“Clover files” is a DV to present the disaster of the film, at the same time, the film is the film content from the screen liberation, with a variety of means to the fictional content of the film to the Internet for the authenticity of the original work, but also in the operational level and theoretical level of the film brought new thinking.While the story is nothing new, its value is in two other very important ways.First, this film USES DV documentary means to show the disaster, is a disaster film attempt and breakthrough.The second is its originality.
It separates the whole event that should be presented in the film from the film, and makes the event real by means of Internet text, image and video.Director matt reeves said: “what appealed to me about this film was that it was written in a very personal way, despite having such powerful images.
As the characters step into the camera, the emotion comes out, so my real challenge is to find a way to wrap some extraordinary elements in a ridiculous way, which is the attack of the monster, and to deal with the development of the whole story in a completely real way.”Cloverfield” this movie a new presentation benefit from the development of network technology, as McLuhan points out “the medium is the message”, this movie can be integrated with the network not only brings new contents and forms, and the structure of the it for the whole of art will also have a profound impact, because this is a reflection of a “new media art”.”Cloverfield”.
Therefore, the film itself is its real significance, it will be a fictional movie content moved into the real space, almost completely true in some way – news and official website, blog, a huge mass of data link, and so on to fiction actualized, on the way to the pursuit of true, the film is a well-meaning, also provides a brand new age of the Internet movie presentation.
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