Blair Witch Project

Blair Witch Project

The Blair witch project, a film allegedly made from the documentary from when some college students went missing. All the film is constructed from the camera work of hand-held (POV) The first 15 minutes of this film is the introduction of the characters in the film. Heather, Josh and Mike are college students producing a documentary on ‘The Blair Witch’.

  In the opening minutes of the film introduce the idea of the project the characters will be doing and what kind of people the characters are, the personalities and their idiosyncrasies, this truly sets the realism in the film for the audience to become attached to the individual characters.

  A few further minutes into the film it starts to pick up pace and concentrate on the true content of the film. By this time the characters are interviewing people on the topic of the Blair Witch and their understanding and possible experiences of this phenomenon where children went missing throughout the 1940’s.

  Further into the film the main setting (location) of the film is attained - the Blair Woods. From here until the end of the film, all filming takes place in these woods, apart from the last couple of minutes, which are filmed inside an old house. The house of the alleged “Blair Witch’. Main sequence and plot of the film is set in the ‘Blair woods’, this is where un-explained things start happening to the teenagers, bags start being emptied and part of their trio is split up and lost. The rest of the group go looking for him.

 The next part of the film is mainly shot by Heather, and is primarily her explaining how afraid she is, and that she loves her mom. The rest of the shots used in the film are completely hand-held shots, very shaky, very un-even and un-balanced. Many of the shots used are slow and very suggestive, of a possible ‘fright’ to the audience. This is accomplished by much of the screen being used as background, where in the foreground is the detail, usually crammed into one quarter of the screen.

  This is the last shot in the film; Mike is standing against the wall, which is a previous reference to things discussed in the film. Earlier in the film, it was said by an interviewee that the ‘Blair witch’ made one child face the wall while he murdered one child and then in succession, the other. The end title sequence then rolls.