While I rarely go out to the movies (because of my awesome home theatre setup), I did see Cloverfield in the theatre. Like many others, I wasn’t a fan of the extreme shaky-cam which literally left me nauseous. I need to start with my opinion on the camera shake choice – because it’s relevant to what’s happening with the bonus features: I feel that they could have toned down the amateur-home-video-shake and still conveyed the cinéma-vérité “real found footage” feeling. I loved the idea of the movie and was impressed with the execution, but hated the over the top shaky-camera work. It made the movie very difficult to watch and therefore less fun. However, it was an artistic choice on the part of the filmmakers. Whether or not I agree with it’s necessity and/or effectiveness – it was technically correct. It was their choice. And even though I found that choice very annoying, I still looked forward to getting the movie on Blu-ray to get more info about the cloverfield mythology and see all the bonus features.
Well, the bonus features are harder to watch than the movie – and this time it was NOT an artistic choice…
Advent Calendar’s are a nice way to count down to Christmas. Here’s a really cool one at the Boston Globe’s Big Picture site. You’ll have to check in there each day as a new picture is added daily. Enjoy!
Enjoy your turkey day this year. I’ll be taking a few days off from blogging to eat, put up the Christmas Tree, eat, spend a few days with my family…. …and try to finish up my iPhone app.
Here’s my question of the day: I have a popcorn hour in my home theatre, which works ok. But it doesn’t have a slick user interface. I also need to get some kind of media player for my daughter’s room. She can’t read yet – so that one has to have an interface where she can pick through pictures of shows. Before anyone gets set off by the idea of a 3 year old having video on demand in her room, let me add that I’m an involved parent and can set restrictions and all that.. blah-blah-blah. But on Saturday morning when I want to sleep in it’s golden. (Don’t judge!) Read… »
I’ve been so busy lately that I almost forgot that today is November 13th – the day of the big RED Digital Cinema announcement regarding the new Scarlet and Epic cameras. Not to be too much of a fan boy, but I have been waiting for this for a while. Scarlet had been very high on my list since I “saw it” at NAB. When you look at what’s out there, you can’t beat a 3k camera for $3k. Then mid September they announced that Scarlet was basically going to be scrapped and redesigned. While no one knew exactly what that meant, I’ve been holding out hope that the specs will be even better. I wanted to get in on the first batch of orders. But this announcement changes everything! It’s bigger than anyone imagined.
A few hours before the announcement Jim Jannard “leaked” a few renders of the new design. In case you haven’t been following, Jim had been in the press lately raving about how huge this announcement is going to be – taking some jabs for his enthusiasm along the way. However, from the early pictures I could tell that his level of excitement was totally warranted. Now that I’ve seen the announcement (a few hours early) – I know what he was so excited about… Read… »
While I rarely go out to the movies (because of my awesome home theatre setup), I did see Cloverfield in the theatre. Like many others, I wasn’t a fan of the extreme shaky-cam which literally left me nauseous. I need to start with my opinion on the camera shake choice – because it’s relevant to what’s happening with the bonus features: I feel that they could have toned down the amateur-home-video-shake and still conveyed the cinéma-vérité “real found footage” feeling. I loved the idea of the movie and was impressed with the execution, but hated the over the top shaky-camera work. It made the movie very difficult to watch and therefore less fun. However, it was an artistic choice on the part of the filmmakers. Whether or not I agree with it’s necessity and/or effectiveness – it was technically correct. It was their choice. And even though I found that choice very annoying, I still looked forward to getting the movie on Blu-ray to get more info about the cloverfield mythology and see all the bonus features.
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