Blair Witch Project and Lake Mungo
For research on my opening, I decided to watch Lake Mungo and the Blair Witch Project (1999). Both films are very similar in a style both were documentaries, although Blair Witch Project was more on the line of a found footage film, just being about the making of a documentary. I will examine what works well for these films and see how they could work well in my opening.
Blair Witch Project
Blair Witch goes for the exact same look as I want for my opening. And it perfectly captures it too. The movie does feel very real, as it claims to be. And I think that it's amateur looking filmmaking sells that idea. Never for a second does it feel overly produced and that lends it to the movie really looking and feeling like footage that was found on some dead missing people. The low quality and bad shot composition are what sold it for me. That is something that I would use in my opening to make it feel more real.
I feel that this clip from the movie shows what I explained.
Lake Mungo
Lake mungo is yet another example of a film that tries it's best to emulate real life. The film never does anything at the beginning to show that it could be somehow faked. Instead of relying on the amateur style to sell that it is real. The documentary instead tries to make itself seem just as produced as any other documentary out there so then nothing seems off. It using all the typical characteristics of the documentary sells the idea quickly. The film's director even just gave actors slim outlines of the script so when he interviewed them for the fake documentary they could give off real improvised responses.
This Ryan Hollinger analysis talks more in-depth
Blair Witch Project
Blair Witch goes for the exact same look as I want for my opening. And it perfectly captures it too. The movie does feel very real, as it claims to be. And I think that it's amateur looking filmmaking sells that idea. Never for a second does it feel overly produced and that lends it to the movie really looking and feeling like footage that was found on some dead missing people. The low quality and bad shot composition are what sold it for me. That is something that I would use in my opening to make it feel more real.
I feel that this clip from the movie shows what I explained.
Lake Mungo
Lake mungo is yet another example of a film that tries it's best to emulate real life. The film never does anything at the beginning to show that it could be somehow faked. Instead of relying on the amateur style to sell that it is real. The documentary instead tries to make itself seem just as produced as any other documentary out there so then nothing seems off. It using all the typical characteristics of the documentary sells the idea quickly. The film's director even just gave actors slim outlines of the script so when he interviewed them for the fake documentary they could give off real improvised responses.
This Ryan Hollinger analysis talks more in-depth
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