This typical horror film colour makes the trailer slowly become more disturbing to the viewers. The trailer now appears in monochrome unlike the previous image on the trailer which creates a spine chilling feeling to the audience watching. However this woman is very frail and to some looks strange. This is very unusual to see in horror trailers as it isn’t very frightening or jumpy.Īgain the trailer cuts to another woman talking about her thoughts on the Blair Witch. The filmmaker is asking the woman about the Blair Witch and her thought on the historic story. It helps makes the audience wonder what is happening it could also create fear for the audience as nobody is sure what the screen will appear on the screen next, this literally keeps the audience in the dark!Īs soon as the blank screen is shown for a few seconds the trailer jumps to a middle aged woman and a child. This is the first of many times a cut to blank black screen is used. The trailer then cuts to another black screen. It shows the girl confidently being filmed and talking about her thoughts about who the Blair Witch is. It is very significant that the first image in this horror film is of a woman as typically in horror genres the female character is always the most vulnerable. It is very apparent that the camera is hand held. As it becomes apparent that the filmmakers had disappeared its significant to the audience that they will be watching the footage that was found after they had disappeared.Īfter the information dissolves the home footage appears of a young girl being film on shaky, poor video tape. The text reads “A year Later their footage was found” these two paragraphs are significant as they were also shown on the poster. In the second image that appears in the trailer is a few seconds after the first paragraph that is shown in bold white font on a eerie black background. “PictureHouse’ however as this film states that it was home made footage that was found there is no need to add this information as it makes the film feel more realistic, like it is a documentary or non-fiction story. This is a very unusual start to an official film trailer as conventionally the first image shown on the trailer is the green preview image stating the age rating, or the name of the company that mad the film e.g. The image indicates that the inquisitive filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Maryland while shooting a documentary. It stays on the screen for a few seconds so the audience is able to read the information shown on the screen about the history of the Blair Witch. The thing is, he's going back out to Rate this script: (0.At the start of the trailer of The Blair Witch Project it begins with this image above which highlights some background information to the story of the film. Holding down, holding down, holding down. Investigators concluded that James' sister Eventually, James will find himself in the epicentre of the evil activity, traīut those woods have been searched, right? Sooner or later, the team will go astray in the heart of a green maze that is riddled with the chilling legend of Elly Kedward, the Blair Witch who relentlessly keeps messing with their sanity, gradually taking them down, one by one. After accidentally stumbling across the uploaded footage, James, believing that this is his final chance to put an end once and for all in the unresolved mystery of his sister's Heather disappearance, some twenty years ago in the same woods, he assembles a team of friends in search of answers.

The content of the found tape is mostly footage of static, however, near the end, there is also an intriguing small part where someone is trying to escape from something that is after him, screaming and running in an abandoned house. Synopsis: Near Burkittsville, in the Black Hills Forest, on the root of a lightning-struck tree, the couple of Lane and Talia find a DV tape sticking out of the ground.

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