The Grimm Title Series Reimagination
Nafisa Sadia
Motion Designer
Video Editor
Adobe After Effects
ChatGPT
Midjourney
The Grimm TV show is a spinoff TV show inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales; fit right into what I wanted to make a trailer of. In the show, The Grimm are humans with special abilities to see people who are part mythical creatures. The animal part of these ‘Wesen’ usually stay concealed due to fear of persecution from
The Grimms and other Wesen who were in a higher ranking in the animal chain. The Grimms had a history of working under Royals or as individuals on personal quests to learn more about the world and the hidden mysteries, often ended the lives of Wesen that they deemed to be harmful, for that Grimms are feared among the Wesen.
The main character is Detective Nick Burkhardt, who developed his Grimm powers quite late in life, so did not get accultured to any Grimm traditions and while he was living his life as a police detective started seeing strange animal faces in people who seemed to be terrified of him, this sets him to discovering who he his after his aunt tells him part of his history and gets killed. The Grimm follows Detective Burkhardt solving strange cases in his city while a larger story surrounding The Royals, Wesen and The 7 keys to a treasure (one of the keys Nick
inherited from his aunt right before she was murdered) starts to unfold.
In the creative approach for the trailer, I wanted to make it a ‘must’ to incorporate
some medieval/ ancient aspects to blend seamlessly in the modern era in which the
show is based. So, I decided on what parts I could blend in to the modern theme, of
which some burnt books, an old map and Wesen encyclopedia containing
calligraphy and Wesen drawings would fit into a Sherlock Holmes style, where I
could use investigative-esque filters like black and white forensic effect to add to
the modern feel of the show and after that, the use of old map would not look
pretentious or historical but more like a dossier. I wanted to incorporate how the tv
show makes the ‘mythical’ aspects with mythical like drawings resemble to be part
of the ‘covered’ aspects of society, much like murder cases, cults, cannibalism etc.
not hidden secrets/ folklore stories or conspiracies; something rather not talked
about but not ‘hidden’; aspects shrouded in mystery but not treated like absolute
dark secrets. This was the part that I found most difficult: how to make mythical
Wesen be seen as strange, unnerving like aliens and criminal activities; but not
fairytale or ghost stories, etc.
The image assets used were generated by Dall E 2 AI.
Music: Mysterious Celesta | Royalty-free Music - Pixabay
The project was made in After Effects.
