Council of Serpents

Joeri Hessels and Wouter Moons are game designers that derived from the Amsterdam Board Game Design community. With a few games under their belt, they designed Council of Serpents, a tug-of-war game with deduction elements. We wanted to give a mysterious look to this video, so we gave great emphasis into directing a great voice actress Manu Franziska Huyssen, to bring the right tone to the voice over that guided the whole trailer.

For Council of Serpents, we weren’t just responsible for the concept and direction, but on top of filming and editing the video trailer, we also made extra content, such as photoshooting and additional video edit variations that could be used as promotional material and social media content.

The trailer opens with a thematic intro made with 2D animation, and quickly transits to live-action video. We had the location darkened and treated with proper lightning, to give a studio look, as we did with Riverbed Hunt. This gave us the space to play with colored lights, candles, but also smoke, shadows and lots of props. By avoiding showing any faces, we brought that mysterious look we were looking for. In a very short time it manages to explain the multi-use cards of the game and give an overview of the game mechanics, feel and win conditions.