This is from a company called Paper Tape Films based in LA. They specialize in extremely high-end wedding films. Yes, not your basic video. They’re wedding cinematographers. They film in 8 or 16mm and it is just so gorgeous and timeless. Film elevates everything it captures. It just does. This film is an encapsulation of the day, not a moment by moment, but I would trade a moment-by-moment video in a heartbeat to have something that looks like this instead. For a mere $3- to 8,000. 😉
Oh, but it’s beautiful! Check out the dog. Check out the moment when the groom goes through the white door. You’ll know what I mean. Lump in throat, and I don’t even know these people. So it starts off in New York City …..
Just watch.
(Okay. This is their main page. Look for the list of cities on the lower left. Click on the prompt next to “Denver/Aspen” and you’ll see a continuing list. Click on “New York” to see the one I’m talking about. Click on whichever ones you want, obviously, but I thought I was putting up a link to that particular one. It doesn’t seem to work that way. Believe me, I’ll be watching all of them!)
Beautiful, no?
Wow. Those are impressive.
I think the thing I like about them is that the way they’re filmed, they have more the quality of a memory – the sort of bits-and-pieces of detail, the dreamlike quality. Not as much the “documentary” feel that a lot of filmed records of events have.
ricki — Exactly. It’s dreamlike, the way it’s filmed and edited. But that’s the difference between film and video. One’s an organic/chemical process and one is an electronic process. I mean, to break them down to their elements. MB works in video production — shooting, editing, etc. — and one of the things he does is transfers of old 8 and 16mm film to DVD (he’s taught me how to do it, too). And I love looking at those. You know, everyone’s old family films. Life just looks better on film. It’s softer and warmer and dreamier. Almost kinder, somehow.
It sounds sterile, perhaps, to describe it this way, but it’s that chemical reaction that gives film its visual warmth. Just in its very essence, it’s more human. Which is cool, I think.
Wow! Thanks for posting that….
Those are absolutely gorgeous… but I hesitate to show them to my Ladybug. Oh, she’d love them of course, but these films make our video look like it was shot in crayon. I wanna do-over!
NF — I know what you mean! I still have sleepless nights over my wedding hair.
I finally had the chance to see some of these. Uh, who needs a reception when we could have one of those, right? I need to start saving up for one of those pronto.