Client
Kestrel Running
Runtime
45 s
Role
Edit and sound design
Aspect
16 : 9
Delivered
45 s master, 15 s and 6 s cuts, 9:16 versions
Screened
Online and in cinemas, spring 2025
The film
A runner, a beach at dawn and the tide coming in. Kestrel wanted a film about distance without a single number on screen. Forty-five seconds, no voice over.
Inside the edit
Four decisions, where they sit in the film.
The spot opens on breath, not on the sea. The waves come in on the third footstep.
The grade
Drag across the frame: the log file on the left, the graded film on the right.
Graded in DaVinci Resolve. One look across the 45 s master, the 15 s and 6 s cuts and the 9:16 versions.
The cut
Three mornings on the beach gave us six hours of running. The brief asked for energy, so the first cut was fast and forgettable.
We slowed it to the pace of a long run, and let the sound carry the speed instead.
Directed by
Clara Nunes
Produced by
Kestrel in-house
Cinematography
Tomás Reis
Edited by
Teo Marín
Sound design
Teo Marín
