The Blair Witch Project - Use of Camera

When re-watching our opening sequence I noticed that the use of camera is solely focuses on our main character. It is a third person view as the audience follows her around the school while being stalked. In our entire sequence there is only a single POV shot and that is when our character sees the antagonist for a second but other than that we are watching the character in third person. Most films shots like ours as they are the easiest to convey a story however there is one psychological horror that uses POV shots through the entire film:

 

'The Blair Witch Project' is a psychological horror that was disgusted as a real story by filming in POV shots (as someone was behind the camera talking it is similar to a POV shot). It was made to look like a phone or camcorder had filmed everything and due to the muffled sound and causal acting of the actors makes the audience truly believe that the footage is real. The use of the camera is shaky to show it is handheld and 'bad' quality footage to show it was filmed on a phone or camcorder instead of a professional camera. The reason this use of the camera is so effective is because the audience can only see what the characters can see unlike our opening sequence where the antagonist is shown to the audience but not to our character. Choosing what the audience can and cannot see if important for any horror film, in 'The Blair Witch Project' everything is hidden from the audience because the camera is shaking due to the first person shots whereas in our opening we chose to show the audience the antagonist as it shows that the threat can disappear at any time. Both of these are effective for a horror film as they both can put the audience on edge as they want to see what is going on but if they do they are nervous about whether the antagonist will show up again and what they will do if they chose to show themselves to the camera.