Okay. Trying to finish up 2009. A few more wedding videos in Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma and outlying areas. Then I moved on to some other really cool projects.
Toward the tail end of summer ’09, I was the wedding videographer for Amber and Justin’s wedding. The wedding was at a beautiful historic house in the Sumner area, and it could not have been a more beautiful day. Here is the Highlight Reel from the wedding.
I did the videography on a couple more weddings that year, but I think it’s about time to move this blog on to what I consider to be my single most monumental achievement of 2009. Next blog – Mutually Assured Productions and The Van Job.
Okay, it’s been well over a year since I’ve written on the blog here. So I’m going to start way back when I stopped updating it, and spend the next few weeks covering everything I missed; bringing it up to date. Sometimes this commercial and wedding video production gig here in Olympia, Seattle, and Tacoma keeps me so busy I don’t always have time to update. Wow, what an understatement!
Starting with Jasmin and Louis. June 27th, 2009. Jasmin and Louis booked early, which is great. Their wedding was at St. Ignacio’s Chapel, which is on the campus of Seattle City U. Beautiful church, really amazing. I loved shooting there, and would love to do it again. The architect of the church described the theme of his design as “7 bottles of light.” It’s really pretty.
Jasmin and Louis’s wedding was the first opportunity I had to utilize the camera I had just purchased; Panasonic’s HMC-150 AVCCAM. This is an HD camera that takes advantage of a relatively new video compression coded called AVCHD. After many months of researching, this was the HD camera I decided to buy. Panasonic had earned my loyalty years before with their DVX-100 line of cameras. Although the final product went out in standard definition, the HD stuff looks far superior, even on a DVD.
Anyway, here’s a couple of video clips from Jasmin and Louis’s wedding! The first clip is the pre-ceremony montage. This was shot exclusively with the HMC-150.
Next is the post-ceremony montage. This portion was shot with a combination of the DVX and HMC. You can actually see the difference between the two cameras when it switches. This is primarily due to adjusting the aspect ratio of the two cameras to match up properly.
It’s kinda how I feel. Still churning out the end of summer editing backlog. Sure doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for this blog, so I figured I would go ahead and get one done while waiting for some footage to render. Mostly I’m just going to post clips of some of the stuff I’ve finished in the past month or so.
Mark and Jennifer’s wedding was great. The setting at a friends house on Henderson inlet was a beautiful location, and the sun gave everything a golden kind of hue that day. It kind of colored everything in a way that looks great, really almost film-like…
Hey Ken!
We just watched the DVD and everything came out sooo good! Thank you so much, you were really able to get a feeling of the day without actually being there.
Mark and Jennifer -
Next is Omayra and James. A little back story -
Quite a while back, little over a year or so, I was starting to get really serious about this videography as a business thing. After producing, directing, writing and editing a TV show for the 8 years I did it, I was determined to make this my living. No one was stopping me but myself.
My calendar wasn’t exactly full. Video Production was still a supplemental portion of my life. I needed to make industry contacts. I needed to network.
Firing off e-mails and phone calls to wedding planners and venues and flower shops and bridal boutiques yielded less than stellar results. Needless to say, there was frustration.
One day I drove past “Omayra’s Bridal Boutiqe” on Capitol, just south of Linwood in Tumwater. I decided to stop in and introduce myself. Things went well, and on September 3rd of this year, I filmed her and James’ wedding.
Here’s the clip -
Omayra loved the video so much that we will be giving DVD’s of the wedding out as promotional material for her and myself at Omayra’s Bridal Boutique!
Next is a couple that met at the University of Washington in an engineering program. Yongjun, Dingding and I met to discuss their wedding videography, and everything moved forward. Yongjun and Dingding are both from China, and their wedding was fantastic. I’m always excited about any opportunity to experience cultures other than my own. Yongjun had requested I film from the front of the church, facing the audience. This is not my usual shooting location, so I was a tad worried about lighting, but overall everything came out great. It was a lot of fun, and another beautiful wedding in Seattle!
Well I think that’s about it for this time. I have quite a few more wedding videos in the edit backlog, a couple of Quinceanera’s to complete, a benefit golf tournament, the Sweet Adelines concert, oh wow. What a workload I’ve shouldered! Yeah, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, but I gotta keep crankin. Churning. Like a factory. A high quality factory of course, as you can see for yourself above!
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a blog here, since August 19th. Almost a month. Things have been busy!
I’d like to share a few clips of one of the more recent wedding videos I’ve done. Tim and Candice were married July 19th in Edmonds WA. The video is wonderful, I really like it anyways. It surely ranks among my best work, and marks the first implementation of my recently purchased Sennheiser Evolution G2 wireless mics. These things are amazing. I’ll do a post dedicated to them when I get time.
Here is the pre-ceremony montage…
Candice and Tim chose a couple of Jack Johnson songs from their collection to use for two of the montages. I love Jack Johnson’s tunes, it’s hard to find happier more upbeat music. The songs really fit the vibe of Candice and Tim’s wedding. Everyone was so happy!
After the ceremony, this song isn’t Jack, but is equally as awesome in my humble opinion!
There were a lot of shots incorporated into the Highlight Reel that were geared toward the “Documentary” package I plan to start promoting next season. I’ll likely do a blog about that to, time permitting of course!
Here is Candice and Tim’s “Highlight Reel.”
Hearing from clients that they are happy with the work I have done is always a great feeling. Candice had this to say about her video -
“Yes, we received the DVD(s) and I absolutely love it! I am so extremely glad and thankful people were able to talk me into a professional videographer! It is definitely an investment that I will never regret and cherish forever! It scares me to think I was fine to go without a video! I watched them when they first got here with Tim and his parents. Everyone loved the montages and the highlight at the end! The music went perfectly like you said it would and I especially think the part where I was done putting on some lipstick was really neat as the music went “pop” as I smacked my lips! (I think you know what I am talking about).”
Sweet! To quote a famous Hannibal – “I love it when a plan comes together!”
Once again I’d like to offer my congratulations to Tim and Candice! They are great together and I wish them many happy years on whatever roads they travel.
Thanks for reading!
