My Hollywood System

Chapter 21:

Chapter 21:

In the cemetery, Josh was shooting Heather as she stood with a dramatic expression on her face. Taking a deep breath like she was a little nervous because of Josh shooting her, she began.

“Much like a small town anywhere. No more than twenty families laid their roots here over two hundred years ago. Many of whom remain, either on this hill or in the town below.”

Josh took a step towards Heather to get a close-up shot as she continued.

“There is an unusually high number of children laid to rest here.”

The camera moved away from her face as Josh focused on the headstones around the cemetery.

As he turned it back to Heather, she continued.

“Most of them passed in the 1940’s. Yet no one in the town seems to recall anything unusual about this time. To us anyway. Yet legend tells a different story. One whose evidence is all around us, etched in stone.”

Another shot of an angel statue was taken, and that’s when the scene came to an end.

...

In Josh’s car, Heather handled the camera and shot the front view as the car moved on the road.

Although the view was of the road, the camcorder clearly recorded Heather’s excited voice.

“Yeah! Yeehaww! Well, we have shot the first scene! The cemetery scene, the opening is shot!”

She turned the camera towards Josh, and he smiled before showing her a handful of ruined and crumpled 16mm film, facing it towards the camera.

“Ahh this is our salad,” Heather called out.

“This is our souvenir.”

“Yes, this is our souvenir from our very first shot, of our very first scene on 16 millimetres. And we are proud of this salad.”

She chuckled, and the sound of laughter filled the car as the three young filmmakers moved ahead in their journey.

The next stop was asking questions from the people living in this town.

“Oh?” The old man smiles with a hint of surprise.

“Oh, have you heard of the Blair Witch?”

“Oh yeah, that’s an old, old, old story.”

The old man nodded his head.

They changed the camcorder to the 16mm one and started shooting for real.

“I remember Mister Parr was an old hermit.”

“Right.”

“He lived up on the mountain; he had a place up there and had been up there for a long, long time.”

The old man said, and Heather nodded in understanding. Josh and Micheal, who were standing in the back, kept an eye on the people who were giving them looks.

***

After the old man, the trio found a woman holding a baby and started interviewing her.

She was wearing black glasses; Heather pointed the camera towards her as she started asking her questions.

“Have you heard of the Blair Witch?”

“Several times.”

The woman replied in a matter of fact manner. Heather continued her questioning.

“Several times, what was the first incident?”

“Well, I’d heard stories about her from people and neighbours and stuff like that. But also I saw a documentary on the Discovery Channel or something like that once, about her, about ghosts and legends in Maryland.”

After that, they cut the scene to a man who was wearing a hat backwards.

“Yeah, it’s a story my grandma used to talk about a lot, to get us in the bed early. She used to say that if you stay up for too long, the Blair Witch will come and getcha.”

***

– .....will come and getcha.

Will and Jeffery, who have been looking at the situation from afar, were listening to every interview from the walkie talkie.

A wide smile was hung up on Will’s face as he saw how well everything was going.