Juno, was a perfect film that we releated to during our production and pre-production stages because It's a great teen drama, which relates to issues such as teenage pregnancy and love. It's a film that all teenageers would want to watch, boys and girls. We wanted to try and portray this in our film; a film that both girls could relate too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20PQBtyfNZY
In this scene, Juno is walking down the street and you see her from the side, behind and what she can see (POV) we wanted to recreate this in our own film.
Handheld effect.
As i've stated before, we wanted the girl to look drugged up, which added this twisted feeling to our film, what is she doing? what is she thinking? what is she seeing? We decided to add this handheld, so we can see the girls veiw as she sees it. We recorded this girl walking from behind, and also actor also took the camera at one point and staggered with it, so we had two types of hand held, as if someone was watching her, and her point of veiw literally. We got this idea from bair witch, which is a horror that only uses handheld in their film. I watched this film for a idea of what we could do with the handheld effect, and my god, it was good. In the actual film it added a lot more suspense as it included the audience that little bit more; it felt like the audience was there with the character. http://www.blairwitch.com/
This is a scene from the blair witch project, which I personally think it works great. You can see the actors true emotions and fear, we really wanted to try and work this into our film so thats why we decided to give the actor the camera so we can also record her steps/ her point of veiw as well as behind her, to show the full picture of what is going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66RpatHajQ
The handheld worked well in our film, We are both pleased with the way it turned out.
This is a scene from the blair witch project, which I personally think it works great. You can see the actors true emotions and fear, we really wanted to try and work this into our film so thats why we decided to give the actor the camera so we can also record her steps/ her point of veiw as well as behind her, to show the full picture of what is going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66RpatHajQ
The handheld worked well in our film, We are both pleased with the way it turned out.
Equipment and How we found using it.
In our filming and editing stages we had to use a range of equipment to make sure our film works the best it could. We used all the equipment that the college offered and Hired them for the week. My group didn't look into using our own equipment as we didn't have it, and the equipment is pretty expensive to buy for a one off usage.
This is the equipment we used:
This is a very simular camera we used to record our feature film. It was quite simple to use, had a button to take a picture, and another button to zoom in and out. There was other features to the camera and we did attempt to play around with them i.e. the contrast. However because both Danielle and I was newbies to the whole camera, it didn't come out as nice as we orginally thought, so we stayed put with the basic recordings. apart from the focus, we played around with that alot and I will discuss this on another post later on.
This is a very similar camera stand we used during our recording/filming. We used this because we set our film outside, so we needed something to keep the camera at a balance which made our film straight and wonky. We used this on a few of our shots but not all of them because we was also using handheld. This is a good bit of equipment if you need to keep the camera nice and straight, but in my opinion it was a complete bugger! As we both had trouble actually getting the stand up and straight itself but with a bit of a play around, we sorted it and used it prefectly in our film.
I have added a picture of a hand to my equipment list because most of our film was actually recorded using handheld, We wanted to use handheld to make sure we gave our film that personal and more twisted effect and the fact that our main character was drugged up, the hand held allowed us to follow her footsteps and film her falling over and tilting the camera, which made it look more realistic.
In our editing stage, we used an apple I mac to edit our films. We used Imovie to create and edit our film. This stage was partly difficult because eventhough we had used the software before, we wanted to play around with the editing that little bit more, so that our film looked that more twisted. 
This is a picture of a clapper board which I found on the internet, we used this so that we could easily see which scenes was what in the editing stage. We did struggle using this as I was only danielle recording whilst I was acting so, it was a task to record and 'clap' at the same time. However it did help us in the editing stage to find and sort each take of our film. 
We used the internet for a range of things during the production of 'Forgotten'. For example:
We researched most worn outfit by teens; shirt, jeans and converse.
We researched music that will suit our film.
We researched appropriate places we could record in canterbury.
We researched opening times for the canterbury park
We researched bus and train times so that we could come back and record our film.
This is the equipment we used:
I have added a picture of a hand to my equipment list because most of our film was actually recorded using handheld, We wanted to use handheld to make sure we gave our film that personal and more twisted effect and the fact that our main character was drugged up, the hand held allowed us to follow her footsteps and film her falling over and tilting the camera, which made it look more realistic.
In our editing stage, we used an apple I mac to edit our films. We used Imovie to create and edit our film. This stage was partly difficult because eventhough we had used the software before, we wanted to play around with the editing that little bit more, so that our film looked that more twisted. 
This is a picture of a clapper board which I found on the internet, we used this so that we could easily see which scenes was what in the editing stage. We did struggle using this as I was only danielle recording whilst I was acting so, it was a task to record and 'clap' at the same time. However it did help us in the editing stage to find and sort each take of our film. We researched most worn outfit by teens; shirt, jeans and converse.
We researched music that will suit our film.
We researched appropriate places we could record in canterbury.
We researched opening times for the canterbury park
We researched bus and train times so that we could come back and record our film.
More research on genre- Teen Drama
As I've stated before our feature film, 'Forgotten' is a Teen Drama. I believe that programmes like Skins and Misfits are also Teen Dramas as they both fit the requirements just like our film. Last night I watched episodes of both dramas, personally I didnt like skins as the storylines seem very repetitive but misfts wasn't that bad. www.imdb.com
Skins: The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures. Created by Bryan Elsey & Jamie Brittain. It stars Kaya Scodelario, Joe Dempsie and Mike Bailey. Rated a 18 because of the sexual content and drug abuse
Misfits:A group of kids doing community service get struck by lightning during a storm, and begin to develop superpowers. Created by Howard Overman and stars Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. Rated a 15
Both Programmes relate to day to day teenage life, which is very similar to our film as it is about teenagers and drug abuse; teenagers will normally try drugs at least once in their lifes. Misfits however is slightly different to the normal teenage life, as they have super powers so it's not really as reflective compared to the skins. The best teen dramas contain three of the following:
Skins: The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures. Created by Bryan Elsey & Jamie Brittain. It stars Kaya Scodelario, Joe Dempsie and Mike Bailey. Rated a 18 because of the sexual content and drug abuse
Both Programmes relate to day to day teenage life, which is very similar to our film as it is about teenagers and drug abuse; teenagers will normally try drugs at least once in their lifes. Misfits however is slightly different to the normal teenage life, as they have super powers so it's not really as reflective compared to the skins. The best teen dramas contain three of the following: - Sex
- Dating Issues
- Cheating
- Bad Grades
- Popularity Issues
- Outcasts
- Drugs
- Violence
- Abuse
- Pregnancy
- Homosexuality
- Running Away
- Cutting
- Suicidal
- Dease
- Parenting Issues
- Depressing
- Abandonment from Parent
- Money Issues
- Obesity
- Eating Disorders Bipolar
- Anger
- Predator
- Shoplifting
- Bullying
- Date Rape
- Rape
- Harassment
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