Information:
The Blair Witch Project is an American horror film released in 1999. The narrative is presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage, filmed in real time. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three young student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams) who hike into the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch, and subsequently go missing. The viewer is told that the three were never found, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later. This "recovered footage" is presented as the film the viewer is watching.
Budget:
A list of production budget figures have circulated over the years, appearing as low as $20,000. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sánchez revealed the truth about the budget. When principal photography first wrapped, approximately $20,000 to $25,000 had been spent. When the directing pair took the film to Sundance, they had to make a print and render a sound mix for the picture, which moved the budget close to $100,000. Before Artisan Entertainment bought the licensing rights they spent an additional "half-million dollars" crafting a new sound mix and reshoots for scenes they wanted changed. Sánchez concludes that the final budget was somewhere between $500,000 and $750,000.
The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide, compared to its final budget which ranged between $500,000 and $750,000.
How it Relates to our Project:
The film ‘The Blair Witch Project’ relates to our project mainly due to its setting, which is in some woods and the fact that it is a group of friends that venture into the woods and don’t come out again. Most of the time people compare their projects to ‘The Blair Witch Project’ because of the way it’s filmed, which is a camcorder held by an un-professional cameraman which creates the illusion of a real documentary or a real case murder mystery which the footage of the lost people was found. Our film may have parts of camerawork like this but not to the extreme that this film used. The main similarity to ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and our film is the wood setting around a campsite. We felt that this would be a perfect place to film a horror and will create a sense of loneliness and fear of danger being able to reach you from any direction. As well as the wood setting, the chatter between the actors would be very similar in the sense that it will feel very natural which this film does perfectly creating a sense of realism that this really happened.
In conclusion this film is a great inspiration on how to use the environment the best way possible and how we can make our script more fluid and believable.
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