Lan and I were flown to Cancun by Doug and Lawrence (Furious Photographers) to shoot a photographer’s promo video of them. They somehow booked two weddings back to back in Cancun… with a Day After session after the second wedding (which actually won’t happen until tomorrow).
As part of our project we were also delivering a short video for each couple, so we were essentially shooting two videos at each wedding. For Tiffany and Ly, we decided to do a same-day edit of their AMAZING wedding incorporating photos shot by Doug and Lawrence. Their photos were great, and we got some wonderful footage. I suppose you’d call this a same-day fusion-video, using both photos and video together instead of one or the other or two separate presentations.
We’ll be doing a full edit in the coming weeks, but this is what we showed at the reception, thankfully to a oohs and aahs then a wonderful applause at the end. Tiffany and Ly were literally a dream couple to work with… not just by having a gorgeous wedding but as people who were genuine, easy going and just plain fun.
TECH: Obviously there was no time for adjustments, effects or transitions, those will come later. For those wondering, it was shot on a 5D mark II and a Canon HV20 on a Steadicam Merlin, edited in Final Cut Pro, exported and sent to iMovie to add the photos (because it’s easy!). The video was presented on a MacBook Pro to the guests and delivered to the couple on an iPod Touch. Furious Photographers don’t fool around.
MUSIC: 2012 – Story of A Boy – music.podshow.com
(the song is temporary, we actually used a Sigur Ros song for the presentation, but needed to quickly choose something else for us to post online)
Enough talk, watch the video.
-Vu
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Holy monkey guys. These are INCREDIBLE. Looks like your wedding was as windy as ours!! :-D
Wow… that was incredible. Beautiful!! You guys are amazing.
This is freakin amazing!! You guys rocked it.
Love, love, love the video you two created! The music is perfect and the ceremony scenes with the wind blowing gave me chills. Beautiful work!
Oh SNAP son! this video is off da hook. The Bui Brothers and Furious Photographers doing it real big!
so proud of you guys!
@JACKRATANA, thanks Jack and everyone else for the kind words ;D Special thanks to Lan and Vu Bui for their phenomenal insight. It was such a great pleasure to work with them and would recommend them without reserve.
@Lawrence @tofurious, when you guys get back we need to celebrate with some Ramen.
@JACKRATANA, NOM NOM NOM on the Ramen!!!
beautiful! you guys are awesome. but you already know that ;)
Stunning, romantic, beautiful and captivating are a few words that come to mind. Fantastic job to you all – cheers!
Seriously took my breath away! You boys did an incredible job :) I can’t wait to see it with the final edits. Those steadicam shots give me the chills, and so does the 5Dii DOF. Congrats to both Bui’s and Tofurious!!
this is amazing guys.
breathtaking! thanks natalie for twittering this! ;)
yes, i can’t wait to see the final edits. simply gorgeous!
and gorgeous couple!
Hey guys who’s the artist behind this song, amazing video, keep up the good work guys! Thanks for posting this!
You guys are money!
The video cranked within a wedding session cannot get better than this!!! You guys did an awesome job!!! It was a fun trip being able to eat and spend our days in the *SPA* hahahaha AYYYY NO!!!! Have fun! and Where those face mask!
-Kevin
Wow! One of the best wedding videos I have ever seen. I love your use of manual focus with the 5D mark II video. Very inspiring. Thank you very much for this post.
That was the best wedding clip I’ve seen so far!
That was the best wedding video I’ve EVER seen! It made me cry. I’d better go get a tissue now… no joke.
Beautiful work!
You guys are amazing seriously! That was so beautiful and creative!
best same day edit video ever!
That was really great footage, and very well captured. I’ve done tons of weddings, and this was great!
Does anybody know who sings this song? Anybody? Amazing footage and fantastic song!
Hi Rob, the artist is credited (as always) :) in the video and the blog post.
It’s 2012, the song is Story of A Boy, we got it from music.podshow.com.
Enjoy!
Thanks Vu, I somehow missed the credits.