Cloverfield (Camera)

Today i watched Cloverfield. A fictional story of a group of friends trying to stay alive during a monster attack on New York. The film is shot entirely from a hand held camera and as well as giving some people motion sickness it really helps the immersion in the film because it is as if you are looking through one of the survivors eyes. Also becuase it is done on a handheld camera it gives the director way to make it seem like someones personal camera which inturn gives him a way of introducing charecters! Cloverfield opens with text explaining that the following footage is confidential footage on the case named cloverfield. The film than starts with footage of the main charecter being woken up by a female charecter (whom at thispoint you cannot see because she is holding the camera) and it goes into clips of a few days before the event introducing the charecters. I would not say that the opening of Cloverfield is anything close to a memorable begining but it serves its purpose. It introduces main charecters by having thier lives before the monster attack instead of trying to introduce these charecters to you in the midst of a fight between the military and the monster!