Cloverfield (JJ Abrams, viral marketing)

[sylvianorth]

Na, what bugged me was your bird is really annoying and insipid and seriously noone would go back for her cos she's terminally dull

failing that I'm stuck with the image of the exploding girl, I hate it

[Shannow]

Also the fact that they kept referring to it as a tape when it says at the start 'SD memory card'

[¡Punk!]

Originally Posted by Shannow

The biggest one for me being 'what fucking size memory card did he have in that camera!?'

They only film for about an hour and a half. It's feasible.

[sylvianorth]

Yeah

it might just be to account for gaps in the story, but the timeline at the bottom fo the screen disappears after ten minutes or so, and the timelinme jumoing between both films makes no sense. I don't think its meant to, i think its meant to be a different format.


Btw, I cant see anything in this

YouTube - Cloverfield object dropping in water

[sylvianorth]

FAO Shannow, from IMDB boards

D or Video Tape - I actually do not know how to answer this. Based on the other amazing functions of the camera, we can assume it's a fictitious model. Therefore, we can assume it probably reads/records using both SD and Video Tape. The SD probably recorded the forward and backward activity of the Video Tape as one progressive product. Thus, playing the SD forward will show you the movie as it appears to us at the theater.
The battery life did NOT last 7 hours. Hud ONLY recorded what we saw in theaters. It is meant to be shown in its raw form.

[¡Punk!]

Also for Brian (from IMDb)It doesn't. The camera is turned on and off many times throughout the night (a seven-hour period), which preserves the battery life for a cumulative recording time of about 74 minutes. This is well within the reach of a consumer digital camcorder. However, there is the larger question of finding a camera which can record 74 minutes of footage of the movie's quality, and can store 74 minutes of that footage on an SD card (as noted in the movie's opening title card).

Few, if any, consumer cameras can record footage which looks like the movie itself. The movie was shot on high-quality HD video cameras, either cinematic cameras or professional handheld cameras (e.g. the HVX-200 camera mentioned above) which give conspicuously high-quality results. The cinematic cameras used to film the movie record on film, disks, or non-SD memory cards. The handheld camera records on either P2 cards (which are not SD cards and also do not allow someone to "record over" footage as seen on the film, and are limited in their capacity) or MiniDV tapes (which provide the capacity and overwriting ability seen in the film but also are not SD cards). The audio quality is also (although authentically degraded) not of a quality expected of a consumer camera.

The camera used in the film is of no specific model. It is probably not the HVX-200 used in filming, as such a camera could not be carried around as easily and used one-handed as seen in the movie. Few consumer or prosumer digital cameras include the active near-IR night vision mode seen in the movie. A number of cameras use SD or cosmetically identical SDHC cards, and can record in a high-definition format for around 100 minutes, but do not meet the video quality requirements of the movie itself.

In summary, the camera's battery life is consistent with consumer digital camcorders in general. The camera's ability to record such high-quality footage for such a time must be chalked up to dramatic license.

[MarkMono]

Here, those last two sentences blatantly contradict each other.

[Stew]

Originally Posted by sylvianorth

Btw, I cant see anything in this
YouTube - Cloverfield object dropping in water

There is a blurred object that strikes the water behind the ship/boat/yacht near the horizon on the right side of the screen, there is a little plume of water that goes up and that's it.

Originally Posted by Shannow

The biggest one for me being 'what fucking size memory card did he have in that camera!?'

Originally Posted by Shannow

Also the fact that they kept referring to it as a tape when it says at the start 'SD memory card'

What about the monster? That was pretty unrealistic that there was this big monster rampaging in New York, eh!

[Zippy]

Saw it on Friday night, I'm still not sure whether I liked it or not and by the stunned silence in the cinema at the end I think 90% of the other folk there felt the same.

[Bunnylingus]

Quite good actually.

And I hate anything with monsters in it. Thought that they let you know a fair bit about the characters in a short space of time.

[¡Punk!]

Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

Quite good actually.

And I hate anything with monsters in it. Thought that they let you know a fair bit about the characters in a short space of time.

Hud's an idiot
The love interest is flaky
The main guy's a dickless wonder
The hot girl's a bitch
The black lassie's there because she's black

Only Hud seemed like a real person

[Potatojunkie]

Originally Posted by Shannow

Also the fact that they kept referring to it as a tape when it says at the start 'SD memory card'

It said 'Digital SD Card', which made me want to hit something.

[sylvianorth]

Originally Posted by Stew

There is a blurred object that strikes the water behind the ship/boat/yacht near the horizon on the right side of the screen, there is a little plume of water that goes up and that's it.

Still can't see it, whatever.

[Stew]

Originally Posted by sylvianorth

Still can't see it, whatever.

Through the the viral marketing, Taragutu's site states that one of their satellites fell out of orbit and was lost. Is this what woke up the monster from its dormant state?

I've circled the bit to watch and the splash & boat:


Oh, there was a manga comic released:
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/tachiyomi/comic/cloverfield/

It's in languages foreign to these shores, but thankfully I found translated versions into English, so see if this helps clear anything up for anyone:
http://merzmensch.blogspot.com/2008/...eld-manga.html

[Joe Spinebuster]

So hold on... You guys are slowly unearthing factual inconsistencies which are revealing that MAYBE this film ISN'T REAL...? Good Lord, upon examination of these facts you know I think you may be right!