The Blair Witch Project - Low Budget Filming

There are multiple key features that can affect the cost of a movie.
These include:

- Set design
- Music
- Actors
- Props
- Lighting
- Cameras
- Editing
- Makeup
- Costumes
- Marketing
- Production costs

 The budget for this film was $22,000 and with the three main actors being payed $1000 a day for an 8 day shoot, we can definitely assume that they went over budget.

 When creating this film though a lot of the features that are costly were not needed, there was little set design to be done as it was all filmed outside on location, there was also very little music in the film besides the short piece at the beginning. The actors went through a tough auditioning process and the three main actors that were finally cast were paid $1000 per day. There were many props used in the film including all the camping equipment and the wooden witch symbols that were hung up in the forest. There was minimal artificial lighting used as it was all filmed primarily in real time and the only artificial lighting used was the torches during the night scenes. There were only two cameras filming everything, one smaller hand held camera and a larger slightly more professional film camera. There was minimal editing apart from putting all the separate clips together and editing the length of them to only include relevant scenes. There didn't appear to be much makeup used in the film, this was probably to make the actors look more tired, dirty and overall more like they had been lost in the woods for a few days. Costumes probably didn't cost them much either as they all wore mostly the same clothes for the whole shoot. Marketing and production costs were probably the most costly features of the film as they had to pay to release the film and advertise for it as well.