One possibility would be to simply zoom in the footage to get it a tighter two-shot, hiding the torches and (most) of the bridge.
If you watch this crummy version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hthKf434YRU
(from 7:36 onward)
...with this aspect ratio, a lot of the setting just looks like "ambiguous forest area" when it's tighter.