Postmodern Style Filming

We aim to film our short film in a post modern inspired way. We aim to film the majority of the film with a handheld video camera that will be used by one of the main characters (The student filmmaker) We will do this as this style of filming is common to the type of films we are aiming to create. The handheld camera helps to convince the audience that they are watching real footage that a real person has filmed and not just a character in a film. This handheld style of filming is inspired by films such as 'The Blair Witch Project', 'Cloverfield', 'Grave Encounters' to name but a few.
We researched into the Blair Witch Project and how they went about creating the style of filming. This is a feature quote that stuck out for me in the article:
 "We didn't want it shot too slick or anything.In the film, they are supposed to be student filmmakers, and we wanted thefootage to look like student footage."

Here is the link to this website:

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/dcp/news/behind-blair-witch-project/44043 

The post modern inspired part our filming comes from us wanting to involve a 'Third Party' by this I mean we aim to use a steady cam. The steady cam will film the characters in the film being filmed.The Television series 'Extras' also partly inspired this style of filming due to the idea of the characters being filmed filming. This is meant to have a 'fly on the wall' type effect as the steady cam is watching the events unfold. The steady cam is never acknowledged or shown it is simply there to film the characters already being filmed by the handheld camera.  We have done this for the following reasons:

1. We want to showcase to the examiner our camera skills, including framing, lighting etc and we felt that through a hand-held cam we wouldn't be able to do this as effectively as we would have liked. Therefore using both types of filming, it will be clear that our hand held footage is deliberately shaky, bad composition and lighting to create a tense, uneasy feel in contrast to the steady cam which offers an easy way to watch the film and demonstrates typical, good quality camera shots. It also gives the viewer a break from the constant uneasy hand held footage that could potentially put off our target audience from watching the film. Essentially our film will have the best of both worlds. 
2. We want the steady cam to add to the tension of the film and we feel that most hand-held cam films either stick with that type of filming and never mix the two. After doing some research into different TV series etc one being 'Supernatural' that have experimented with this style, we found that it actually works extremely well and allows the audience an overall view and insight into what is happening. An objective view, looking in on the situation but also a subjective view from the student filmmaker, building an emotional attachment to the character.