So i did a Spanish movie called Rec and is Co-Directed By Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. This movie is similar in some ways to Cloverfield and in some ways to alot of other zombie movies. And yes it is a spanish Zombie movie. this movie was not the greatest of movies but there are still things i can talk about, such as the way the movie was shot, lighting, tha camera angles and how that affected the whole “movie experience”. The movie is about a news team 1 reporter girl and her cameraman who visit a local fire dept. and basically record and talk about all that goes on in a firehouse. On a “routine” call to an Apt. building where someone called becasue they heard screams, the crew and tha firefighters find more then they could ever had expected, Zombies!
One of the big things about the movie that relates it alot to Cloverfield is the way the movie is shot. it isnt shot like most movies it was shot… like cloverfield 1st person, from the eyes of the camera man that was in the news crew. One of the benefits to shooting a zombie movie like this is that you cant see alot you can only see what the camera can see so your vision is restricted so you dont really know what to expect next.
One of the things i didnt like about the movie was that it was a very predictable movie. the way they angled the camera or the kind of info they gave you you could kind of make out what was either going to happen or figure somwthing out before the movie even told you which kind of ruined the movie. Oh and the reporter lady was HELLA ANNOYING! i just kep thinking damn why wont SHE die. But she is the main character, we know this b/c she starts of as the only one on the shot in the beginning of the movie.
The movies storyline was like most zombie movies; buncha zombies eating hella people, but there were some interesting twists to it. lighting was a big part of the movie to because whenever they first showed a zombie the lighting was dark and always covered the face of the zombie. the acting in the movie was pretty good though. it was pretty believable and for a couple scenes made me feel how they felt. At one point, i wanted to scream “RUUUNN SHEE GON EAT YOOOUUUUU!!!”.
July 25, 2008 at 4:35 pm
haha i like your little plot summary paragraph, it hella sounds like one you would hear in a commercial, or read on the back of a dvd cover!! but anyways, luckily i didn’t see this movie although weiland was like oh my god watch it. but i did see cloverfield, and i’m glad you could relate it to something that we’ve probably all seen in the sense of the camera angles. i think in a movie like this, it’s key to have camera angles like that because like you said you can’t see much, so you don’t know whats up. it gives you a sense of disillusion which is cool. the fact that it’s a foreign movie might be why it’s so predictable beacuse they have different styles. i remember everytime i watched an italian movie in class, it was always predictable, but still good!!
July 25, 2008 at 5:50 pm
First of all i would like to say that you are a dork. But besides that, you hella contradicted yourself. First you go from talking about how the way it was shot, you dont know what to expect.m Then you go right into how predictable the movie was. Overall i thought this was a good post, and since i watched this entire movie with you i think you did a great job seeing things that i didnt see throughout the movie. I especially didnt notice the lighting.
July 25, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Best Post ever!
July 25, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I personally don’t like movies shot this way even though it is more in a personal view of everything. I find shooting movies this way is unstable, like how it was in Cloverfield, but it does give you more of a feel as if you’re in the movie. So I don’t disagree with this filming method for this movie.
July 25, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Ok, I kinda liked this post. You were on to something but you didn’t seem to know that you were on it.
Focus more on why a director would choose to shoot a movie the way they shot Colverfield. The idea is they’re trying to suspend belief. The shaky camera of a DVC is something everyone can relate to so it’s suppose to make things seem scarier but it sounds like that shit didn’t work for you.
Explain why. That’s a good idea for a post.