A sequel, "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2", was released in 2000 to negative reviews and a modest box office performance, probably due to the fact that the film abandoned the found-footage technique that had worked so well for the original.
But use the term "found footage" -- a technique that blew up with The Blair Witch Project and again with the Paranormal Activity films -- and Levinson says, no, he hadn't really thought of it.
(2) This side of the millennium however, with sleeper hits such as Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity shooting to blockbuster levels of success on relatively small budgets (3), Hollywood has gone into found footage overdrive, utilising the technique in films as apparently incompatible as space thriller Apollo 18 and T-Rex caper The Dinosaur Project.
The result is another beautiful mastery of the time-lapse technique, displaying footage of both the night sky and incredible snowy landscapes.
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Here we have footage of the famous undercarriage technique, first mastered by American troops during Operation Desert Storm.
Anybody interested in the present use of this technique should appraise footage from fluorescein surgery on the internet (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mST6oPE69dE and http://abcnews.go.com/Health/making-brain-tumors-glow-saves-lives/story?id=17076243#) and draw their own conclusions.
Many of the films have become formulaic, using the same German footage, the same static interviewing techniques.
The picture takes off from "The Blair Witch Project" and other movies that use point-of-view techniques: we see footage shot by a character's digital movie camera, security cameras, and phones.
Mr McDonnell, a clinical psychologist who viewed the footage, told the programme that basic techniques for dealing with patients with challenging behaviour were ignored.
