Cloverfield film analysis

cloverfeild follows five new yorkers from a hand held prospective, a sub plot is established by showing bits and pieces of a video previously recorded on the tape that has been reordered over. The movie starts as a monster of unknown origin destroying a building, as they go to investigate, parts of the building and the head of the statue of liberty come raining down. The movie follows the adventure trying to escape and save a friend, the love interest of the main character. 
Cloverfield is a film with a linear narrative, the film starts 7 hours before the city gets destroyed, however, the film only lasts around 85 minutes. The way the characters show time passing is by turning the camera off, and then turning it back on and stating how much time has passed since the camera has been off. The story is driven by the six New Yorkers trying to get out of the city and escape the monster. 

An establishing shot is shown to present us with where the film has taken place, in this case is New York city and is also taking place at night time, which is typical for Sci-fi/thriller films. When we see the explosion over new york city colours such as red orange stand out to the audience therefore they know what is happening and the consequences, furthermore it is also suggesting future danger.
The fact there is huge explosions in the movie also show the generic conventions of a thriller film.

The target audience for this film would be typically teenagers and young adults as they are stereotypically the type of people that enjoy night life as the film shows a group at a party.