Low budget film making

This is the trailer for the 1999 movie The Blair Witch Project, during a lesson we were tasked with watching and noting down aspects of low budget film making during the full film.

 The film Blair Witch project had a budget of 60,000 US dollars and this in comparison of most budgets films are given is a pale example.

 The aspects I noticed where; The small number of actors involved, The main characters two boys and one girl are seen throughout the whole movie while minor characters have a short scene each and are not seen again these characters are used for exposition in the story which ultimately would keep the costs low and help push the theme of this being a documentary of the main antagonist the Blair witch. This is used cleverly to push the story along and cut costs as this minor actors would of been people hired in the local area or family members/friends of the producers.

The equipment isn't state of the art and all that seemed to be used were a black and white camera and a handheld color camera which again would benefit the production costs because less equipment costs and less risk assessments to location and equipment, however this does reduce the quality of the recording as video-grain can be noticed and in some parts (I'm unsure weather if it was to be realistic) the lens was dirty or scratched.

The audio quality wasn't perfect because of the location the filming took place out in the woods so ambiance was quite good however they surely would of had to take multiple takes of difference scenes till they were uninterrupted and also if any equipment was damaged they would have to replace it quickly and because of their location while multiple people may of been nearby during filming you wouldn't have unlimited resources available.

Overall I didn't much like The Blair Witch Project but it's just my personal view that it wasn't very well done.