Gemma and Jay at Hazelgap Barn
From the videographers point of view (me, Calum) and if you have worked it out yet pretty much all these blogs are written by the videographer of the team. As I am pretty shit on social media so I do the website side of things for marketing and whatnot. So that mainly means blogs, blogs and more blogs. Who knows if I’m any good at it, but I keep writing them and hey at least they are somewhat unique!
You can also tell which blogs I write as I divert from topics like a politician dodging direct questions. As I was saying from the point of view of a videographer, I can approach a wedding highlight cinematic film in hundreds of ways. My modus operanda are: shoot the day (obviously) edit the ceremony and speeches and then decide from the content of vows, readings and speeches what sort of tone was there and then balance it with the other footage I capture ie, shots of the venue, candids of guests and dancing, with the hope I can come up with something unique that compliments the couple and their day.
Some days are sweet with poems and beautiful thoughtful readings and doting speeches, some days are joyful where the couple can’t contain their excitement, some days are a massive party where the dance floor is packed and people love it and some days it’s personal and very unique to the couple where they show off their personalities and interests.
With Gemma and Jay, it was all of the above!
They had a personalised poem for a reading, another one that was emotionally read and an open and unguarded joint speech being, where let everyone know how they felt about one another.
They were dead chuffed almost giddy during their ceremony climaxing to their first kiss, then second then third in a matter of seconds.
They kicked off the night reception with their first dance to Shuffle by The Bombay Bicycle Club, which was followed by everyone having a proper dance. It’s the kind of reception you ask for as a videographer! A lot of good dancers having a blast!
They had Lego Star Wars themed buttonholes, a lightsaber battle, board games and escape room fun too. Really putting a Gemma & Jay stamp to the proceedings.
So as a videographer I was spoilt for choice. And I only have 5 mins to tell their story. My trick is, that it’s about what you don’t include! So I am finishing this blog on an ambiguous note, like the end of The Sopranos where it just
