Opening Analysis - Blair Witch Project

The opening that we decided to look at was from the Blair witch project. This was because our film is going to be done in the same style. The key thing to note from this was that it is almost a documentary of a documentary. To differentiate from the documentary and other footage that had been taken from the cameras, the makers decided to have the documentary clips in grey scale. To try and make us believe that the footage was real, the makers deliberately had the camera shake every now and then, and had the typical amateur camera footage to give the viewer a feeling that there is possibility that the footage was real. The opening mainly consist of the documentary crew having interviews with different people from the town in the usual questions and answers format. Each person being interviewed tells of a different tale that they had heard about the legend that is the Blair witch such as "my grandmother used to tell us all to make us go to bed early, they say if you stay up after dark walk around the house too much the Blair witch will come and get you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnqnHtp_nRs&feature=related