Shot on an original budget of $35,000–60,000, the film had a final cost of $200,000–750,000 after post-production edits. About 20 hours of footage was shot, which was edited down to 82 minutes. The film entered production in October 1997, with the principal photography taking place in Maryland for eight days. A casting call advertisement in Backstage magazine was prepared by the directors Donahue, Williams and Leonard were cast. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. The purportedly 'recovered footage' is the film the viewer sees. The three disappear, but their equipment and footage are discovered a year later.

Williams, and Joshua Leonard-who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers- Heather Donahue, Michael C. The films first DVD release was on October 22nd, 1999.The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. The film cost $60,000 to make and grossed $248 million at the box office, making it the highest-grossing independent movie of all-time, until it was surpassed in 2002. However, the cameraman forgot to pan left during a running sequence and the scene was never re-shot. At one point in the film, the Blair Witch was supposed to be seen on camera. Although effective, it also caused some theatergoers to experience nausea and vomit during the screening. The film is heavily credited with popularizing the found-footage technique. They even stole the town sign a reported three times. Immediately following it's release, the town of Burkittsville, which the cemetery scene was filmed at, became overrun with fans of the film. It told more of the backstory of the three missing students. Just prior to it's theatrical release, a forty-four minute improvised documentary titled Curse of the Blair Witch was even released, to further insinuate this strategy.

The film was marketed as a true story which added to it's appeal. It stars Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams as the three unfortunates who fall victim to the Blair Witch. The film took eight days to shoot, and roughly eight months to edit, due to there being roughly twenty hours of raw footage to sort through. It was directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Filming locations include Adamstown, Beallsville, Brookville, Burkittsville, Germantown and Granite, Md. The Blair Witch Project was released into theaters on July 14th, 1999.

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