We gave her a detailed kind of account because we felt she needed to know off-hand a lot more about the Blair Witch than the guys did, so we told her, "You need to become kind of an expert on all this information," and then obviously just the camping basics.įilming began on Octoin Montgomery County, Maryland. Sanchez: We took them to Montgomery College to walk around a little bit, that was supposedly the place that they had met, and we drove them around Maryland, to give them the sights, to sort of give them an idea of what it's like to live there, and we got them magazines from the 1994 era so they could read up about it, and then for Heather, we worked on the mythology. That was me realizing that I’d screwed up the calculations for my measurements and the footage was probably going to be out of focus.
BLAIR WITCH FOREST MOVIE
But even that didn’t save me from screwing up a bunch of the footage-that whole conversation in the movie about feet versus meters after we left Mary Brown’s house-that was real. When I arrived in Maryland, I was introduced to the late and great Neal Fredericks, who was in charge of the film’s "look." He and I went out shooting for a day so I could learn the ins and outs of the CP. It was a beast of a camera-mostly used for news broadcasts before video was invented.
Leonard: I’d never shot with the CP-16 before. Anything that was shot in the video camera, you're hearing it in the video camera, but any of the black and white stuff was all the DAT, which is an old school sound system. Williams: I had to learn how the sound works, how the DAT works. Williams: Ed Sanchez was sitting behind a table with a couple of other folks, and he just said, "You've just served ten years of a twenty year prison sentence, you're up for parole, what do you have to say for yourself?" So he didn't watch my tape, he didn't say good morning, he didn't say anything, he just immediately went into improv. Improv? How do you improv a film? So I went to the open call and there was a sort of sign hanging before you went into the room, a little 8x10 flyers hung up like, "if you get this role you will be subject to uncomfortable physical situations, you will never be in harm's way, you will be outdoors most of the time, if this is not your thing, please don't audition."ĭaniel Myrick: We set up the audition process in such a way that allowed us to quickly assess a person's ability to improvise, and, they saw a paragraph that stated that you are going up for parole, you were convicted of murder twelve years ago, and now you're getting ready to state your case in front of the parole board. And I love both of those things, so I thought that was interesting. said "feature film to be shot in a wooded location," I think it said improvisational feature film… Improv and camping required.
BLAIR WITCH FOREST PROFESSIONAL
Williams : I didn't really have any professional experience, other than training at SUNY New Paltz for four years. The Blair Witch Project turns 20 this week, so we spoke to the cast and crew to look back at the making one of the most legendary horror films of all time.
The film managed to do so much with so little, and it also introduced one of the first viral marketing campaigns, gaining a following before it even hit theaters. Part of what made The Blair Witch Project so groundbreaking is that you never see the actual Blair Witch, and the filmmakers didn't use special effects to scare audiences instead they had genuine reactions from a cast that didn't know what awaited them in the woods. Williams played fictionalized versions of themselves, heading out to the Maryland woods to film a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch. In one of the most intense filmmaking experiences imaginable, actors Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Sanchez and Myrick had to find actors who were quick on their feet, because although the duo had written a very detailed outline of the script, the dialogue would be almost entirely improvised. Though Sanchez and Myrick first came up for the concept as film students at the University of Central Florida in 1991, they put their plans into action in 1996, and due to funding issues, they didn't start casting the film until 1997. The movie was the most-talked about horror movie of the season, but it took years to become a reality. Just hours after the midnight screening, the two young directors sold the film to Artisan Entertainment for $1.1 million. Made with a budget of only $60,000, the film premiered at Sundance in 1999.
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