SilverKottage

The past few weeks have been HECTIC.
Work has been crazy busy with the Heritage Festival… running an awards night and the lead up to the awards is hard work and very time consuming.

Some say, this is as prestigous as the Oscars…

Then within the same week, I moved out to a new apartment and also, I’ve been slaving away on my best friend’s Prewedding film for a couple of weeks too.

Photos courtesy of www.vlblog.net, Vincent Lai, photographer on the day

I’ve known Vincent and Lisa since my first days at University, studying Computer Science and they’ve been great friends ever since. I had the honour of being Vincent’s best man on his big day and to top it off, as a gift, I made a Prewedding film for them.

The sexy bridal party!

It was great, I haven’t shot a narrative piece by myself since I was in New York in 2008 with my Sony FX1. And now, with my Canon 7D and having full control, I was back to where I’ve always wanted to be, directing.

Without going on and on, here is the Prewedding film:

Being back in the Director’s chair was fun and since I edited also, I really got to fine tune my skills in saying no to footage that we shot. I’d say we had another 3 scenes that did not make the final cut.

Then to top the night off in the end, PaperCranes finished the evening with an awesome SDE. The dance in the end was only filmed 30mins before the film was shown! SANTO YOU ARE CRAZY!

Finishing the night with a tribute to Mr Jackson!

Haven’t had a chance to post up some wedding films that I shot with Paper Cranes last year, so here they are.
We’re flat out at the moment, well mostly Santo and Dewi, since they got married in December 2009 so there haven’t been much trailers up…

But here are some that are. Enjoy

Kelvin and Tania Cinematic Wedding Trailer (Same Day Edit)
We were given a day of sunshine and wind, but for Kelvin and Tania, thank you for choosing us as your videographer. We are glad that they were happy with the SDE and the evening celebrations were full of heat and entertainment.

THIS MUCH – a prewedding film of James and Thao
James and Thao are a very cute and sweet couple. They are the type of people who appreciate and respect others very much. They wanted their prewedding film to tell the story of how they met each other and how James proposed for Thao’s hand in marriage. We are so proud to tell such a lovely true story and to show the finished film on their reception night 31st October 2009.

Samantha and Dalvin Cinematic Wedding Trailer
Sam and Dalvin are very cute couple. One sentence to describe them “They love their dog COCO so MUCH!!!” ok maybe that’s not a good description, but thats my take on it anyway

Coco is a very gorgeous dog by the way. She barked at our team when we arrived for shooting but got very friendly afterwards. Anyway, back at Sam and Dalvin. They had their wedding ceremony at the beautiful Little Bay Chapel and had their reception at the WatersEdge, The Rocks.

There was two very unique things on their wedding day. The dog, coco was the ring bearer, and they used the Superman theme song as their grand entrance song.. how good is that????

Anyhow, I hope you’ll enjoy this cute and fun clip