CMN 201
4/29/20
Topic: The Blair Witch Project and 28 Days Later
Note: I will be in our class live chat room during our scheduled class for questions/comments/issues
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Zoom Virtual Office Hour
Tuesdays 1:45-2:45 or by appointment
Meeting ID: 702-819-0433
The Blair Witch Project
--- Started found footage movement (meta: movie about a movie)
---Method acting for faux documentary
---Similar to slasher films: isolate characters and eliminate by dehumanizing force
---Shaky camera creates physical audience discomfort
--- Independent movie/shoe string budget ($60,000 / 250 million (+)
---1990’s: birth of Internet
---Genius marketing : (www.BlairWitch.com : newsreel footage and interviews – 3 rural filmmakers shooting film on urban legend. Curse of Blair Witch Documentary on Sci Fi Channel (1999). Internet Movie Database listed actors as deceased.
--- Fear of unknown
--- Wilderness vs civilization
---What is reality? Movie techniques try to mimic reality, characters are unsure of what is reality, technology records but also distorts reality (technological uncanny)
---Misunderstandings/solitude brought by technology – filtered film reality is only thing Heather has left
--- subtle/ambiguous/suggestive
--- Does victim empower monster by seeking it out?
---Sanity/insanity
28 Days Later
---Projected Fears thought film would achieve a cultural status that it hasn’t
--- Updated Zombie tale?
---British
--- Rage virus
---Destruction of current society (Apocalyptic 2000’s)
---Critique of media/government/consumerism
---importance of community (Hello)
---Creation of new family/society
Watch 28 Days Later (2002) (See Amazon link in previous post)
Nightmares: Chap 8 & 9 ( Postmodern Horror I & II)
Horror Film: (Digital Horrors)
Projected Fears: Conclusion
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Attendance Question: (please submit vis email with name and class)
What mistake did I discuss that I made?
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