How to make a ‘Nordic Noir’ film
Have you been on a trip to Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, or somewhere else that is far in the North of the planet, and has amazing, epic scenery? We’d love to edit your footage!
Have you been on a trip to Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, or somewhere else that is far in the North of the planet, and has amazing, epic scenery? We’d love to edit your footage! Ok so this post is a bit cheeky – I have to admit that we haven’t yet had the chance to make a ‘Nordic Noir’ cut of someone’s holiday videos, in fact we’ve yet to receive any footage from these far-flung locations (or from either of the Poles, for that matter).
We’ve had some fantastic snow footage, trips in Japan, New Zealand, Austria and Canada, but as yet no ‘Nordic’ footage. But we’re keen to get some! I dream of people contacting me to say ‘I’d like a Nordic Noir cut of my Scandinavian holiday footage’, or ‘Can I get a 1920’s Germanic edit of my footage from Berlin?’
The key to the look of these shows is in the colour grading, but there’s something about the light in the far-north that lends itself to getting that amazing, otherworldly look that just can’t be replicated anywhere south of the equator.
I love cutting the unusual, or giving your movie a different twist. I’ll always try to find something unique, personal or different to add into your cut that you’ll love, so I am just waiting for that person to come along who is really into Bergen, Shetland, Fargo or one of those shows, who will ask us to make them a film that uses some of that style or those ideas, or maybe someone who’s favourite movie is Metropolis, and has just been to Germany…
Is that you? If it is please Contact Us! We’re that keen, we might even give you a discount.
I do get to add little bits of ‘art’ into my videos on a regular basis though. The key is learning enough about you the client to add in these touches in a way that you’ll really love.
One of my clients mentioned his favourite films were by Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs). His film was of a cycling trip, but because he’d mentioned this I was able to add in a short sequence where the riders were strolling to a local café, and cut it to a track called ‘Pump it Up’ by Elvis Costello. My goal was to create the same sort of style as Tarantino uses in some of his films. My client picked it up right away, and loved it!
Another client had been on a European holiday in December 2018, and visited Paris with her family. They walked right through what later turned into the riots that took place that year on the Champs-Élyseés, crossing in between the police on one side, and the rioters on the other just before it all kicked off. You can read more about their adventure in our post, Holiday from Hell or Travel Movie Gold?
It’s the little touches like this that make me really love my job!
If you want a video of a trip, event, or adventure that’s something more than the ‘ordinary’, take a look at some of Our Work, and if you like what you see Get in Touch!
- Thalia Kemp is the video editor at Sonic Eye video and sound editing, in Sydney Australia