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If you know anything about how to create a good story, you know that a fundamental part of what makes it interesting is the drama. We like to think of shadows as the only bit of drama allowed on a wedding day. haha Yes, we love bright, cheery footage. A lot of times it’s what tells and represents the couple best! Occasionally though, we’ll bump up the “sexy" on a wedding day and play a little more with shadows.

PROCESS:
When we’re capturing a wedding day, we’re interpreting not only the couple’s personality into our footage but the feeling and the mood of the day as well. Each wedding feels different to us as we enter into a day of emotional teary eyes or loud music and fist pumping. Sometimes it’s a mixture of both!

As we’re filming throughout the day, we’re looking for ways to interpret the feeling of the wedding day and sometimes that feeling is interpreted well through using dramatic shadows and sexy low light. Sometimes filling a shot with shadows can move your viewers eyes directly to the one corner of the frame that has light pouring in. Sometimes we use shadows to bring movement into a shot even if that looks like one of us filming and the other one walking around by the window. Sometimes we bump the lights off and use silhouettes to show surrounding locations and what’s going on outside. The possibilities are endless and it can truly be so much fun once you start getting creative with this. Start by asking permission to flip off the lights, opening up the blinds, looking around the room at harsh or soft light pouring in, and get to filming.

Keep in mind that this type of footage doesn’t always interpret a wedding day’s mood, but when it does it’s so much fun not only to film but to play with while you’re editing.

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