7D Wedding highlight by Stillmotion

Jim Klatt said:
A documentary style wedding can be tremendously interesting and emotionally layered. ... I have seen a few that spent the majority of the time around interviews, understanding the origins of the relationship, and using the wedding day highights in longer form, rather than music-video timed edits.
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What you see here is just an SDE, and an SDE of highlights. Do you think this is the only video they deliver for $10K? The also shoot a love story, interviews (with the couple and relatives and guests), trash the dress bit, the whole shebang. They just don't upload the whole thing online for different reasons, and I would assume that privacy of the couple being one of them.

The highlights video is just the cherry on the top for easy consuming by less intimately related people. Of course, it also sells SM to potential clients, but this is secondary methinks.
 
I know what is, I had my own business doing this very thing for many years. I have a great understanding of where these people are coming from. I took a similar approach, albiet from a smaller budget.

The "love story" and "trash the dress" are what brides come asking for. They also want to see the highlights, etc. It's like crack! :)

After being in the wedding video business, I realized that I only wanted to hire a photographer, and an artist friend who made films. I told them to do anything they want, but please don't be conventional. I cannot watch highlight films or trash the dress bits anymore, my stomach hurts too much...
 
Michael Olsen said:
Unless you are tricky. Remember this video was shot by one individual and relatively limited equipment.
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Then i guess the one individual has a list of shots he needs to get, and has been to a sufficient number of weddings that he knows what needs to be shot at what points as to not miss anything.

very talented.
 
Cranky said:
What you see here is just an SDE, and an SDE of highlights. Do you think this is the only video they deliver for $10K? The also shoot a love story, interviews (with the couple and relatives and guests), trash the dress bit, the whole shebang. They just don't upload the whole thing online for different reasons, and I would assume that privacy of the couple being one of them.
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Yeah I've wondered on this too, especially for $10K
 
sblfilms said:
Otis, I thought you quit the boards forever?
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It's Out Of Topic (no dress trashing, really, please continue to next post) but since you insist, I said that I will not post on the site as long as the Sparta thread is on the news section because the project didn't look like it deserved being presented as news. I thought dvxuser should check a little on a project before it presents itself on the news section, especially when the thread was linking and advertising. In the process I was told that the moderators had indeed locked the thread at some point, so dvxuser did do something about it. Then the people behind the project stopped posting news about their now cancelled (edit: Los angeles) week event. They also did not post anything about the heavy compression in their "uncompressed TIF" output samples which many people noticed.

In any case, this has nothing to do with this thread. I thought the cinematic bride trend combined with the wonderfully shot stillmotion videos could stimulate some interesting discussion. It's always good to hear the opinion of working professionals on what they like and how that mixes with the client needs.
 
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octopi_films said:
You can downtalk the whole cinematic wedding video idea as much as you like, but when it comes down to it, that is what most people want. Evidence is in the companies like Stillmotion, Cinematic Bride, Jason Magbanua...the list goes on. They are doing a lot of weddings for a lot of money and people are paying it and wanting it. It really is a mix of beautiful cinema and documentary.
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Absolutely people want it. People also want to watch Transformers. And for some reason, Transformers 2. Probably Transfomers 3 through 9, and the musical.

Speaking of Michael Bay, I watched this vid with the sound down. I can only assume the audio track was Aerosmith 'Don't Want to Miss a Thing'? I'm sure the next step for this style of wedding video is 3D; expect a flyover of F15s and explosions carefully tracked in.

Lovely to look at, the guy responsible is incredibly, amazingly talented, but man, I just want a rich benefactor to give him a sack of cash and say 'Go make what you want'.

Between this, Bloom's faces and Perya, I'm utterly, hoplessly sold on the 7D. Damn you Canon. As an aside, now that they've got this level of shooters on-board to do nice PR films for them, what next? Can't be long before they're knocking on Soderberg's door saying 'Psst, fancy making a short film?' Can't wait to see Nikon's response in 6 months time - wedding video's by Chris Cunningham.
 
Between this, Bloom's faces and Perya, I'm utterly, hoplessly sold on the 7D. Damn you Canon. As an aside, now that they've got this level of shooters on-board to do nice PR films for them, what next? Can't be long before they're knocking on Soderberg's door saying 'Psst, fancy making a short film?' Can't wait to see Nikon's response in 6 months time - wedding video's by Chris Cunningham.
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Of course they will. That is what big companies do with their new products, have them tested by the top guys in the industry. Nothing new there.
 
f64manray said:
If you have the super power of being able to think like the "average" woman, you sir, have a gift and have come from a distant planet to help the men of earth.
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Hey, I'm only talking about stereotypes here, which (unfortunately) have a lot of truth behind them. The stereotypical bourgeois (or bourgeois-minded) woman wants to spend many thousands of dollars on a lavish, large-scale dream wedding, and this is exactly the type that would desire wedding videos in the style of this one.

The women who don't care about fashion and pomp, who don't spend hours ogling wedding magazines and planning every minute detail, are the ones more likely to be interested in docu-style videos. For them, being surrounded by their loved ones is what they want to remember the most, and what they want to record for posterity, rather than the glamor of the event. And that's why they would prefer a documentary, instead of a moving Vogue photo-spread.

Now that's not to say that one group is more shallow than another. It's just a matter of different priorities, and each perspective is respectable in its own way.
 
I know Patrick personally, and we've worked on quite a few projects together. The front page over at www.cinevate.com has two of Stillmotion's video's front and center. We also have close contact with Canon Canada.

I can guarantee this is 100% not a plant, and is 100% a result of Patrick's talent, drive and relentless work ethic. It's no accident that their work sees 25 000 to 40 000 plays every week on their Vimeo channel. We work very closely with Patrick so the DSLR rig they use, the Pegasus mini-dolly system (which Patrick asked us to develop!), Titan Mattebox, hand grips etc, etc, are very much geared to Patrick's style of work which requires very rapid transitions from slider, monopod, steadicam and our Proteus DSLR shoulder rig.

You'll also see Amina's work (the still side of Stillmotion) featured in our first and all upcoming "Shooter Showcase" features. Both Amina and Patrick spearhead the creative drive of Stillmotion and their very dedicated team. They work ridiculously long hours and do a ton of work for little or no pay. What you're seeing is not silly hype...it's just hard work, dedication and talent.
 
I've always wanted a woman who would let me spend $30K on a killer short film rather than a mediocre wedding. Luckily, being a broke ass crew dude, I haven't had that moment of truth.

ydgmdlu said:
Hey, I'm only talking about stereotypes here, which (unfortunately) have a lot of truth behind them. The stereotypical bourgeois (or bourgeois-minded) woman wants to spend many thousands of dollars on a lavish, large-scale dream wedding, and this is exactly the type that would desire wedding videos in the style of this one.

The women who don't care about fashion and pomp, who don't spend hours ogling wedding magazines and planning every minute detail, are the ones more likely to be interested in docu-style videos. For them, being surrounded by their loved ones is what they want to remember the most, and what they want to record for posterity, rather than the glamor of the event. And that's why they would prefer a documentary, instead of a moving Vogue photo-spread.

Now that's not to say that one group is more shallow than another. It's just a matter of different priorities, and each perspective is respectable in its own way.
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