Super 8 Research

Super 8 DVD is was released on 22/11 as part of a 2 disc Blu-ray combo pack featuring 14 deleted scenes and 8 behind the scene featurettes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_URTtoHpbEc – MTV Awards clip


http://www.super8news.com/


http://www.filmfreak.com/2011/06/10/super-8-movie-review/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzUCA5i6zY – First Trailer that was released

People began spotting anomalies on February 6. Not long after a trailer for Super 8—the latest J.J. Abrams flick—showed up on the movie’s official website, viewers noted that several frames differed from a Super Bowl ad that had aired earlier in the day. By the time another version appeared the following day, Abrams fanatics were hooked, posting pics and compiling clues.

Of course, Abrams is no stranger to secrecy and surprise. Nobody even knew he was producing a movie when the first trailer for Cloverfield (directed by Matt Reeves) came out. It’s a risky strategy—the more a lothario teases, the greater the potential for disappointment. When Cloverfield was finally released in 2008, The New York Times snubbed it as “a feature-length gimmick.” Can Super 8—which has already spawned fictional websites and fake blogs—hope to meet fans’ throbbing expectations?

Abrams’ television projects—Alias, Lost, and Fringe—infatuated audiences by introducing new mysteries with each episode. Abrams compared Lost to the cliff-hanger fiction serialized by Charles Dickens, though the analogy is a stretch. For Dickens, each unexpected turn of events led to the next; Abrams lets his mysteries proliferate without definitive resolution. He’s more like James Joyce, who once informed a befuddled translator of Ulysses that “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Our lothario’s elixir of life flows from the labyrinth of Lost. And we love him for it.

Super 8 has the makings of something different. Produced by Abrams’ idol, Steven Spielberg, it shares a kinship with E.T. Spielberg originally intended to create a movie about divorce, but it worked best overlaid with an extraterrestrial plot. If Abrams is to be believed, the havoc that gives his film momentum—children making a zombie flick in 1970s middle America witness the late-night derailment of a train coming from Area 51—is all in the service of character. Super 8 will romance us with—gasp!—old-fashioned sentiment.






http://www.super8comiccontest.com/


http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/super-8/5561


Like Cloverfield, an earlier J. J. Abrams film, Super 8 was promoted through an extensive viral marketing campaign. The first trailer for the movie was attached to Iron Man 2, released in May 2010. The trailer gave the premise of a section of Area 51 being closed down in 1979 and its contents being transported by freight train to Ohio. A pickup truck drives into the oncoming train, derailing it, and one of the carriages is smashed open while a Super 8 camera films. Fans analyzing the trailer found a hidden message, "Scariest Thing I Ever Saw", contained in the final frames of the trailer. This led to a website, Scariest Thing I Ever Saw, which simulated an old computer and contained various clues to the film's storyline (the computer was eventually revealed to belong to Josh Woodward, the son of Dr. Woodward, who is trying to find out what happened to his father). Another viral website, Rocket Poppeteers was also found, which like Slusho from Cloverfield plays no direct part in the film but is indirectly related. The official Super 8 website also contained an "editing room" section, which asked users to find various clips from around the web and piece them together. When completed, the reel makes up the film found by the kids in Dr. Woodward's trailer, showing the ship disintegrating into individual white cubes, and the alien reaching through the window of its cage and snatching Dr. Woodward. The video game Portal 2 contained an interactive trailer placing the player on board the train before it derails, and showing the carriage being smashed open and the roar of the alien within. The viral campaign generated massive hype for the film long before its release


Super was produced by Amblin Entertainment, Bad Robot Productions and Paramount Pictures which is currently owned by Viacom


Dedicated film website - www.super8-movie.com/


Blog- http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Article/Movie-Blog--Not-So-Super-8-Popcorn-Diaries-021243066866484


http://www.super8-movie.com/editingroom.html - interaction with audience


Now this is how you do a movie tie-in.

Super 8, a new app named for the eponymous j.j. Abrams flick that opens june 10, isn't some lame collection of teaser clips or a slapped-together game. Rather, it's a full-featured video recorder designed to emulate super 8 film cameras.

In other words, it's like a wayback machine for your iphone and ipad 2, allowing you to record home movies with a decidedly '60s flair. The only thing it's not is new: apps like 8mm vintage camera and silent film director have offered this capability for a while.

Ah, but super 8 is free--and it's mighty slick. The entire interfaced is modeled after a super 8 case, complete with vintage instruction manual, super 8 "cassettes" (i.e. Your library of recordings), and the camera itself.

The camera comes with your choice of seven photorealistic "lenses," including color, sepia, negative, and even infrared. For any of them you can toggle a scratch-and-dirt overlay and a frame-shake effect; the latter literally makes the frame jump based on movement of the iphone. (this effect is probably incomprehensible to anyone who's never watched old home movies--but it's seriously cool for those of us who have.)

After you've shot some "film," you can organize (but not edit) your clips, then add titles and credits, insert an authentic-looking super 8 film leader, and "develop" the movie for viewing with super 8's "projector." (the attention to detail here is terrific: you have to pull down the "screen," and there are reverse and forward buttons you can hold to shuttle the playback in real-time.)

When you're done, you can e-mail your movies to friends or copy them back to your pc via itunes. Alas, there's no way to share via facebook or youtube.