We take you on a tour behind the scenes of our little adventure.

[su_youtube url=”http://youtu.be/CseXcAEPLnc”]

The film was shot in two days, day one being shot on a real castle, the “Ehrenburg” in southern Germany, and day two in my friend Achim’s basement. Because we had a very limited time to shoot a lot of setups, we didn’t use a boom mic on day one, and I went with the RODE Videomic Pro for reference audio, so we could redo all of the actors’ lines in post.

Day two was a lot easier, the only challenge was to make five people sitting around a table look cinematic. And—managing those five people.

In post, we had a lot of work to do the sound, and we used the RODE NT1-A for everything from ADR to foley.

The visuals were done in Adobe Premiere and After Effects (with a couple of Red Giant and Video Copilot plugins).

The music was done by my friend Philipp Stephan, who is a genius. But please don’t tell him.

A big THANK YOU to all the incredible lovely people who put their blood (yep!), sweat, and laughter into this dream project.

Think that’s cool? Vote for us at the competition website and then grab some fellow adventurers and hunt the Dark King yourself!