.
I do however have to disagree on some points.
Cloverfield has the appearance of being low budget with all in
camera editing but of course that was not the case
The battery in the camera is not an issue. My Digital 8 camera circa
1999 has an 8 hour battery. I once took it to New Orleans and shot
nearly 4 hours of footage over a 3 day period without recharging.
- Verdi
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From: Michael Verdi
The battery in the camera is not an issue. My Digital 8 camera circa
1999 has an 8 hour battery. I once took it to New Orleans and shot
nearly 4 hours of footage over a 3 day period without recharging.
Besides .. if it was a memory card
This one (already played at Tribecca Film Festival) is due out next month.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010271/
;)
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From: Bill Cammack
I guess that's possible if the camera was in some sort of extended
play (read: lower quality) mode, since tapes are 60 minutes long to
begin with, and 40 minutes if you're recording DVcam instead of miniDV.
My mini-DV records 60 min on standard
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So was there anything in this movie that had progressed further than
Blair Witch style,
reflecting the areas of progress in video over the last decade or so?
I've not seen it, but I imagine the progress was simply
I have read that the concept of the movie's TRT is that the entire
movie lasts 80 minutes, no longer than a tape would in the camera.
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I didn't see the movie, but based on the synopsis in the wiki, it
would have had to
I guess that's possible if the camera was in some sort of extended
play (read: lower quality) mode, since tapes are 60 minutes long to
begin with, and 40 minutes if you're recording DVcam instead of miniDV.
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I have read
Maybe someone should make a film with a load missing from the end 'cos the tape
ran
out' and see if anybody roits in the cinemas ;)
So was there anything in this movie that had progressed further than Blair
Witch style,
reflecting the areas of progress in video over the last decade or so? not
Agreed. Some Cloverfield thoughts of my own.
http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/seeing-cloverfield.html
http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/seeing-cloverfield.html
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I just got back from the movies. I
They refer to tape in the film, I think, because they use the device
of having taped over previously recorded video. That wouldn't happen
with a disc based camera. That being said, some of it was shot with
the panasonic hvx200 but most was shot with the Sony CineAlta F23
which is not a consumer
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They refer to tape in the film, I think, because they use the device
of having taped over previously recorded video. That wouldn't happen
with a disc based camera. That being said, some of it was shot with
the panasonic hvx200 but most was
Heh, I'm more a horror geek than a tech geek, so this is a camera
that records video is all the explanation I need. :)
Chris
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I didn't get the impression that
I didn't see the movie, but based on the synopsis in the wiki, it
would have had to have been tape. That's the only way that they would
have had scenes from a previous recording.
Had it been disk-based or card-based, that would not have happened
because there's no recording over disk files.
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