The rules of the horror genre are to try and change your emotions to fear and make you jump and startled during the jump scenes. The way 'The Blair Witch Project' relates with the horror genre is by filming it as a documentary format/style to make it more realistic. 'The Blair Witch Project' has imagination of the creatue but makes it more realistic by getting public to speak out about the monster, to make the flim creepier to the audience. This bring chills into an audience spine because the public is speaking about casually in person so it leave the viewrs second guessing thinking is this true or just a fantasy.
The way the narrative of the film works with the genre of horror is by making it realistic as possible to still bring fear to viewers and not to make it as an American blockbuster film. First of all the narrative of the film is to make it a documentary of the film is about the footage of the film found but the people that created the footage have not been found. In the open scene that shows this dialogue, the audience start to be more curious of what this film has to offer and with leaving the audience second guessing of what going to happen will make them more anxious to what's to come.
Although, 'The Blair Witch Project' film techniques are very clever and unique than other horror films because it makes the film look natural, it only uses two types of camera (handheld camera to film their own and also the filming camera for the film). You don't see this a lot in the horror genre because most horror films won't generalise who the camera man is so most films want to be professional wheras, 'The Blair Witch Project' wanted to make it amateurish to bring more realism to the film. Another technique they used is the black screen effect. This bring a scary mood to the audience because loosing sense like your eyes is quite scary and also you will need to use your other senses trying to figure out what is going on.
The iconography in the film 'The Blair Witch Project' are the scariest and could leave fears in the back of your mind. For example, in the film the woman found some teeth on the floor the day after their friend goes missing. You would see this sort of sinister ideas from a horror films to make the audience scared thinking they are real and thinking it's their friends teeth. Aonther example that made me get shivers down my back would be the evidence people gave in the town that came true through the film. This is very familar towards horror films when they leave clues to the missing puzzle of the mystery in the end of films. For example, 'Scooby Doo' use this method in every one of their episode and this relate to horror films because Scooby Doo is a cartoon version of horror films relating the same monster or actions in other horror films. So this gives the audience more of an understanding through the film not missing anything out for example, one town member talked about the house and it came true, another would be a person standing in the corner, one person stated and another said the Witch leaves rocks around the next person it kills but these are just beliefs and rumours. This I found scary because the movie makes you believe it is real but it was just actors acting but they made so realistic.
The marketing of the film is not the same as other films. For one, you don't see the creature so they won't merchandise toys or custumes for Halloween so have missed out on making childish figure. On the other hand, they have made the website about the film further so it makes people shiver when they think about the film again. The website gives you so much it's hard not to think "was that real, id that really happen". Further information like the history of the 'Witch' and the situation between the last footage and the period of turning it into the movie. The point of the website is to keep the movie alive in people mindsand also market the DVD at the same time.
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