applied to Blair Witch

I do not believe that either quotation is truer than the other. As soon as I read both, I could see how they directly applied to The Blair Witch Project. Although they may differ, I believe the movie was attempting to capture many things. In making it appear that the actors were not really actors but real people, the filmmakers led the audience to believe that the aura of who they saw on the screen truly was the aura of the actors. In reality, we do not know who these people are. Their true aura is most likely not what they lead us to believe through the portrayal of the characters from the movie. In the end, the viewer really feels that they know the true person they saw in the film.

The second quote captures the true essence of the movie. The entire concept was that this small film crew was going out to film a very real documentary. Not only that, but the so calle dfootage you were watching was said to be what was found. However, what I noticed myself about the difference be=tween the cameraman and the painter is that the painter may be able to manipulate and reproduce and image, you know it is only an image. The filmaker holds much more power. People are more apt to believe something is real if a filmaker shows it to them rather than a painter. The Blair Witch project was not real, but their goal was to make people think it was.