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Thoughts, insights and practical advice on weddings from a filmmaker’s point of view - with the occasional detour into film.
WEDDINGS AND THE CINEMA OF THE REAL
I’m forever shocked when I speak to videographers and they tell me that they don’t watch many movies. Not because I’m a cinephile snob (more of a dork than a snob), and not because I desperately want to have someone else I can ramble to about one of my oldest passions - but because, at the heart of it, we’re filmmakers. Storytellers and visual craftspeople who’s job it is is to record the images of the now to preserve for later.
So why not go to the source?
PUTTING TOGETHER A TEAM
What’s the first word that coms to mind when I say “wedding planning”? Is it stress? Hate to tell you this, but it should be. Why? Because you’re about to embark on, what is ostensibly a full time job. Event planners, co-ordinators, the little magic pixies with clipboards and super human speed? They get paid to do what you’re about to do. And they have all the connections. They have the contacts, they know the people, the venues, the vendors, the pitfalls and all the other little planning gremlins to steer clear of.
You, however, are starting from zero. Less than zero.
And that’s okay. I’m here to get you through.