The Nightshift with RespawnMachine - Dayshift Intro

Though this streamer predominantly streams horror games after the sun has gone down, last summer during the height of the pandemic she also played around with the idea of trying to stream other games during the daytime hours. Though she wouldn’t be playing horror games in this case, I wanted to preserve the spookiness in some way, and even though all of the shots in this piece are of flowers and parks during the day, I found the emptiness of all of these pleasant scenes to be eerie. I cranked it up more at the end, by splicing in dark clips over the sunny shot of a bench swinging alone. Even though she is no longer using this video, I still like how cold it feels.

Music is “Leaving the Hotel” by Stevia Sphere and is licensed under CC BY 3.0.