The Blair Witch Project raises some very interesting questions concerning how art captures reality. The two quotes from art in the age of mechanical reproduction address many of these questions. The most interesting question the quotes raised (in my opinion) concerned the camera capturing the aura of both the actor and the settings. I think it is safe to say that the blair witch project is not an attempt to recreate reality strictly based on it's subject matter. I think the film often gets mistaken as an attempt to recreate reality due to the films success in capturing the aura of both the characters and the setting of the film. When watching the blair witch project, one feels as if they are a part of the film, they put themselves in the place of the characters, and think about what they would do in the situation. The Blair Witch Project captured this aura successfully by actually putting the actors in the situation of being lost in the woods with cameras. This made for an incredibly realistic representation of both the characters and the setting. The film would surely would have been far less successful if the movie was made with a large crew in a hollywood studio.