Demo project Video & motion

Pine House: a promo film — edit, colour and sound

A promo film for a country house, made from stock footage, an animated floor plan and 3D camera moves through the model. Below the film sits its editing desk: clips, titles and transitions on the bar grid, three sound tracks, and a before/after view of the grade.

39 s: film at 24 frames per second
15: shots on the bar grid
11: sounds on three tracks
−16 LUFS: master loudness

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Pine House: a promo film — edit, colour and sound — The film plays with sound. Below it is the timeline: the cuts sit on the downbeats. “Before / after” shows the frame without the grade; M and S mute or solo the sound tracks. Hover over a clip to see where it comes from and what was done with it.

The task

Turn mixed material — stock footage, drawings and a 3D model — into one film cut to music, and show what stands behind every cut.

What I did

Cut to the music’s 112 bpm grid: cuts land on the downbeats, every half bar towards the end of the chorus
Music edit: in from the middle of a verse, the house revealed on the first beat of the chorus, a fade over two bars
Colour: each of the 15 shots balanced, then a shared forest look — a filmic curve, warm highlights, olive greens, vignette and grain
3D: three camera moves through the house model and a line pass; a wipe turns the drawing into the render
The floor plan builds up layer by layer on the beats while the camera pushes in
Sound: birds, forest, campfire and crickets per scene, footsteps and water as spot effects, the fire heard before the cut, a synthesised riser and whoosh under the wipe
Master at −16 LUFS with peaks no higher than −1.5 dBTP; titles in Russian and English

Proof

The editing desk on the page is built from the same data the film was assembled from: every clip, transition and track is visible
M and S mute and solo the real stems of the mix: music, ambience and effects
“Before / after” compares the film without and with the grade, frame for frame