For the second year in a row I made some Halloween themed bumpers for a friend’s film society, Channel M. Last year I made a simple 10-second 3D scene inspired by the blood elevator from The Shining.
This year I stepped it up and made four whole videos, 40 seconds each. I used free stock footage from Pexels, more than half of it from cottonbro studio. Music came from Pixabay and Freesound.org, as well as sounds from the latter.
These were a ton of fun to make after a few weeks working on a corporate video. Each took roughly a day to make and let me explore different techniques and aesthetics.
Enjoy!
Bloody Mess (2023)
The original from 2023. This one took a whole lot of experimentation and rendering time to get right. Lots of fun and lessons learned.
Sounds for this came from FreeSoundHub.
Ghost in the Field
Footage for this came from Monstera Production on Pexels. Music and sounds from Freesound.org: ghost sounds, burner, walking in grass, crickets
Occult
Footage for this came from cottonbro studio, Engin Akyurt, Dan Cristian Pădureț, Tom Fisk, and Pixabay on Pexels. The music is my own remix of Aggressive Metal (Sinister) by BrightestAvenue on Pixabay.
Zombies
All footage comes from cottonbro studio on Pexels. The music is my remix of Lirivial - Никогда (instrumental) by Gishtall with an almost imperceptible Halloween Organ by Aries Beats behind it.
Killer Clown
All footage comes from cottonbro studio on Pexels. The music is a mix of ghost pianos from amliebsch on Freesound.org, Last Hero by Diamond Tunes, and Zapatista garage punk by JoshuaHudesMusic on Pixabay.