New Article on Michiana Weddings

Amy over at Michiana Weddings has been bugging me for an article on what makes a good wedding video for a longtime. I have long thought that many brides and grooms and their families settle for uncle Bob quality video because that is 1 what they are used to and 2 they don't know what good video is. So this series of articles sets out to use video clips and audio clips to define exactly what makes a good wedding video.

The first article in the series which is now online sets out to define what is good audio. Crisp, clear and intelligible is what you should be looking for in a video. So mosey over the Michiana Weddings and check out Part One of What To Look For In A Wedding Video Demo.

Weddings on Fifty Foot Film!

Everything that is old is new again and so it is with Super 8mm Film. Allure Films / River City Productions is now proud to offer Super 8mm Film for your wedding! That's right, the same format that many of your family's home movies were recorded on in the 60's, 70's and 80's. The format hasn't died with the onset of high quality video production, in fact it's experiencing a resurgence!

Why Super 8mm Film? Do you have any family members that will only listen to vinyl records? They'll spend hours explaining to you why their scratchy and static albums sound better than your cold, clear digital CDs or downloaded mp3s. The same can be said for film vs video. Film has a warmth and an organic feel to it that digitally captured video just can't reproduce.

It is also the memories of childhood. Some of my most treasured memories are of my uncles hauling out their old projectors and showing Super 8mm Films from days gone by. Through film I have seen who my grandfather was, since I never saw him in life, saw him laugh, saw his affection for his family, all through the moving pictures of film. Relived my own memories of proudly somersaulting across my grandmother's living room floor. Playing tag with my cousins. Ripping open Christmas presents with my family. Those grainy, vibrant images are like memories, organic, colorful and something I would never give up.

As wedding cinematographers we at Allure Films are now proud to offer the ability to add Super 8mm Film to your wedding video!

Below is some footage I shot at the University of Notre Dame of the Baslica and the lakes on campus last fall. I had just won a Cannon camera at an ebay auction and wanted to test it out. So I went there to get footage of the Basilica planning to work it into the openings for weddings we shot there. I just happened to run across a bride and groom and their car, so from a distance I shot some footage of them. Enjoy the minute and fifteen second clip below.

Last Friday we were hired by the Hilton Garden Inn to photograph their wonderful Fleur de Lis Ballroom in the Gillespie Convention Center. I can wait to get into there and photograph or video an actual wedding reception. We had a lot of fun with their wonderful staff getting these photographs. Below are a handful of my favorites.



I love the effect created by a fish eye lens and for this shoot I brought along our new lens to experiment with.


Outdid ourselves on this photo. Don't know why, I think it's the symmetry, but I love it.