I've Been Published Again!

If you are a bride or groom this won't have much impact for you, but it never ceases to be exciting for me when a magazine publishes anything that I write! So to toot my own horn, WEVA (Wedding & Event Videographers Association International) published my review of SpeedEDIT.

Brian

Photoshop Mistakes

I found this great website that details Photoshop mistakes with a wicked sense of humor. It is a laugh riot. Below is one of my favorite images. Evidently Thing from the Adams Family is loose in Great Briton.



Check out the Photoshop Disasters

Wedding Trailer

Untitled from Allure Films on Vimeo.

See the full video here: Matt

JoAnn & Marc

JoAnn and Marc were married on May 24, 2008 at the beautiful St. Joseph Church in Mishawaka. We had a lot of fun at this wedding.


Video: River City Productions / Allure Films
Photography: Zehring Photography
Church: St. Joseph, Mishawaka
Reception: Blue Heron, South Bend
Entertainment: ProShow
Cake: Macri's
Decorations: Wygants Floral

Rachel and Ivan at the Palais Royale

Here is our latest trailer for Rachel and Ivan. They had a really fun wedding at Palais Royale. Enjoy!



Wedding Video by Allure Films
Decorations by Michael Angelos
Photographer Alpha Zeta
Wedding & Reception at Palais Royale
Cake by Rascia's Creative Cakes

Mark and Maria A Wedding Trailer

Mark and Maria were married at the Notre Dame Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the reception followed at the Century Center White Water Ballroom. You couldn't ask for a more fun couple to document the day of. As you can see by the end of the trailer they were dancing on the altar, almost. And at the reception it was a non stop party with the happy newlyweds constantly on the dance floor. In fact the difficulty with this wedding film will be the abundance of great dance footage.

New feature: This is a wedding trailer video and as it's name indicates it is designed to preview the upcoming edited video. I played with a few of these years ago, in fact I think I'll go dig out my original one, and then promptly forgot about them. This year I am brining them back. The fun thing about them is this is where I can really experiment and play with new ways of editing videos. You will notice at the beginning of this video after the intros (and can you have a more fun intro) you can hear a voice track over the video and song of the bride and grooms vows. Yes it was intentional to have them talk over each other with the grooms vows coming up just after the bride starts speaking hers. Just an experiment but I think it's fun and if you'd like let me know what you think of it.

Also take note the images of the dome and the basilica were shot of super 8mm film! I love the look of film.

So enjoy the wedding of Mark and Maria.

Music is Stolen by Dashboard Confessional

Wedding Demo

Here is our new wedding film demo. When I got done with this I realized it has been 10 years since I actually created one of these. For years I've preferred using actual finished product as our demo reels. But then one day I was suffering a creative block while editing and to work through it I started throwing clips on the timeline just for fun. Half a day later I had this:

I think it's a lot of fun. It is made up of a lot of my favorite scenes from the last several years. Digging some of them up was a real trip down memory lane.

The music used in this video is:
Sewn by The Feeling
Love Song by Sara Bareilles


wedding video from Allure Films on Vimeo.

Locations in this video
Notre Dame Basilica of the Sacred Heart
South Bend Century Center
Saint Matthews Church
Saint Hedwig
Notre Dame Grotto
Palais Royale
Elcona Country Club

Great Music

For years as a disc jockey I ended the night with a two song combination, Last Dance by Donna Summer and What A Wonderful World by Louie Armstrong. Lately though the last song has been this great one from Michael Buble

Katie & Matt

http://rivercityproductions.net/matt_katie_2007.shtml

Celebrated Events

One of my favorite wedding coordinators is Cynthia Basker from Celebrated Events. When working with Cynthia I know the wedding day will flow like a well oiled machine. But what Cynthia is really known for is her decorating style, her receptions are always a burst of color and beautiful to look at and film.

In this clip from a wedding we worked with Cynthia, last year, we captured the bride and groom's reaction to the decorations that Cyndi designed with Michaelangelos. This is why I love video, pictures could never do this moment justice! The reception took place at the Palais Royale.

This may take a few moments to load as for some reason the video preloads before giving you the option of playing.. I'm experimenting with new codec mp4 and larger images for streaming to better present our videos. Let me know what you think.