During the creation of Tales from Black Manor, we designed several ALT posters for different episodes. These were either designed to be the original poster and we decided to go a different route, or the edit for the episode itself changed and a new design was more fitting.
We’re so excited to have completed the Tales from Black Manor Series!
Tales From Black is comprised of 3 Series that details the lives of a family intertwined with Death itself. This has been such a wonderful project to work on! What started out as a strange experiment has become an entire history of intertwined tales and stories.
You can watch all episodes right now!
Episode 1: Legend Has It
Episode 2: The Book of Death
Episode 3: How to Live Forever
Episode 4: Alice & The Watch
Episode 7: Welcome to the 80s
Episode 5: Mister Winter
Episode 8: Mommy’s Little Star
Episode 6: The Land of Death and Dreams
Episode 9: Heart of War
Episode 12: The Accidental Death
Episode 10: Dark Days
Episode 13: The Keepers
Episode 11: Miss Nobody
Episode 14: The End of All Things
Episode 14: “The End of All Things”
When Annabelle Black goes venturing off into the forgotten East Corridor of Black Manor, she finds something new. It’s a simple glass orb - but when she touches it - she can see everything. She can see the beginning, middle, and end of time, and lurking there is the Final Death.
An Epilogue
The End of All Things was designed to feel like an epilogue to the series, one last moment that comes even after the final episode and tells the death of Black Manor and maybe even the entire world.
Directed By: Nick + Lexie
Written By: Nick Trivundza
Produced By: Nick + Lexie Trivundza
An Adventure Company Film
Annabelle Black: Asher Willis
Music By Orchestralis
Copyright © Adventure Company MMXXIV
Check out the First Look for Tales from Black Manor: The End of All Things!
Episode 14 “The End of All Things”
When Annabelle Black goes venturing off into the forgotten East Corridor of Black Manor, she finds something new. It’s a simple glass orb - but when she touches it - she can see everything. She can see the beginning, middle, and end of time, and lurking there is the Final Death.
Episode 13: “The Keepers”
In the tower of Black Manor, the Keeper guards the manors darkest secrets. Amidst catacombs, graves, and the Book of Death, he safeguards the legacy, offering others eternal life at the cost of a deadly bargain.
The Final Episode
As we mentioned earlier, we’re big Mike Flannigan fans. The House of Usher was absolutely incredible, but we also really loved Midnight Mass. This was a big inspiration when we began to put together The Keepers. It impacted both the melancholy tone and the beauty of the Catholic Church images.
Credits
Directed By: Nick + Lexie
Written By: Nick Trivundza
Produced By: Nick + Lexie Trivundza
An Adventure Company Film
The Keeper: Daniel L McCullen
Mrs Asher: Charlotte Marie Dupont
Music By Orchestralis
Copyright © Adventure Company MMXXIV
Check out the First Look for Tales from Black Manor: The Keepers!
Episode 13 “The Keepers”
In the tower of Black Manor, the Keeper guards the manors darkest secrets. Amidst catacombs, graves, and the Book of Death, he safeguards the legacy, offering others eternal life at the cost of a deadly bargain.
Episode 12: “The Accidental Death”
Life's unforeseen endings take center stage in The Accidental Death. From car crashes and electrocutions, to fatal distractions, delve into a realm of unintended fatalities.
The Grim
For the final appearance of The Land of Death and Dreams we also include nightmares. We were really inspired by Mike Flannigan’s The House of Usher on this one. Specifically for the jester.
Directed By: Nick + Lexie
Written By: Nick Trivundza
Produced By: Nick + Lexie Trivundza
An Adventure Company Film
The Grim: Christoper Caine
Music By Orchestralis
Copyright © Adventure Company MMXXIV
Check out the First Look for Tales from Black Manor: The Accidental Death!
Episode 12 “The Accidental Death”
Life's unforeseen endings take center stage in The Accidental Death. From car crashes and electrocutions, to fatal distractions, delve into a realm of unintended fatalities.
Check out this cool new work for AFSCME!
Episode 11: “Miss Nobody”
Spreadsheets. TV. Noodles. Try not to cry. Go to bed. Wait for the sweet release of death. Wake up. Do it again. And again. Endless hours, same routine. Until one night something different happens. An intrusion offers an unexpected twist.
Getting Lost
For Miss Nobody, we began to think about seeing some of these stories from different perspectives. Our inspiration was the TV series Lost. This was one of the first times I had ever seen a series go in depth on a completely different perspective and we wanted to give that a try with Miss Nobody who had previously been seen in Dark Days.
Credits
Directed By: Nick + Lexie
Written By: Nick Trivundza
Produced By: Nick + Lexie Trivundza
An Adventure Company Film
Miss Nobody: Lily Lacroix
Oliver Black: Silas McGreggor
Music By Orchestralis
“Own It” By Jasmine J Walker
Copyright © Adventure Company MMXXIV
Check out the First Look for Tales from Black Manor: Miss Nobody!
Episode 11 “Miss Nobody”
Spreadsheets. TV. Noodles. Try not to cry. Go to bed. Wait for the sweet release of death. Wake up. Do it again. And again. Endless hours, same routine. Until one night something different happens. An intrusion offers an unexpected twist.
Check out this brand new Work for Unite Here!
Check out this motion graphics montage of some of the work we created for Amalgamated Group.
Return to Shallow Grave
When we first began working on Tales From Black Manor, Series 2 - we were really inspired by the early films of Danny Boyle. Specifically Shallow Grave and Trainspotting and we wanted to create something with that feeling. Alice & The Watch was originally written to feel this way - but that ended up changing story and leaned much more towards David Fincher for tone. With Dark Days, we were finally able to get back to some of that early inspiration.
Check out another great motion graphics montage! This is some of the cool work we designed for RDC.
Check out this motion graphics montage of the work we created for Reflective Democracy!
In June Unite Here held their first convention in 5 Years. The convention celebrated over 100 years of the union’s formation. We were asked to create a super cool intro video for the convention as well as a documentary that highlighted the unions foundation and the immigrants that came to New York.
Check out the First Look for Tales from Black Manor: Dark Days!
Episode 10: “Dark Days”
At Black Manor, death is just an option. Uncle Oliver teaches 'Bloody Mary' the ropes and she’ll do whatever it takes to keep her immortality and her pretty face.
The Alchemist Book Series Continues!
This last spring we were thrilled to work on the campaign for the latest release of the best selling book series the Alchemist! The spots feature some wonderful voice work from Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons and Colin McLean.
GeekTyrant is one of our favorite websites and we recently had the chance to do an interview with them! We chat about the making of the BackSpace Trilogy, our inspirations, as well as some of our favorite parts of making the film as well as some of the toughest. We also chat about our favorite movies.
Here’s an excerpt:
What is the best advice you've ever received as a filmmaker and what would you like to say to new filmmakers?
A HUGE inspiration for us - and so many other filmmakers - has been Robert Rodriguez on not waiting for “Hollywood” and just getting out there and making a movie. His book “Rebel Without A Crew” was a great read. A few years into our filmmaking careers we were asked to appear on his El Rey Network series to discuss filmmaking and it was such a great experience! For new filmmakers we say - don’t wait - get out there and make something, even if its not perfect. The fun, adventure, and skills you’ll pick up will be worth it!
