SWP Episode 016
On this episode, Matt is joined by the other members of the videography team at MJ&Co. Stories - Chris and Josiah are the videography team leads on your wedding day, and you'll likely seem them behind a tripod, holding a gimbal or fiddling with the audio equipment (just to make sure your final videos are as perfect as possible). Filming a wedding day is a lot of work, and every company will approach it with a different mindset, so knowing what to expect from your chosen vendor is important since their work will be reflected in your video(s) from the day.
We tell your stories. This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at how we do that.
Transcription of the episode can be found below the photos.
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Matt: Hello, you are listening to The Sask Wedding Podcast. If you're a bride to be or just love weddings, we created this show just for you. I'm your host, Matt Ramage. I'm the owner of MJ&Co. Stories, a photography and film company based in Saskatoon. On today's episode, we have our video team, Chris Rempel and Josiah Maningas.
Chris and Josiah are the videography team leads here at MJ&Co., and I have them on today to share everything you need to know about wedding films. Thanks for being here.
Josiah: Thanks for having us.
Chris: I'm contractually obligated to be here.
Matt: He's literally paid to be here. I hope you say the right things. So I wanted to record this episode with you today because videography is one of those things where it's like very different from company to company, and even our own packages are pretty different.
So like when you hire a wedding photographer, You kind of just get wedding photos, right? The only difference is like that photographer's creative approach, the way they would maybe handle editing, the way they would maybe give you service, but the deliverables are photographs, right? Videos not like that.
Video. You're not just taking a bunch of video clips and going, Hey, oh, here's a hard drive raw.
Yeah, I guess, Yeah. Yeah. And then for sure. Yeah, so it's like a whole creative thing that the company that you go with or the company that you're getting your product from is you choose the company kind of based on their editing style almost.
. Yeah. I mean, I guess the same thing goes for photos. You pick somebody that you like for photos, but you're right, photos are just like, Here's a bunch of images we took. And then video is we took the video and then we built a story out of it, you know? Yeah. Hopefully it's what you wanted. .
So the difference is there's a lot more unknown.
So when we, so we do discovery calls with potential clients. And so when we talk to them, when we talk about wedding photography, it is you know, when it comes down to what you actually get, there's a lot of similarities. And then the videos, when we talk about videography and films with our potential clients, very different conversation.
They don't know as much. It's not so straightforward. So for example you go to one company, they just do it one way. Maybe they'll just make a, like a bit of a highlight reel of the day. . And there's just one person and they're not actually filming the whole day. Maybe they use microphones and audio, maybe they don't.
Maybe, you know, maybe they do a same day edit or something like that. Maybe they have a whole team. There's a lot of different ways you can. Yeah, there's so many different ways. And so I think it's confusing almost from the outside looking in, like photography. You know, we always have two photographers for photography, but you know, you can have one or two photographers and videography is very different.
Where, you know, we're running, I mean, what's a typical camera count? Oh, like we're taking different angles. Like even just the ceremony. Yeah. Ceremony. There's
Chris: at least three. Like at Yeah, if we were just doing video. Yeah. Three dedicated. Three is
Josiah: kind of the minimum. Yeah. Especially for like reception or ceremony.
If you're just doing like a highlight reel, you can get away with just one. But what we do here is we basically depending on the package that you get, you're capturing the whole day as well as building a story with a highlight reel or what we call a feature film. Right?
Chris: So, yeah, so you need a cameras that are not expendable, but that you can leave alone so that they capture the things when you're moving your other cameras around.
There has to be a backup. It gets used. It's not just there for backup. It's definitely used, but yeah you're almost like setting a camera and then being like, Okay, now I'm down one camera. , uh, how do I still capture everything? And yeah. So you're you and you're like thinking about it as you're filming.
It's if I'm filming this, is there something capturing the thing that I'm gonna miss when I move? , it's, you're like, you're editing in your head as you're doing the day, and then a week later you sit down and you start to edit it in the studio and they're like, and you're like, I hope I made the right choices.
So, Which we do. Yeah. Yeah, we do. And yeah. So that's
Matt: experts, right? Three cameras. Yeah. We kind of know what we're doing. Wink with this. I . So yeah, like it's a lot more complicated. And actually when I think about the difference on, let's say even a wedding ceremony, photography's actually like the ceremonies more of the, in my mind, the easy part.
You're not doing you're not intervening, you're not as, you're not opposing or , you're just like, Shooting it as it happens. Right. And you don't need to be that stable cuz you just need you know, you need your shot and then you're done. You don't even have to have your camera up to your face the whole time.
Where with the wedding films are very different. Where it's you need, like what Chris was saying, you need that shot rolling the entire time cuz you need a continuous version. . And so, I find the pressure for that is like really very different.
You know, we're hiding. I mean, I guess we could go into kind of our approach a little bit. I'm maybe gonna wind us up a little bit. If you go to our website right now, do you guys know the phrase that's on the homepage? Uh, we tell your stories. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. And so I, our whole entire approach to wedding storytelling is capturing moments that we would want if we were the client.
And the way we do that is we put ourselves. Mostly me, I kind of make the call on the approach of it, but I mean, you guys buy into it, you guys get it. But we're trying to do what we would want if we were our client. And so for us, we built that around Hey, you know, a nice photography for sure.
Everybody wants that. And Photography's book. More Like most people, if they're gonna skip something, they're not, If they're gonna pick between photography and video, they're always going photography. If you're doing one, you do photography. . Yeah. And then maybe you do two. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So with video, we changed it to, okay, how do we wanna approach video?
And we have only two ways we do it. We have, and I mean Chris and just, I obviously know this stuff. You're listening, this is kind of for you. We have two ways of doing it. We have what's called a keepsake, and that. The short, small film, and actually our photography team does that filming. So we don't actually have a dedicated long cut of your ceremony, your first look, your reception.
We're not doing that. Instead what we have is small clips throughout the day. We put together to make a short film, and usually they're about six to eight minutes. So, those are really popular for couples who don't, you know, some couples just don't wanna hear their own voice. Some people just wanna, I mean, as far as financially goes, , it's a lot less work for us.
So it's very affordable, a very affordable add-on. And so for a lot of couples, it's very popular. I did the numbers this year for our other episode, we're gonna record today, but about half our couples did feature that went with a video option. So half so the keepsake was about half as popular as the feature.
So some couples, the couples who want everyth. that, that's the feature package, That's where we're micing everything up. You actually get it all, you get the full reception minus like eating full ceremony. And then, you know, if you have any other parts of the day we do that too. So like first look, so the approach started with that.
We tell your story and that's what I would want if I was to do it all over again. If Crystal and I were to go, you know, if we weren't married yet and we wanted to have a wedding, I would want those speeches. I would want. You know, the ceremony recorded , and I mean, we did it too. Like when we went you know, Chris and Melissa, you guys came out to Hawaii this year to film the, uh, vow renewal for Crystal and I, and we did the photography of it, but also we did the vow renewal on the beach.
And that was something I wanted a mic on me. And when I look at it, I love hearing those and all those little moments that you guys captured for us. Like when I look at them, Every time I watch it, I get more attached to it. I like it even more. Like it's more of a special memory as it as time goes on.
And it's only been like, what, five months? Six, Not even half a year. So that's the way we approach it. So I thought we could go over you know, what is what, like what is wedding films and what could they be? And so, I wanna start with one question. You guys kind of, you guys see the emails when we deliver them and you've seen people come in for the reveals when couples come in for the reveals or whatever.
Talk about like maybe they email you after. What's one of the things they say to you after they see the film? And I'm putting these guys on the spot, just so you know. I don't, I didn't want them to think too hard
Chris: ahead of time. Not something that's like mostly said amongst everybody. Just like one thing that somebody has
Matt: said, it could be in general.
I think for me
Josiah: personally, like I haven't been to, because when we do reveal our feature films and those are the films that I've worked on this past year. I haven't been in the room with them. Oh yeah. I
Matt: forgot to kick you guys out. So
Josiah: Matt kicks us out cuz uh, we ruin the moment. No, but that's a new thing.
So Yeah. But I think what most people say or rather don't say is when they see the film, a lot of them. Almost so caught up in the moment and reliving that, that special day for them that they don't say anything and when they don't say anything, I think that obviously means that they really enjoyed it.
They're speechless. They're so caught up in their emotions that they don't know what to say. And I think that speaks more than, at least for me, than saying something after.
Matt: How about you, Chris?
Chris: Uh, there's a couple things that stand. In my mind when I think of things that are mostly said and one of those is the, usually this is in the middle of the video as they're watching it for the first time or the middle of the film is I can't believe you caught that, uh, or, and.
Not like a shock, but like a good surprise kind of thing. Oh yeah, you caught that. I can't believe we caught that. And it's because there's a million things worth catching on the wedding day and we can't catch every single one. But there's some of those Significant personal moments that the rest of the people haven't seen because they weren't there.
Or they weren't listening or whatever. But because we have mics and cameras on people, we tend to capture a bunch of those. And so then we throw those in cuz they make for good little bits. And and so that's one of the most common things. And then the other one is usually at the very end of the video one or both of the people watching, we'll just kind of comment.
that was so good. And like they don't really have words other than that for it, but, And I think it's, cuz like we show them the video and they we're like, Here's your day. And it's big and a lot of po and circumstance with it. And then they're just like, caught up in it. Yeah. And they don't have time to process it.
But then, You know, a couple days later we see that they're sharing it or they're sharing their photos. Even I know we're talking video, but like they're sharing the content and they're like, we love this. And then a month later they're still sharing stuff. . . Yeah. And then we can see the gallery views from the gallery.
We deliver them three months later, there's 20 views. It's like they doing in the last month. Oh, just reliving it. Yeah. Who knows? Sharing it and other people see it. Yeah. They're like processing it and they're like, That was. That was so good and we can't believe you caught that, but they can believe they, we caught that because they know that we catch that kind of stuff.
So they were, they didn't know they were expecting it, but it, they were expecting it. That's what we do. So,
Matt: Yeah. It, yeah. Which is very similar to just like capturing a day is very much like again, fin infinite moments to capture. Yeah. We capture the ones we see and yet , because you know, when we do a photo feature team, it's three of us there.
That's A good set of eyes to watch a day. And you know, one of the things I think is really cool is it's more than the couple necessarily experiences because we're getting the things they weren't there for. Like the guys and the girls getting ready. You know, you have that part that is one sided and yet the other part, the other partner's able to experience them, uh, at that part of the day.
And then you know, one of the things I noticed this year is just it really felt like a lot of people. It is a blur for people. And I thought I'd share a little story. Just two weeks ago I did, me and my siblings, my dad turned 65 and we did a retirement party for him at my sister's house and I jumped at the opportunity to mc it.
And part of the reason I did that was. I mean, I've been to a bajillion weddings. I don't know the official count. I think it's three something now. It, I don't think it's four, but it like three digit numbers, like 300. It's 300 and some weddings. It could be Cooping up to 400. I don't think it's 400.
I know it's for sure over three. So I've seen a lot and I've seen a lot of what makes it fun. A lot of what makes it feel like it's kind of going slow. So anyway, I jumped at the idea of seeing it. I filmed and photographed it. I did it by I know what I'm doing with the cameras, but I did set it up by myself.
So I set up three cameras. The audio I had my mc notes in. I had Mike's. I was kind of doing it by myself and it was like, you know, the day I had a lot on my plate and I can't quite remember much of it. And I'm so glad, uh, you know, I had my uncles come up and share a little something about my dad. All of my siblings did.
I did lots of cute little moments with my dad's grandchildren, like my kids and my siblings, or my nieces and nephew. and it's I filmed it and uh, for the official part of it was like, do you want photography or film for that? I was, in my mind, I had to make the choice, right? Yeah. And so I chose to film it because that's the words and the thoughts and the feelings of the day are really captured in the, what people say.
And I haven't seen it. I mean, we have all our weddings to edit, so Yeah. As a video company, I put that on the back burner. We'll have it, you know, in a few weeks probably. , when I look at that event, like I don't remember that day. It was a blur. And to be looking forward to being able to relive that part, the official part of it is really, I mean, for me to find words for, it's almost hard.
I guess I almost see it as that's the gift, you know, Especially for my dad. His love language is words of affirmation. and like for him you know, we spent, he spent, I mean he spent a lot of money on food. We hosted everybody. We probably had 50 people there. It's that's the thing at the end of the day you know, it's preserved.
And I guess when I think of that's my own personal experience. And then also, you know, when you guys came to Hawaii, uh, for Crystal and I to surprise her for my own life, I try to live those values. Like what parts of my life? You know, are very special to me. And like photo photography and video together.
Like the films we create I find as not an either or, but like they both have their special place in telling the story of someone's life. . And I guess you know, we, the, our whole approach is sort of based on what's the part you wanna be able to relive? And, you know, going back to your experience of what the couple say that was so good.
Or I can't remember what you both said, but Yeah, it's really cool when I show people what we did you know, it's so much bigger than me. Like I'm not editing any of the films. You guys handle that fully on our feature film days. Like you guys are running those cameras like, thank goodness cuz it's so much to, you know, okay, let's get a bike on a bride's leg and hide it up her dress with little sticker and then we'll get one on the groom and then we'll get one on the officiate and then we'll put a recorder at the board for the, with the dj.
You know, you guys are doing all the audio
Chris: mix, like somebody knows which input on the board we need to use. Yeah. Like it's
Matt: a lot it's a lot when we just photograph a wedding, just photography with the two photographers, you know, three memory cards, like one for each camera that's used. When you guys are, when you guys are coming along for a feature wedding day and now we're up to six or something like that.
You got two mic devices,
Chris: if not cards, right? So it's like including
Matt: the mics probably like eight, age six. There's road goes,
Chris: there's regularly. Devices between cameras, video cameras, audio recorders is regularly like eight of
Matt: them. Yeah. Which is like so much to manage and then you guys are syncing that up, like it's quite a job.
So I don't know, like from the outside looking in, like when I see you guys editing those, I'm like looking at your screens that it's like a lot of work, a lot of love goes into them and that's, you know, I know we're kind of creeping up on our time here, but I guess it's like. Not, it's not all the same and that our approach is probably maybe what let's talk about our approach I guess for a couple minutes.
So when you get a keepsake film, I mentioned that already, and kind of describe that in detail. So it's like the two photographers capture small clips throughout the day. You guys are editing those films and then our client gets one keepsake film at the end of the day. What's the biggest difference from that to.
And, Oh, sorry. I'm gonna backtrack too. I would say that's what most companies actually deliver is something like that. , it's not any full version of anything. It's just a small keepsake. You know, they usually, they'll call it a highlight or maybe a
Chris: trailer or something. It might even, I regularly see videos or keepsakes or highlights that.
Four minutes like the length of a song, of single song or something. So I think . Yeah, the fact like, we do double, we do a couple songs worth of video. There's so much that we capture in the day. It's hard to cut it down anyways. But yeah, it's, so yeah, we definitely, I feel like we go a bit above what the standard is to begin with that.
And so let's
Matt: talk about like the feature packages, so you can get, you can hire feature with us, like a photo package and feature film package. Or you can get that feature film packaged by itself, like what's included in there that makes it so much different than or maybe even just makes it an MJ and co experience.
I guess
Chris: the feature is kind similar to the keepsake but a little bit longer. So it's another couple of minutes longer. And like we mentioned, we're recording the audio so we are able to put in. Snippets from vows or maybe letters were read ahead of time or. There's just little intimate moments, first looks, or and then later in, during the ceremony and during the reception when people are doing speeches and maybe your officially says something really nice or sometimes people will have a relative that's the efficient and they really want to capture some of the stuff that they've said.
Really meaningful words that were spoken into the wedding day, I guess is the best way to say it. And we put an assortment of those into. Into that video. And so it's a little bit longer so that there's more content, more room to fit that longer or that bigger amount of content, larger amount of content that we record.
But then also we add that audio and it just it's a little, it just kind of, just stretches it out. So it's a little bit of an a relax, more relaxing watch. You're not just like slamming through a bunch of clips of the day. It's it. A 12 minute story. Yeah. It's it's hard to keep it to 10 to 12 minutes, but it's that's what we aim for because you could easily go forever.
And then that's just the, that's just the video itself. There's other elements to the day that we capture too, that we deliver, so that,
Matt: like that. And so that name, we gave that package the title feature because it's like the, like that's. Exactly the way I would want it done if it was me. And and part of that approach you mentioned where we're getting the audio through the day, we do film the whole entire ceremony.
We do film the whole reception and we film, if you do a first look, we do that. And so what I think is kind of neat about it is, you know, you get a full cut of you know, I mean we did it so many times this year, but Carly and Oh, I'm blanking on names now. , we went to we did that road trip to them.
Oh, Adam and Carly? Yeah. Adam and Carly. You know, they did, uh, they were one of the couples that did their personal vows only at their first look. Yeah. . . And so that was one that now they can share it with other people in the moment. It was still private. It was intimate. Yeah. Yeah. Very intimate.
Yeah. Yeah. And I, you know, so they got that film plus the ceremony and then the reception. Yep. And so I guess the feature was kind of borne out of like the love of I love a really good wedding film. I love good speeches. And then do you guys know exactly when the best parts of the day are gonna happen?
The best jokes or the best pieces of vows are the most sentimental pieces. There's it depends,
Chris: There's, yeah, there's typical points, but it could, But we get audio of people like jumping onto, Oh, one of my favorite was from. Sorry, I'm gonna derail here. Oh, go ahead. It's all good. Couple years, a couple summers ago it was Michelle and Aen.
Aen, Yeah. Yeah. And uh, they were sitting on the bus after the ceremony. It's either after the ceremony or before the, it must have been after the ceremony. They were sitting on the bus and their recorders, their lapel recorders were still going, still rolling. And they didn't realize it. And they were just having like moments with each other and things like, Oh, did you remember to get that one thing?
And then, Oh, I love you. And like it was like weird hearing that, like the difference, like I'm hearing it cuz I'm listening through the audio to see if there's anything worth using in the video. Uh, and then they have this one moment. They realize, oh, are these recorders still running? And then are in, leans over into his mic and he's Chris, keep this audio in, or something like that.
And I can't, I think I kept it in, I think I kept it even at the very beginning of was your intro to there or something like that. And it's just that's fine. You could never have assumed it. Like we couldn't have put a person on the bus and been like, We assume something funny is gonna happen. But yeah.
So they, to an extent, yes we do. But also we don't know. Yeah, you don't know when things are gonna
Matt: happen. So, which is why we do the whole recording. We don't know, you know, you know, maybe you're priest or minister or officiates gonna be like just on fire that day with all the golden that gets there and, you know, so all those little pieces we capture it all because we use our favorite parts to tell a story from the day.
So. We're curating the little moments from your day. And so that's why we do have to capture so much. And then the perk is then you do get the full reception, full ceremony first. Look, I mean, probably one of the better examples too of this is a Yu and Yana, we did their wedding there, a Ukrainian, uh, couple and they had how many dances they had, their Ukrainian dance friends
Chris: there was there.
There was two dance groups. One did one long dance, one did two dances, I think, and then there was also like a choir that did a performance or two or a special presentation.
Matt: Some of them were planned. Some of them seemed maybe a bit impromptu. And what I think is so neat about that, for example, so like their wedding day, I think we were there for 13 hours total.
That was a longer day. That was a long day. Yeah. They did a blessing in the morning. Yeah. The coolest thing in my mind is like they actually have it. You know, you know, they have, they can go listen to the blessings. , they have their full ceremony. They have all those cool dances, which like, were pretty neat.
You know, and the people in the dance groups were their friends and the dances they had I heard someone saying that these. This dance group went to Ukraine or somewhere for the, It's like world's competition. Some world's competition. Yeah. Saskatchewan has like a good dance group and it's that's cool too.
Even for those guests there that did that, like they're friends and loved ones. Like that dance is now preserved in a really good way. . Cause you know, like the physically, the physical demands of those dances, I was like, Oh, those guys are like sweating at the end of it. Yeah. Anyway, I guess what I think is neat about it is like it's all these parts that are really unique to their day.
They have the ability to go watch. Watch that afterwards and share it and, you know, Yeah. In five years, 10 years, you know, it's gonna be like, man, I, It's not just that was our dance group. It's I can't, I couldn't dance like that if I wanted to anymore or, you know, whatever. So, you know, or them too, showing their kids like down the road, it's yeah.
You know, there's a lot of heritage they had into their wedding, which I think is maybe the thing I'm attracted to about the way we were able to serve them is being able to capture and help them preserve. Special parts of who they are and the families they came from. . So,
Chris: yeah. And you don't necessarily think that somebody's gonna sit down and watch their wedding ceremony every year and maybe they won't watch their wedding ceremony every year, but the keepsake or the feature film, that's a thing that they can just throw on and it's got and that's the other thing about the feature film, the thing that makes the audio spoken through the day really beneficial to that is that it's so hard to find music with lyrics that fit exactly the emotions.
We do a really good job of trying to pick music that fits. Yeah. But the lyrics, like the things that matter, the words or the lyrics that matter are the things that we use from the day. Those make the emotion of the video. The music definitely helps. But like somebody singing about something that they pre-recorded two years ago that we found is a good track.
Doesn't mean anything to you necessarily, but the words that your father said at his welcome to the family speech , or that your cousin who was officiating said after watching you, you know, grow up with both of you since you were kids or something like that. You know, like those are the things that matter and those are the things that are special.
Matt: Do you appreciate the work? I see the work you put into it, like it's a huge amount of work to. Every single wedding film that we do, like ready for the client? Yeah. , do you appre, like when it's all said and done, you have it all uploaded to Vimeo, it's ready to put in their gallery, it's ready to share.
How do you feel about it?
Josiah: I think that's part of like why we're a little bit different in the value that we put into our team values and obviously who you hire as team members because we do put so much work into it and it's almost. We're putting our soul into it, or we just, we care so much about making these films because we know how much they mean to other people.
That there's, they can tell that when they see the video, there's so much care behind it, and I think that brings even more meaning to it.
Matt: So, and I would say like the amount of work you guys are putting in the amount of work you're putting into the edit, like you're, okay, you're there to film the.
Which is, you know, their wedding for that, uh, Ukrainian wedding I'm talking about was like 13 hours on site plus prepping. , you're sitting with that on your screens for another, like if you, if it was undivided time, like five to six to seven days total, like we're talking like, you know, you might be week or two that you're sitting with these people in front of, you're getting very intimate with their
Chris: day.
Yeah. You can start to pick out their, like laughter in. Clips, which is really weird. Or I've edited videos of couples that you've shot, Matt that I did wasn't there for. And then I'll see them in public and I'm like, How do I know these people? Like I know these people. I know you stared at them like, and I might not know what they, I kind of know what they sound like from the raw audio, but it's like, who are these people?
Why are they so familiar to me? Oh, it's because I've sat with them on my computer screen for several days. You're so intimate with them. Yeah, so creepy. Yeah. . But yeah, you do feel like you get to know them, which. Weird. But I think it makes it like, it makes us want to actually do a good job for them. Yeah.
I mean, yeah it's your job to make a video, so we'll make a video, but that's not like anybody could just slap something together. You have to be invested. . Yeah. And that, it's weird, but it kind of helps you be a little bit more invested cuz you spend so much time with them, . So
Matt: yeah. I find like one of our values is like everything we do, we should be proud of.
Like when we look at something it. Are we proud of that thing we made? And you know, especially at the end of wedding season when it is like a lot to get through, it's, you know, what we're looking at. You know, we're still individually wedding by wedding. Being like, is are we proud of this? Oh, that thing's you got it.
90% done, let's do one tweak on this one thing. And the couple's never even gonna know. . But we will. Yeah. And then cuz like you're letting it go. Like you're saying this is complete and Yeah. There's a lot of. A lot of love. And then one of my favorite things, just like of our team, I really like, you know, wedding video day.
And that's where, you know, Josiah or Chris are like, Okay, I got the feature done. And then we all, we turn the lights off, we get a coffee or drink, it's usually in the morning. And and then we sit down on, we put on the TV and we watch it all together. Sample it. Yeah. Yeah. Which is that's one of my favorite parts too.
And it's man, they're gonna love that. And every time you do it, Oh, that was good. It like, you know, Melissa and Chris, or Melissa and Darby and Josiah shooting a wedding. Me and Crystal and Chris are at a different wedding or something. , you don't see
Chris: what the other person's done.
Matt: It's really cool to see the weddings. I've never they weren't, you know, I wasn't a lead for them or at, you know, they weren't my client. They were, you know, someone else's. And I get to see it and I'm like truly outside looking in. I'm like, Oh, that was awesome. . That was amazing. I love that.
Yeah. What was the one Just the one that's coming to mind was you did two of them that were really, that really stood out to me. You did. Our, the French couple,
Chris: uh, oh man, I hope I do their names Justice. Uh, Jacquelyn and Jocelyn, or, Yeah. Jack Jacquelyn and Jocelyn or something. So here,
Matt: here's the genius of Chris.
We have the, they, most of their speeches were literally in French. Canadian French. Yeah. And what'd you call it? Quebec wa French or something?
Chris: I think Canadian French is called Quba quo. Okay. But again, so they were not French Don't at me .
Matt: So Chris went and had the translation done on all their speeches and vows and like the ceremony.
And he used that to chop up the parts that he wanted to make the film with. And they were just blown away with it. And you know, we made the effort or like we made the efforts to make sure that it. , uh, presenting French, like it wasn't. , like the way you use dates is different with French versus English.
You know, you don't capitalize dates I don't think, or like
Chris: male and fe like traditional, like female masculine before male or something like that in like a title card. Just simple things like things, I don't know. Or maybe that was more preference, but Yeah. But you know that it's different cuz it's a different language and you wanna do it right.
Matt: And the way you chaptered it out was with French titles, which was really cool. Yeah. And so I, that was really neat to like work with the co the couple to make sure it was good. ,
Chris: Yeah, definitely some collaboration there, which was also new for us a little bit in that
Matt: regards. But yeah, that was really neat.
And then, uh, Colton and Cheyenne's wedding too, like another wedding I wasn't there for. And it was really cool to see you guys made a real for it and it was like funny and catchy and uh, and then the final video was great. And like they were just so thrilled with it. I think they were on, we caught them on their h.
when you published it? Uh, The real, I think it was the real, Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Probably That was like the next week. It was like after the week, like the Monday or Tuesday. Yeah, a week later basically.
Matt: Yeah. Yeah. When we were all cut up on everything. Yeah. But yeah, it was really, it was super neat to see all that kind of thing and like just see these clients like being thrilled to have something to share.
They're so excited to share it. And I'm kind of rambling on here, but so much to talk about. Maybe just in your words, what kind of couple. Is our feature package good for what kind of person? Like when they hopes and desires, who is it? Who's it good for? You can take
Chris: this one .
Josiah: I think anyone that really wants to capture not only not only have those little moments captured with the photos, but able to relive their day down the road.
It might not be a year, but maybe a couple years or five, 10 years and they can watch it with the grand grandkids or something like that. I. , that's something so special for people and like even from personal experience, having the ability to look back at say, my parents' wedding. It's so cool cuz obviously it wasn't there.
But just to be able to see that day and see my parents so young and to relive that and see and watch them watching their film and watching them relive that experiences is so cool to see. So I think anyone that like really wants to. capture their whole day as a whole, should be getting the feature package, if that's something that they want, or if they really have that, uh, spoken word is their love language.
Right? They really like to hear audio. I think that's, it's something that some, someone should get is the photo feature.
Chris: Yeah. I mean, I would say everyone like it's. It's good for, it's good for anybody, but yeah. Uh, some, uh, some people are more, are happier to just have a general overview of the day and then that's fine.
And then you can go with, then go with the keepsake. That's great. That's what that's for. But yeah, those, the people that are maybe concerned that you might miss something as the couple because you're, you know, it'll be busy ahead of time if you're like really concerned that there's something important that you're gonna miss or.
We can capture that for you. And that's what that's there for. Or if you like Yeah, if that's, it's that it's very important to you that you have just everything. Then yeah we've built that to have everything. So, yeah, if you - if you don't wanna' miss out, you don't have to miss out. There's many - there's options.
Matt: We can do it all - is that what you're saying?
Josiah: We can do it all.
Chris: Yes.
Matt: I'll fluff dress. We'll hide a mic. We'll do it all.
Chris: We'll hide many mics.
Josiah: Yeah.
Matt: Well, thanks for joining us on this episode, Chris and Josiah, and thank you to everyone listening. If you wanna see what we can do, definitely check out at our website. If you wanna reach out, we can share kind of what a longer day looks like, what that all looks like.
And if that's maybe the right thing for you, just reach out to us. We can chat about what that looks like. Again, video is not exactly the same from company to company. It varies the most out of what I've seen. So yeah, we do it with a lot of love and care thanks to these two. So, yeah. Thanks for listening and we'll chat soon.
