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[spec] Decrypting the Trailer
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Patrick Star
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 		Re: [spec] Decrypting the Trailer
jjbutts wrote:
I am an editor who specializes in movie trailers. And seeing as how you are all searching for answers, I thought I might make a suggestion.

The Cloverfield trailer is filled with flash frames of various motion graphics elements made to look like electrical interference or camera glitches. All of these elements were created in a program like After Effects, and are obviously not actual camera malfunctions. In my career, I have spent an incalculable number of hours creating such elements, and they are almost ALWAYS created using source footage from the movie. To me, this would seem to be a logical place to hide clues...or to look for them.

Many of the images that flash on the screen show an incredible amount of interlacing artifacts that, in truth, look nothing like the camera glitches they are meant to represent. I would not be surprised if these artifacts were something along the lines of two or three important images who's interlaced fields have been mixed to create the glitch effect.

Also, there is a strange interference that comes up several times (ie, 0:45-0:46 in the trailer on Apple.com). Later in the trailer, these same graphics (or similar graphics) flash on the screen a couple of times before revealing the name JJ Abrams, or other on-screen text. Its possible that these markings have meaning beyond the implication that the camera is being pushed to its physical limits.

I'm a busy guy, so I don't have the time to figure it out, but if anyone out there feels so inclined, I suspect that there is something there. If there is, cool. If not, sorry. Get a job.


Thanks for the re-direct PM.

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 		rob and beth...
I havent seen this in any thread so if its been discussed let me know... in this picture that im attaching i think we see beth's silloute right next to rob on the right... no significance/hidden message... i just wanna know what ppl think about it... i've been looking at the trailer frame by frame and came across this... thoughts? Smile
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 		Re: rob and beth...
JFTeran wrote:
I havent seen this in any thread so if its been discussed let me know... in this picture that im attaching i think we see beth's silloute right next to rob on the right... no significance/hidden message... i just wanna know what ppl think about it... i've been looking at the trailer frame by frame and came across this... thoughts? Smile

A timestamp would be helpful for comparison.
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 		Re: rob and beth...
Euchre wrote:
JFTeran wrote:
I havent seen this in any thread so if its been discussed let me know... in this picture that im attaching i think we see beth's silloute right next to rob on the right... no significance/hidden message... i just wanna know what ppl think about it... i've been looking at the trailer frame by frame and came across this... thoughts? Smile

A timestamp would be helpful for comparison.


Sorry dude... it's at 00:35 on the apple trailer... right before he says my name is robert hawkins...

edit to add: i think that was the whole central park scene that nooneimportant caught... probably the last scene in the movie... idk

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 		That just looks like Beth's head turned away to me.

Just a point of trivia, Rob is carrying a Nokia N76 phone.
It's a measly $500 for that phone.
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reagan88 wrote:
Wow Animaniac. You really do know this project. I am just sort of grabbing what is out there and taking a brief look at it. You are suggesting actually reorganizing everything. I wish I had the time...that would be very cool to see.


Sorry, when you said you put them in sequence I assumed you where trying to put the scenes in chonological order.

That would be interesting to see, wish I had the software for it.

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 		i just wanted to say that the girl "exploding", looks like her being turned and dragged to me.

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 		New Version of Vid
Someone suggested putting the pics from 1-18-08.com onto the timeline vid. Let me know where you guys think they should go and I will do it. Until then I did add one pic. You can see it here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9RAXD-6sVc

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 		Clever idea with the one pic, but you put Rob in as Hud. Hud is holding the camera we are seeing the footage from way across the room. Don't think that's where that pic came from, sorry.
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 		thats a good timeline.

i would like the new trailer resorted, as to what we think the order goes, because its all out of order in my view.

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keeno_82uk wrote:
thats a good timeline.

i would like the new trailer resorted, as to what we think the order goes, because its all out of order in my view.


OK I've spent far too long analysing this, but here's a map with the events that happen downtown. I'm having trouble working out the order of them.


And here's where they see the Hansom cab, it's just before they see the ruined Time Warner Centre near Central Park. I think Beth is with them, so it seems to be after the biohazard bit?


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 		in the first map, the party would have to be somewhere near where the head stops surely, as when they exit the building they are on the same street as the head is thrown down not a couple of streets away

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 		The trailer is cut to look like that, but there's a cut where all the sound changes, I think they're leaving a different building. Also, there would be smoke and damage everywhere from the fireballs, and there's no damage in that area at all. I think they see the burning car and burning houses before they reach Broadway, which is where the head lands.

The reason I've placed the party area there is because it's where the 4 main buildings line up on the horizon to match the explosion scene. It could just be a continuity problem though...

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