Wednesday, 26 January 2011

my NEW plan and looking at the film -BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Me and Bryony have decided to take a different route so I decided to go back to my first plan. The story I made up and the ideas of you seeing it from the protagonists point of view. Like the trail of thought in the opening of "Twilight."
The idea of being followed.

 FACT FILE of The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film; 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 near 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.
A studio production film based on the theme of The Blair Witch Project was released on October 27, 2000 entitled Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Another sequel was planned for the following year, but did not materialize. On September 2, 2009, it was announced that co-directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick were pitching the sequel.

Directed byDaniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez
Produced byRobin Cowie
Gregg Hale
Written byDaniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez
StarringHeather Donahue
Joshua Leonard
Michael C. Williams
Music byAntonio Cora
CinematographyNeal Fredericks
Editing byDaniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez
StudioHaxan Films
Distributed byArtisan Entertainment
Release date(s)January 25, 1999
July 16, 1999
July 30, 1999
Running time86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$22,000
Gross revenue$248,639,099
Followed byBook of Shadows


The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide, compared to its final budget which ranged between $500,000 and $750,000.
Rotten Tomatoes provides links to 127 reviews for the film, with 85% of these reviews being favorable.Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars, calling it "an extraordinarily effective horror film"
The Blair Witch Project is thought to be the first widely released film marketed primarily on the Internet. A sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released in the autumn of 2000, but was poorly received by most critics.A third installment announced that same year did not materialize.
The Blair Witch Project was given a Global Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay and won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. Conversely, the film was nominated for the 1999 Razzie Award for Worst Picture. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named The Blair Witch Project one of the "The 100 best films from 1983 to 2008", ranking it at #99. In 2006, Chicago Film Critics Association listed it as one of the "Top 100 Scariest Movies", ranking it #12

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