My best friend was OBSESSED with Blair With Project, we even made our own shitty version in windows movie maker xD Funny thing is, she was so inspired by that and other horror movies that she ended up going to school for SFX makeup. Now she works on TV shows and movies, she actually just worked on her big movie! She did the practical SFX for the new Candyman movie!
I remember when Blair Witch Project was released. After I watched with friends, I couldn't sleep that night in their house out in the woods. And when we woke up, we found dusty old decrepit decaying leather baby shoes sitting in the driveway behind the car. I never went back to my friend's house after that.
I left my work uniform on the clothesline outside before I went to the movie and was too scared to go out and get it. Next day I had to go to work in damp clothes, not as spooky as your story....OR IS IT?
This hit before Amnesia made me realize that stuff on a screen can't hurt you :). Solid film. Cannibal holocaust is still the goat and certain scenes still make me feel ill to watch despite having seen way worse stuff since then.
Really enjoyed you calling crickets "hippy hoppers", way better name for them in my opinion. I even think I will steal it, if anyone asks ill let them know where I got it from as compensation.
I've been a Blaire Witch fan for so long and I've delved into every facet a billion times... But never did I realize what was going on with the audio between cameras.. Absolutely incredible.
The detail of Mike facing the corner gets me every time. It’s like, kind of stereotypical, but at the same time it’s done with so little fanfare that it’s still so effective.
I never pay attention to views, likes, or subs when I first go into a video, so I was absolutely SHOCKED to see that with this quality of a video, and someone who is genuinely entertaining, isn't at over 800k already ?? Gonna be so cool watching you grow
Amazing video, man. I have to rewatch The Blair Witch Project now, that sound design is genius. I love how they not only realistically used the materials the characters had at their disposal instead of taking shortcuts, but they even used it to their advantage to create such a powerful effect. Wonderful filmmaking.
the fact that you got me so interested in 1998 internet that i forgot i was watching a video about the blair witch project... man you are good, wish you the best.
I was 7 when this movie came out. A lot of people actually thought it was real. It was SOOOOO hyped. People were so mad when they found out it was all fake 🤣
I like found footage, because of the lack of a spoon fed linear story. You have to piece together what is going on, and you are usually left to use our own imagination to create the scenarios and the end is up to you to ponder the implications. Sometimes that's more horrific
Yes! Thank you! I've been saying this for the past 20 years, and you did much better job articulating it than I would have. Thanks for this video and the other great content. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
This was very entertaining with an amazing analysis of the movie. I loved the way you described the feeling of being lost and "robbed of half of our senses" to illustrate why the ending scene was so impactful. Thank you for the video!
unsure how this video stumbled into my recommended but im so glad it did :D as someone who also loves the found footage subcategory of horror, i've always admired blair witch for popularising the genre. yet somehow my horror nerd self never thought about how the sound design affected this movie so this was super insightful :0 hope you analyse other movies in the future bc this was great content
I have no idea either as this is my first video and I didn't expect much traction, but I'm stoked to hear its getting recommended to people so thank you for letting me know! And thank you for watching!
Man, I literally stumbled upon this video this morning, and here I am at 11 pm, at least 75 episodes deep into the ten tapes, watching livestreams and all 🤯🤯 freaking genius, please I need to see the livestream with J and it's not on the archive!! 😭🙏
Hey! I'm uploading as many videos as I can almost daily, but youtube has a limit at 15 videos a day, sometimes 30. I recommend staying patient and not continuing until its up on the archive! Thank you so much for watching both this and also seeking out 10 tapes!
About your outro: I have been binging your videos for the last couple days and I absolutely LOVE your humor and style! Please don't stop, you're takes are well thought out and beautifully crafted, and your quick humor is so terribly dumb in the most hilarious way possible! It warms my heart to see you here, starting a whole new thing, and to see how far you've come in the past year! Definitely subscribed, I should probably get on your patreon..
I saw your video about final destination and now i'm going through your backlog. that 45 seconds of blair witch has never left my mind since it came out when i was a kid. nothing else in that movie got me quite like the screams so far away and getting closer and closer. seing it as a kid, you dont really understand why the sound is suddenly so far away, but it really scared me and left an imprint. good to know it stuck to another persons brain. thank you for the video.
Hey, holy shit were talking materiality and unfiction. Hell yeah. This is one of the best video essays I've seen in our sphere. I'll be recommending this to friends.
I'm a film student and I had to make a final essay for sound design class comparing two movies, I chose The Blair witch project and The shinning as I truly love both of them. My essay had the exact train of thought as your video and I loved your work here. Specially the music from Hit and run lol
Absolutely love your point about the audio and what happens in the final couple of minutes- I have always been obsessed with that!! And yes, I bet most people don’t realize what’s going on with the audio- but when you do, it hits just at a visceral level! Awesome video!! 🎉
I just found your channel and while I'm slowly making my way through videos, seeing the joy with which you talk about a film that I truly love makes me so happy.
Honestly Blair Witch is one of my faves as well as the found footage genre, which I feel you should do more videos on, and this video pointed out a detail that I never thought of. It just shows the dedication that went into the film and the creativity behind it.
this was awesome man, great stuff. i really dig how you picked apart the tech side of it and think you nailed it. such a crazy simple but emotionally complex way to cut that scene.
Blair Witch, the requel, is one of the most underrated horror movies of all time. It has some of the best sound design I‘ve ever seen in any movie, it‘s genuinely scary, and it creates the forest at night atmosphere like I‘ve never seen before.
Horse! ❤ I loved this film when it came out (even though it terrified me also!), and it was one of the reasons I studied film at college. You getting into the detail of the sound design was fascinating, thank you.
Here for 10 Tapes (I came from the Tik Tok, I never used it untill I saw your series in Night Mind) staying for your humor and interesting topics!! (But mostly the moustache)
Alright but having to put together what crickets were in my head there for a second was goddamn hilarious. Actually, most of the humour in this video immediately made me laugh. I'm looking forward to binging out the rest of these videos for my shift. Very glad NM directed us here.
I just watched the entirety of the 10 tapes archive as well as night minds videos on it in which he shared this youtube channel. Loving the content so far! I never noticed the audio or how their cameras worked that way. Was super interesting.
Saw this in the theater when it was released. The sound was indeed creepy as hell. Especially the rock cracking sounds. It didn’t sound like rocks, and it sounded like it came from behind you, and felt like it was actually in the theater with you, I even looked behind me. The fact I remember that moment in the theater this many years later is testament to how well the sound was done.
It took me so long to watch this movie. Honestly, even if you know the gist of the movie, actually watching it is the only way you can "get it," and yeah, the sound is a huge part of that experience.
Watching videos about this film is always so jarring to me because I grew up in and still live in Frederick county Maryland lol. Like, how does Jeffiot know where I live 🫨
Really enjoying your videos! I love the passion you have for things. There's a video I've been wanting to make about a scene that hits me like this one hit you. This has really inspired me to maybe get around to making that video someday.
Saw this in the theater when it first came out. I was right on the cusp of when the false claims of it being a real documentary were found out. I had a suspicion that it might be fictional going into the theatre, but wasn't sure. Even though I was 20, it scared me so badly that I couldn't sleep that night. Like...not at all. That's the only time a film ever truly scared me like that.
This movie was a formative experience for me as a little kid who lived maybe thirty minutes from where it was filmed… especially not having the wherewithal to know it was fake at my age!
i absolutely adore found footage films, and the blair witch project is what started that for me. absolutely fantastic video also i love horse. i would die for horse
wonderful video, I still remember how scared I was the first time I saw the movie, i had never seen an analysis of this movie the way you did, i love the format and editing, keep it up, I will recommend the video to my friends, greetings from Mx!
Whoa, this is amazing. I did not expect to laugh or learn this much while searching for a Blair Witch audio essay. The first 5 minutes were more entertaining than 85% of RU-vid content. Thanks my guy
I’ve really been worried about Michael lately. I honestly don’t know what to do. He spends all night staring at the wall, not moving or saying anything. I got him a Tomagachi last week but I haven’t seen it around in a few days. You don’t think..? He wouldn’t.. I mean, right? I dunno, great video though.
New to your channel and just now got around to watching the first video on it. Didn't realize you've been sipping THAT SAME FUCKING DRINK FOR A YEAR WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FINISH IT??
For my Mom and Dad's honeymoon, they went to a cottage up in the woods. And they rented Blair Witch Project to watch that night. My Mom was so terrified she begged my Dad to keep checking the doors and windows to make sure they were locked.
Wonderful and interesting video! So happy to have stumbled across this channel! 😊 Would anyone know the name of the song that starts around 4:22? It’s so pleasant!
True story: before this was announced as a movie or released theatrically, the producers circulated some VHS copies around college campuses purporting it to be a true story. THIS is how i saw it, i believe in the fall of ‘97. I’ve never been so scared of a movie or maybe of anything. The whole walk back across campus, my friend and i were trying to pick logical holes in it because we were both so shaken up.
Just a few months after seeing Blair Witch in a theater, as a 29 year old, I was at an event on a big scout camp site and had to walk through about 100 yards of unlighted forest, well after sundown, to get to my car. As I made that walk, my brain suddenly informed me that I was indeed about to be grabbed and murdered, like in the movie. Fun times. And of course it was right, dagnabbit, and I am now a ghost.
Interestingly, the majority of the movie's budget, or at least almost all of the post-production budget, went into the sound. If you watch the Sundance cut, which is essentially the raw footage with only the barest of editing, the dialog is MUCH harder to hear, and almost all of the ambiance "depth" is gone. The filming was done on a budget camcorder, but serious money went into post-processing. It seems that that was a wise investment
As a 32 year old who was way ahead of the curve and used the internet as a 7 year old in 1998, I can assure you, almost no one knew about The Blaire Witch because of the internet 😂
But they do get louder! We can hear how she gets closer and closer to where Mike dropped the camcorder. Even if we visually can't recognize where she is (due to field of view, high contrast, confusing house layout etc) we know when she's getting closer through hearing her voice get louder and clearer
