Table of Content
Short Film
The Haunted Valley
Logline: Idiots go out looking for a Monster and find one
The short film is kicked off with characters investigating a monster, and we give the viewer the opportunity to do their own investigation. With hopefully with better luck.
Thought the use of being a part of an ARG. So you can look through this description and the website page to find clues about what happens next.
Website page: Mini Maestro
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Credits
Bandit - Concept art
Campbell - Director, VFX editor, ETC,
Luc - Monster's bio, Writer,
Oscar - Voice actor, Drone shot,
Paddy - Music composer, Podcast Voice actor,
Rae - Poster / Thumbnail design, Voice actor,
Thomas - Logo design, Radio show Director,
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A special thanks to all involved in the making of this short film.
Mini Maestro,
Shannon Devaux,
SAE for bringing the team together,
Kiss the Cook Diner for sponsoring this short film.
& thank you for stopping by.
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No A.I was used in the making of this short film.
Press Kit
The image is clickable to go to zoom in on PDF & links work.
Poster
Marketing
Team Brif Website
The image is clickable to go to the website.
The Behind the scenes, the Berif website for the team.
This is where people can see an overview of their roles and how it affects others, timeline, breakdowns, inspirations and promo.
Mixed Media Investigation
A.R.G & Timeline
This town map was created to be used as a background asset for the mini maestro webpage and it’s another thing to make the world feel alive and a real place.
Wendigo Note. 1.
Wendigo Note. 2.
The windigo got notes to help it seem to have some awareness. It’s using a weapon, wendigos are known for eating people, and it’s wearing a kiss the cook apron as a dark sense of humour. He was a monster before turning supernatural.
It also helps diversify the mixed media, adding to documents you have to read, not just sit down and listen to.
The windigo’s model has details that reference other parts of the story, as well as having marks that are from it’s history.
This happens before the short film, but it sets up some stuff.
In this website, you can learn more about the town, the people who live there, and It’s going on. You can also branch out here to other parts of the narrative on this website.
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Kiss the cooked logo done by Thomas.
Campbell etc.
Voice of Stoney Creek Radioshow Website.
This website is more of a companion piece for hosting the radio show. You can learn more about the town, the people who live there, and It’s going on. You can also branch out here to other parts of the narrative on this website. ​​
More info coming soon.
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Logo made by Rae,
Some background assets collected from Shutterstock,
Writer Thomas,
Campbell etc.
This is a short of the morning after the events of the short film. That’s meant to drive intrigue.
Who Goes There Podcast Website.
This podcast website has secrets that hint to the end of the story at the moment.
More coming soon.
You can also branch out here to other parts of the narrative on this website.
Who Goes There Podcast,
Paddy voice actor,
Luke writing the fake police document that lays out the ending for now…
Campbell etc.
Break Downs
Animation
With the animation near I tried to capture some of them between human gorilla and a bit of K9 in the running. I filmed reference for it where I had tied sticks to my arms and acted out the motions. safe to say I'm not putting the video on anywhere.
Camera Colour Grade
Would the colour grading there were three main things I wanted to hit. On top of trying to recreate a night by doing a sky replacement on top of making it darker.
Number one, what the camera would actually see when filming at night. So that entailed adding film grain. Create my own Focus maps to have things closer to the camera the easier to see than others.
Number two, what the human eye would see at night. It is slowly but surely, the viewer can see more and more in the dark as the camera’s “eye” adjusts. Similar to how a real eye would in the dark, with the bonus of not being too harsh when cutting to the flashback in the day.
Number 3, and to make it stylised. The character's red jacket in reality would be a dark grey, but to make him stand out in the dark blue. It is red, making it easier for the eye to track him, and in a way putting us in the shoes of the monster with blood in the water.
Oscar used assets that he was provided to set up the a drone shot in Unreal and engine 5 because it delivered the most effective recreational lighting. More info on the brif website.
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We did something similar to how the Batman filmed the wing suit scene. Where they filmed it similar to how real life wingsuits are filmed to give it that air of believability and a lot of people actually believed they did that stunt.
To give it that authentic drone shot feel we actually had a 3D model for a drone attached to the camera and when flying up you can see it’s shadow in the bottom right corner.
