Here’s a quick clip that shows the importance of watching your step when filming a couple while walking backwards with the Glidecam. Luckily, the camera did not hit the ground, as I did.

Watch Your Step from Vivid Wedding Films on Vimeo.

Here’s Meredith and Mark’s same day edit…

Same Day Edit: Meredith & Mark from Vivid Wedding Films on Vimeo.

What an amazing day yesterday for Meredith and Mark’s wedding. It was a great experience and everything was beautiful, from Meredith, Mark, wedding party and First Christian Church to the reception at Valley River Inn. (I’ve heard rumor that the food was great also, but I wouldn’t know first hand as we were under the gun to get the Same Day Edit finished). 

Thanks to Brittney at the Valley River Inn, Elaine of First Christian Church and photographers, Aaron and Amber of New Morning Photography, for being great to work with.

Below, are a couple of stills pulled from the video. We’ll have the same day edit within a couple of hours – it’s encoding now. 

What an amazing time we had Friday with Jessica and Kenny in our Trash the Dress session. Driving over the mountains towards Bend we hit multiple rain storms and it looked like we were in for a rained-soaked shoot. After encountering a little bit of rain at our first location, the weather cooperated and we actually got a bit of sun just before it went down. Overall, a great shoot.

Jessica and Kenny are tons of fun to work with. We laughed quite a bit. They’re also pretty hard-core and willing to try just about anything – including jumping into the Deschutes River near Drake Park. Here’s a few photos from the shoot taken by Susan and Lorrie. We’ll post the video here soon.

Here’s the trailer for Jessica and Kenny’s wedding, filmed Saturday June 6 in Eugene.

Jessica & Kenny + Trailer from Vivid Wedding Films on Vimeo.

Absolute blast filming Jessica and Kenny’s wedding yesterday! They were so much fun to work with. They had us and Jenny Hill (photographer) running (or tripping: more on that later) most of the day. They were up for almost anything as far as locations go. If only we had a few more hours in the day!

We were able to get over to our studio for 20 minutes to shoot some studio-style portraits of them in between locations.  I had a chance this morning to glance over the footage and am very excited to start editing.

Below are a few stills pulled from the video. More soon…

Here’s a great little blog post from Cameo Weddings touching on the fact that brides are trying to cut corners during this economic downturn. Here’s a bit from the post:

But there are two very distinct things you should NOT skimp on. Your photographer and videographer. A lot of brides are foregoing a videographer to try and save money. It really is not worth all the memories that you will miss.

Read the blog post here.

How to do a Same Day Wedding Edit: Part One

This is the first part of a series of posts describing how Vivid Wedding Films puts together a Same Day Wedding edit.

One of the things we love most about producing wedding films is the story behind each couple. Good visuals, lighting and audio are very important, but if you can’t tell a story, then your film won’t add up to much.

We pride ourselves on being great story-tellers at every level of the production. It begins with the way we film – what you capture through your lens is much like the “ideas and words” authors use to tell stories. While filming, we’re already beginning to think about the edit and how we’ll tell the story – and without a doubt, each story is unique. Being able to see the story unfold before us is what separates us from a lot of wedding videographers.

Editing a Same Day Edit + Love Story is sort of like reverse-engineering the story – or edit. After interviewing the couple, we begin to piece together their story, while thinking about how it will integrate with shots from their actual wedding day. As you can see in the photo below, we leave “gaps” in the story for which images and audio from the day will occupy.

For us, this is the fun part: not knowing exactly how the story will unfold and being flexible enough to alter any ideas we had going into the day. As we lead up to Meredith and Mark’s Same Day Edit, June 19th, we’ll be passing along more insight into the process of “telling their story” using the Same Day Edit + Love Story.

Sometimes it’s way too easy to get lulled into our habits, and we taking things for granted. Living and working in Oregon is a complete blessing. To be surrounded by mountains, rivers, forests and the great Pacific ocean just an hour away just makes you want to stop and breathe in God’s creation once in a while.

The sun is finally starting to shine here and our sleepy little town of Eugene is waking up from a season of slumber. In their up-coming issue, Oregon Bride Magazine is featuring Eugene, Oregon as an amazing place to be married, from scenic landscapes to a great variety of wedding services.

Oregon Bride Magazine asked Vivid Wedding Films to be a part of their article, pick it up at a store or check it out on line. Thanks so much Heather and Wendy!

We’ve just added a new feature where your friends and family can buy portions of a wedding film or photography for you, the bride and groom. We understand that budget is always a concern when shopping for your wedding film – but that you’re also looking for the highest quality film. Here’s a way for your friends and family to invest in your wedding film – something that will last for years to come.

For more information, visit our registry page.

We just finished up shooting the Love Story portion of Meredith and Mark’s Same Day Edit. They’re getting married June 19, here in Eugene. It was great shoot and we had lots of fun interviewing both of them.

They did a great job sharing their story and it’s going to come across great as we weave it into the video that will play – along with footage from their wedding day – at the reception. Here’s a couple of stills from the video we shot.

You’ve already made one great choice…. from Vivid Wedding Films on Vimeo.

We have been so overwhelmed with responses for our Wedding Films this season. We have had the opportunity to collaborate with so many great couples, and the year is just starting.

We’re very excited about the Same Day Wedding Edits we’ve got lined up this year. Our team is currently working on some new ways to take those to another level. Those additions, along with our jump to full High-Definition are going to lead to some amazing wedding films for some amazing couples this summer.

For those who have not yet seen what a Same Day Edit looks like, here’s a peek on one. This video played for Stephanie and Andrew about 2 hours after they said “I Do.” It was also recently entered (along with their entire wedding) to The Knot’s ‘Best Weddings of 2008′ contest.

Andrew & Stephanie | Same Day Edit from Vivid Wedding Films on Vimeo.

Our primary focus was still photography on this shoot, but we had a bit of video so put this together with what we had.

Here’s a few more shots of Sarah and Jesse that we ran through a program called Poladriod – a really easy program that turns your photos into Poloriods. Be careful though…it can be a little addicting.