trying to find a safe vantage point to tape the monster! what! No, run from the damn monster!
As for cloverfield, I suspect videotaping while fleeing doesn't work out too well. I suspect you also said the same of Blair Witch
As for the rest of your post, I sympathize. My brother in-law stylizes himself as a professional musician / voice actor / singer. No one can convince him otherwise. Even when his customers slug him in the face for whatever that sound he makes is supposed to be.