At IN[FOCUS] 2011, featured presenter Patrick Moreau of StillMotion presented how wedding filmmaking is Your Gateway to a variety of creative commercial projects.
In this clip, Patrick elucidates on the diversity and uniqueness of the wedding filmmaker’s skill set and how it blows the minds of commercial producers. Ron Dawson also touched on this topic this week – check out this thoughts as well.
Click on any of the links below to hear more from StillMotion about the BTS from their commercial projects:
Patrick will be on tour this summer as a part of the Canon Live Learning Tour. Register for any of the dates listed using the coupon code “Focus” and you will receive a 10% discount!
At IN[FOCUS] 2011, featured presenter Patrick Moreau of StillMotion presented how wedding filmmaking is Your Gateway to a variety of creative commercial projects.
In this clip, Patrick explains how connecting with clients will open your mind to creative opportunities while filming.
Patrick will be on tour this summer as a part of the Canon Live Learning Tour. Register for any of the dates listed using the coupon code “Focus” and you will receive a 10% discount!
From Patrick:
winnie’s favorite cookie is anything fresh baked. she loves to bake. jerry loves peanut butter, he’d eat almost anything with peanut butter on it. together they describe themselves as kids that never grew up.
they love stuffed animals and their collection of numerous versions of miffy and mr. bee is both a way to be silly and play games together as well a celebration of their relationship.
we’ve used winnie + jerry’s film for several talks as it really exemplifies the power and value in getting to know your couples. knowing of the long history of miffy and mr. bee in winnie and jerry’s relationship meant we as a team were all prepared to included them in our compositions as much as possible. instead of manipulating them (such as ever popular ring shot by the window) we actively searched for how they were involved throughout the day and sought to cover that in a natural way, in real-time as it happened. had we not known the history and how relevant these characters were to their story, they likely would have been included at times simply by chance, but that isn’t purposeful storytelling – that’s luck.
the example of miffy and mr. bee is really just a microcosm of the larger philosophy we embrace and the desire to tell real and relevant stories. here is the big question; how does each film you shoot change as the characters within it change, or are all of the people somewhat interchangeable? does it REALLY matter who is getting married, or is your narrative more determined by the flow of events and where they take place?
if your interested in hearing more about the idea of getting to know your couples/clients and how you can interpret them in your work, join us for a free ustream chat may 31st at 3PM CST, 4PM EST here:
this will be a question and answer type format so come and join us if you have time and we’ll be happy to chat about anything you’d like to throw at us.
we are so excited to be the featured speakers for this years IN[FOCUS] event. we take that role very seriously and konrad and i have been brainstorming for quite some time on how we can deliver the most punch in three hours.
while thinking of what we wanted to share as our intro film, we really wanted something that would express the battle we feel each same day edit is. when we met konga it just felt like such a perfect fit. we push and prod for every single second on a wedding day to make each same day edit the better than we ever thought we were capable of. what we really want to share with you is our whole philosophy on how this all comes together before the wedding, as your shooting, and then in the editing stage.
while we often shoot a full film and produce a same day edit with a team of two (usually konrad and I), we will also be discussing workflows for a single person or larger teams. as crazy as it sounds, we will even share with you some same day edits that were shot and edited by one person the entire day. it all comes down to preparation, practice, and the right workflow – all of which we will go into in great detail.
we want to touch on prepping for an sde, soundtrack selection, getting to know the couple, creating concepts (for the sde), how to storyboard, scheduling, shooting for the edit, storytelling with your shooting, balancing shooting for an sde as well as the full film, how to shoot parts of the day with one person, shooting as a team, editing workflow from importing to exporting, how HD-SLRs have changed our workflow, why everybody should edit their own footage, as well as a bunch of tips and tricks that have saved our showings time and time again.
if your already registered for IN[FOCUS], you have a chance to make our presentation even more personal. we are looking for people to send us one of their recent same day edits, or one of their favourite same day edits. in addition to the clip, please include a brief description of your workflow – how much time from start to showing, how many people, how many cameras, what else did you have to deliver? if your willing to take the time to share that with us, please feel free to also include any challenges you had, questions specific to same day edits, or any tips you would like to share. we would love to share some of our favourite same day edits as well as some of your work. we will work hard to make sure all questions and answers are integrated into our presentation.
please email me directly at patrickATstillmotion.ca with a link to your clip as well as your answers. please keep in mind that by sending us a clip, you are consenting to having it shown on stage.
thanks for all the help and we can’t wait to meet everybody in austin.
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