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      I think that both of the quotes apply in someway or another to The Blair Witch Project because the movie is trying to be a realism film as well as bring out the auroras of the actors and the landscape as well.
      The first quote applies to the movie because, I fell the movie is trying to achieve the aura, both through the characters in the movie and the woods that they are in, even though the first quote says is not possible to do through a camera lenses. I think they come very close to achieving the aura of the landscape. While watching the movie, you really get an eerie feeling of the woods; from the voodoo dolls in the trees to the rocks out side the tent when they wake up in the morning, to the noises at night and the shaking of the tent that happens one night. This makes it feel like they’re not just in some random woods somewhere, but give the viewer the felling that they really are in woods that are haunted of some sort, and give the woods a personality, and almost gives them an aura. I think that the filmmakers, come very close, and maybe even achieve the aura of the woods, the distinctive quality of the woods. We also see characters personality though the movie, at the attempt to replicate the actors’ auras. In the beginning of the movie we get a little incite onto the characters personalities, but starting about halfway through the movie, when they all realize that they are lost, we get to see their personalities when they start to break down. We don’t quite get to see the different characters auras, but this is a curtail step in the viewer getting closer to getting a glimpse of their aura. 
      The film also relates to the second quote because of the films goals (and success to some extent) to create realism and give the viewer a since that it could happen to them. As it states in the second quote “… the cameraman consists of multiple fragments which are assembled under a new law”, which is exactly how the Blair Which project (and any other movie for that matter is shot). In a movie in general, there are thousands of frames filmed and they are piece together to form a story. In the Blair Witch project, it takes it a step further; it’s shot from a first person point of view, which makes it feel even more realistic it could be the viewer who’s in that place. This gives the viewer an even grater since of realism because it feels like it’s being seen through their eyes. Another way, in which this is done in the film, is how there are day and night scenes. This splits up the film into to sections, and two different types of “emotions” of the film. Both the day and night scenes are both intense for different reasons. The day scenes are intense, because we see how the three people start to break down and panic because they realize they are lost, as well as the things they come across that makes them believe even more that the myth is in fact true. The night scenes are also intense because of the events that take place, such as the weird noises that happen and the shaking of the tent, etc. This is another way in how the fragments are assembled in different ways to give the viewer a since of reality. This goes to show that both the first quote, and the second quote both apply to the movie, The Blair Witch Project.