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musicismygas
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Also, another question... Was Matt Reeves the same director who did the chuai destruction videos? And was the same effects studios involved in making all the viral videos? how about jamie's videos? Did Matt Reeves and JJ abrams play an active role in their production?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:04 pm
kosmopol
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The questions are good.
I also wanna know about it.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:35 pm
guerra001
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I assume that they were not made by Reeves, and made by the marketing company...but I have no clue and would also like to know the answers to that
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:12 pm
reagan88
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Most likely Matt Reeves did not direct the Jamie vids or the chuai stuff. That stuff is normally assigned to a special unit. During production it is common to have an "A unit" shooting principle photography (shots involving the main actors and/or action) and a "B unit" shooting ancillary stuff. The number of production units depends on the specific project (and budget). They must have assigned a production unit for the Jamie vids and another for the chuai destruction. They may have also used a third unit to produce the different news segments.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:00 am
musicismygas
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reagan88 wrote:
Most likely Matt Reeves did not direct the Jamie vids or the chuai stuff. That stuff is normally assigned to a special unit. During production it is common to have an "A unit" shooting principle photography (shots involving the main actors and/or action) and a "B unit" shooting ancillary stuff. The number of production units depends on the specific project (and budget). They must have assigned a production unit for the Jamie vids and another for the chuai destruction. They may have also used a third unit to produce the different news segments.
That makes sense. I just thought that the chuau destruction news reports were very well done (movie quality) in terms of the cgi and stuff. Seems like the whole cloverfield crew worked pretty damn hard for all this. I really do hope that another viral campaign will emerge for the DVD release. Now that's something to look forward to.
Its not like they're just gonna flash the advertisement on TV like the usual "now on DVD" TV commercials are. That'd be pretty lame. Hopefully they do something as unique as the marketing for the movie.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:37 am
musicismygas
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and maybe... MAYBE... when the cloverfield toy is shipped to us this september some sort of hidden clue or memo would be included in the package. Now THAT is another thing to look forward to. What do you guys think?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:00 am
guerra001
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musicismygas wrote:
and maybe... MAYBE... when the cloverfield toy is shipped to us this september some sort of hidden clue or memo would be included in the package. Now THAT is another thing to look forward to. What do you guys think?
I think it would be cool as hell...although judging by the fast release dates of most movies on dvd nowadays, unless they are planning on making this go on for awhile, its seemsthat it would surpasss the dvd release date and they would be putting clues past what could be the end of the VMC
But its JJs company so it could happen...
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:40 am
TP516
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reagan88 wrote:
Most likely Matt Reeves did not direct the Jamie vids or the chuai stuff. That stuff is normally assigned to a special unit. During production it is common to have an "A unit" shooting principle photography (shots involving the main actors and/or action) and a "B unit" shooting ancillary stuff. The number of production units depends on the specific project (and budget). They must have assigned a production unit for the Jamie vids and another for the chuai destruction. They may have also used a third unit to produce the different news segments.
while you mkae sense, it doesn't make sense for this.
they would not have an active unit for this.
it would be the Marketing Department... a department certaintly capable of using CGI and directing actors in fake videos.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:36 pm
reagan88
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TP516 wrote:
reagan88 wrote:
Most likely Matt Reeves did not direct the Jamie vids or the chuai stuff. That stuff is normally assigned to a special unit. During production it is common to have an "A unit" shooting principle photography (shots involving the main actors and/or action) and a "B unit" shooting ancillary stuff. The number of production units depends on the specific project (and budget). They must have assigned a production unit for the Jamie vids and another for the chuai destruction. They may have also used a third unit to produce the different news segments.
while you mkae sense, it doesn't make sense for this.
they would not have an active unit for this.
it would be the Marketing Department... a department certaintly capable of using CGI and directing actors in fake videos.
I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all...cuz I am not. I am wrong way more than I am right...believe me. But it does not make sense to me to put creative control (pertaining to storyline) in the hands of a non-production department. Using separate production units is common practice. I am not sure why they would "farm out" content to another department. But who knows...you may be right. I have just never heard of that happening before.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:48 pm
musicismygas
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if neither matt or jj were involved in the creation of these how is it possible to have another unit produce such film-quality videos?
will we ever get to know who are behind this whole ARG thing in the future? I really do hope everything would be revealed in the credits including the actors (esp. jamie lascano)
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:30 am
musicismygas
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pardon me for reviving this thread but why do you think are they keeping the ARG credits a "secret" even if almost everything about the movie has been revealed?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:48 pm
K1Ng5p4d3
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musicismygas wrote:
and maybe... MAYBE... when the cloverfield toy is shipped to us this september some sort of hidden clue or memo would be included in the package. Now THAT is another thing to look forward to. What do you guys think?
I kinda think that the toy wont include anything special. Its being distributed by HASBRO, a mainstream toy company, While Slusho shirts and merch were being distributed by um....fuck i cant remember the name of the company now, but its a small distribution center that JJ n Reeves probably specifically picked out so that they could play these little games with us in the packaging. If Hasbro includes something with the toy, it will probably be something like a comic strip on the back of the box or something along those lines.
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:24 pm
Chris a Clef
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K1Ng5p4d3 wrote:
musicismygas wrote:
and maybe... MAYBE... when the cloverfield toy is shipped to us this september some sort of hidden clue or memo would be included in the package. Now THAT is another thing to look forward to. What do you guys think?
I kinda think that the toy wont include anything special. Its being distributed by HASBRO, a mainstream toy company, While Slusho shirts and merch were being distributed by um....fuck i cant remember the name of the company now, but its a small distribution center that JJ n Reeves probably specifically picked out so that they could play these little games with us in the packaging. If Hasbro includes something with the toy, it will probably be something like a comic strip on the back of the box or something along those lines.
Even if it had a comic it could have some clues in it
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:58 pm
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Re: Also, another question...
musicismygas wrote:
Was Matt Reeves the same director who did the chuai destruction videos? And was the same effects studios involved in making all the viral videos? how about jamie's videos? Did Matt Reeves and JJ abrams play an active role in their production?
What is this, Yahoo Answers? If so where are the fake questions that give you a rise?
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:13 pm
IncidentCloverfield
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Baronoff and Bad Robot... He's the one behind it... check this:
http://adage.com/article?article_id=125679
It sounds like after JJ moved to bigger things he's running the show at bad robot... So Dave? when is there going to be more clover? If not soon we will be falling off Unforums back and be in hot pursuit like the hundreds of parasites... waaa waaa waaa!
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:15 am
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