This one isn’t finished just yet. There is a lot of subtle timing that needs to be done before I consider it finished.
“Cassandra” by Thomas Bergersen + “The Smallest Empire” from Corridor Digital
Imagine a tiny empire in the palm of your hands, just like one in a video game. I set this award-winning short film from Digital Corridor to the epic music of Thomas Bergersen. Every other video I’ve ever edited has between a few dozen and several dozen cuts; this one has four. Serendipitous is the […]
“Airglow” by Mark Petrie + “Ouro” by Eva Jiahui Gao & Pierre-Jean le Moel
This delightfully dark short was created by students, believe it or not. Because of this, I had to tweak a couple of things with the animation to make it flow a little better. But thankfully the rest of it is beautiful and well animated. I don’t point this out because I think they had sub-par […]
“Ironbark” by Mark Petrie + Shadow Fight 3
It’s hard to believe that such a powerful trailer is meant for a glorified mobile game, but who am I to complain? The song and the video have nearly identical rises and falls, so they fit together nicely here. My favorite aspect of it is watching the ending slip into slow motion right as the […]
“Uncharted Realms” by Mark Petrie + “Fortress” by Dimitriy Fedotov
This haunting short film is a variation on another film by the same creator. It imagines the world after warfare has been completely automated for decades, and war machines are all that’s left of humanity. The soundtrack is equally haunting in its ethereal nature and almost lackadaisical meandering through what appears to be a melody […]