A quick preview of Ellie and Nick’s upcoming story. A couple who are as opposite as yin and yang but enjoy life through music, dance, food and the outdoors.
Look for a sample of their story in the highlight video coming soon!
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!
When Bobby told me how disappointed he was that the annual 48hr Film Festival was moving to a different weekend this year, landing on the same days as our latest wedding, I was really bummed for him because I know that’s something he really enjoys doing every year. And his team, Fighting with Forks, is pretty good at what they do, having notched the BEST FILM for 2009 with their Now You’re Being Ridiculous
Well, this year Seth & Brianna’s Nashville wedding was held at Scarritt Bennett Center downtown on the first day of the event, and Bobby had to take a limited role. Well, he TOLD me was going to take a limited role with the team.
Little did I know, he ended up shooting Seth & Brianna’s gorgeous event which ended at 10:30[pm], then immediately running over to join the FWF team and taking over the reins as editor. Having only 48 hrs to conceptualize, shoot, edit and deliver the film on DVD, Bobby worked through the night and morning putting the film together into what you see here (totaling 40 hours straight without sleep!)
For their effort, The Department of Thoughts and Intentions was just honored as runner up BEST FILM, but took top billing for Directing, Cinematography, Graphics and Bobby’s portion—EDITING!
A gigantic part of what makes the modern cinematic wedding work that Feria Cinematic Imagery puts out is the amazing editing work that Bobby does after all the shooting is completed. So, I’m really blessed to work with him on the FERIA team.
King’s to you, Marko.
P.S. First person to know that last movie reference and comments on it wins….um, something.
Exciting news today! Feria, along with photography by Krystal Mann was featured on Style Me Pretty, on the cover page today. We are so thrilled and thankful for such a wonderful opportunity! More thanks go out to Cedarwood Mansion for their wonderful location. We’re hoping this will lead to more work together.
Here is the video from that post!
I’m not one of those iPhone users who rush out grab an app just because most of my friends or industry gurus are using it. I have to think hard on wether or not the application will be useful enough to warrant even the smallest fee of $.99. However, every once in a while I will come across an app that appeals to me just by reading about it. Well such an app as crossed the landscape of my MBP screen.
It’s called mRelease app by beingMEdia. It’s a tool for drafting releases for subjects, locations, props, crew, anything and anybody in which you would need a signed release. Now I know in the wedding business this isn’t always needed but for photographers and cinematographers who shoot their subjects in public and use that work to publicize online may have to start thinking twice about needing this. When we shot the wedding for Amy and Bryan last year using the airport hangar, we had to have the company sign releases stating that we could use the images of their planes for purposed of promotional material because I knew that even though we would not be using the company’s logo or name in the piece, the tail numbers on the planes may be noticeable and can be traced back to that company. Little details like that are very important for those who are doing story based type of imagery.
Ok, so back to the app, using this tool will simply ask you a few questions about your project, you can take a snap shot of your subject to include in the release, you can have the subject sign the release and have it saved as a PDF to have it emailed to you directly from your iPhone. Very cool!
As I said, this tool will not be for everyone but for those in story based imagery, commercial photographers, DP’s, and directors, this tool is a must have! Even better, it’s only $2.99! Get it here!
Just wanted to give a quick blurb about a project I’m working on with a film team called Athentikos. Back in January of this year we took a team of sixteen crew members from all over the United States down to Guatemala to capture stories of Guatemalans giving their lives away, even risking their lives, to help their communities and their country.
We came back after spending over two weeks in several areas of Guatemala with a huge amount of footage. Over the next six months, myself, along with producer Scott Moore and assistant director Bengy Del Villiar poured over all the footage, writing out the stories and piecing the footage together.
We realized another trip down was necessary so in August of this year Scott, Bengy, J.Mac (our tech, pa and jack of all trades) and myself went back down to Guatemala for another two weeks to capture the footage needed to complete the stories.
Currently we’re in the editing phase of the project. We have more than seven terabytes of raw footage and we expect to more than double that space once the project is complete, Spring of next year. Feel free to check out the website http://athentikos.com for more info on the team, the stories and organizations featured in the film.
I’ll be writing updating the progress from time to time on the film. Till then, check out the site, the film trailers that are already live on the website, and hope you will follow the progress and even possibly contribute. How, is totally up to you. Thanks!
