Ellie and Nick are a living example of the term “opposites attract.” The enjoy life through their love of food, music and their dogs. Here’s a highlight segment of their story.

We had such a great time spending time capturing Ellie and Nick’s story. I mean, come on… who wouldn’t enjoy combing the vineyard isles at Tennessee’s own Arrington Vineyards; or running the steps in Tennessee Titan’s home, LP Field… the visuals just jumped at us knowing the locations we were going to be able to film. But even more than that is the caring and heart felt compassion Ellie and Nick have for each other. They may be Yin and Yang but but they enjoy life like they were created for each other.

We loved the footage so much from their wedding ceremony we had to create another highlight video showing them off! What a great couple to work with!

We had a great time shooting our b-roll footage with Brianna and Seth this past Saturday. Although this crazy Nashville summer weather hit about 120 deg with the heat index, this adorable couple were so fun to hang out with. We have to say, they are as pleasant as they come. Really easy to direct and just fun to watch them interact with each other.

We started off with an interview sesh in a really vibey, 1920′s house in old Nashville. Gotta say, they were super open and revealing about so many things and emotions really came out in their answers to our questions. Ben and I stayed strong, but our two assistants were bawling their eyes out (just kidding). After lunch we revisited the wedding location, Scarritt Bennett Conference Center for a quick shot under THE TREE that we sneak peeked earlier… we are hoping that our experiment will work in editing (show you later if it does).

After that, we zipped out to beautiful Radnor Lake just south of town. Seth and Brianna love to be outdoors, and we took some still footage along with our motion footage. A combination of winding trails + lush forest + slider + bokeh = lurvly footage.

Lastly, we decided to hit the Wilson County Fair—these lovelies shared their first ever date at the fairgrounds a few years ago. However, about 2 minutes after we splurged for “all-you-can-ride” tickets, the heavens poured out a bevy of liquid. It poured as we huddled underneath the small lip of the popcorn stand. Rolling TENBA camera case (shoutout!) actually kept our gear all dry—but, I was soaked to the bone. After waiting 30min under the stand with a pocket full of ride tickets (non-refundable/good only one day) we decided to leave. Of course, as soon as we got to the parking lot it stopped raining. Figures! Anyways, we decided to cut our losses and come back another day. As the muddy parking swamp was stuck with a thousand cars leaving, the FERIA team had an impromptu soggy recap / brainstorm session as we waited for an exit. We weren’t altogether bummed because from the few minutes we had on the carousel with our Canon 5dMkII / L primes (shoutout numero dos!) we knew we’d get our chance again.

SO… two days later we returned with fresh spirits, ready to tackle the carnies and whatever else the fair would throw our way. We had a blast. It was a quieter night—ride lines were short and carnival employees (our small-handed friends) were enthusiastic that we were getting them on camera and let us do anything we wanted (blog post soon to come: How to get ANYONE to let you shoot anywhere).

So, why are we thanking God for the rainout on Saturday??? Well, we decided to wrap up after a great few hours of capturing the fair and started heading out to the park entrance. And timely…ly, the fireworks started. Hey-o! This went PERFECT with a story element that Brianna shared with us in our interview session. A loving couple exchanging embraces under the backdrop of the ferris wheel and fireworks finale…….. can’t you just imagine it already? We promise to share.

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Here’s a quick little BHS with Brianna and Seth:

A totally fun-loving couple who we had a great time hanging with. We ran around those fairgrounds like crazy that evening but being with this couple makes all the hard work fun. We had a blast!

Of all the questions via email or twitter (FOLLOW US @feriacinematic) regarding our wedding cinematography work, this is by far the most frequent we receive:

What gear do you use???

Over time, through working on a range of projects, we have figured out an effective assortment of tools for us to capture what we need to make the movies that we want to make.

We will make a series of comprehensive posts in the near future about all the gear we use, with shoutouts to all of the manufacturers (Canon, RedRockMicro, Manfrotto, LowePro, etc.), but for now, here is a list of everything we used for our last wedding for Brianna and Seth:

Camera bodies:
(4) Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR
Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR

Lenses:
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L II
Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 L
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 L II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Canon EF 135mm f/2.0 L
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II

Support:
Redrock Micro rails support with follow focus
Glidecam Steadicam
(2) Custom made sliders

Video Heads:
(2) Manfrotto 504HD
(2) Manfrotto 503

Tripods/Monopods:
(2) Bogen 535 tripod
(2) Bogen 190xb tripod
(2) Bogen 685B monopod

Accessories:
Lexar Professional 233-300x 16gb and 32gb CF cards
Pelican and LowePro Cases
Pelican Compact Flash Card Memory Cases

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Over the past year we’ve gone back and forth and tried different arrangements of support systems and lenses and other video gear. In upcoming posts we’ll show you some of the new techniques we’ve developed, some extra gear we decided to strip away to move faster (more gear doesn’t always equal better), and the upgrades we’ve made and whether that has helped or hurt us. And of course, the gadgets us dslr tech geeks couldn’t resist trying!

More videos to come!

And please, comment away on your fave gear or latest upgrades that you love! We learn a ton about effective products from our great network of video professionals.

As we mentioned in our last post, we shot Anita Renfroe’s live performance in Marietta, GA, this past Tuesday. And although there’s nothing to show just yet, we did want to give a shout out to all the production crew that helped us out and give a huge “Thank You!” to the wonderful crowd.

And of course—Anita herself for letting us be a part of the production. She really is talented and had our camera guys rolling—always amazing to see a master of their craft display their gifts.

We thought we’d also include a few pics of our camera crew—proving we really did use DSLR’s! We had nine (9!) Canon bodies (5d2 & 7d), a dozen lenses, rented/purchased 14 high-capacity, professional speed CF cards, and brought multiple sliders and jibs to get the job done.

Starting from top left: John Moessner, Scott Moore, Ben De Rienzo, Bobby Marko, Chris Adams, Jon Bufkin

It really was a great team—our wrap party at the local Irish pub was a good end to the project. Long days and drives to and fro—but, extremely enjoyable nonetheless. We will post again about the highlights and what we learned about this challenging project.