Celebrating 10 years: Local Film Festival Trailer

Here's another project we've been working on, this one for the ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival here in our new/old home, Peterborough, ON! ReFrame happens every January, during the coldest weekend of the year, and it was our pleasure to create a video for them for their 10th anniversary next weekend January 24th-January 26th, 2014. Very cool stuff. We interviewed a number of people who have been with the festival since the start, and some who have only recently become involved, but all of whom love the festival and have had great experiences attending it. The video itself will be premiered at their opening gala, so here's the trailer for now. We'll release the full video online once the festival's over, so look out for it!

KEEPING UP

As you may know, we use Vimeo to host all our wedding videos. It's a great online, free platform for uploading your videos, and they also put a lot of energy into helping people develop their video skills, by offering online tutorials, and this pretty awesome thing they call the Weekend Challenge. Matt participated in one recently, the challenge being to create a video haiku. A 17 second video, broken into a 5 second clip, a 7 second clip and a 5 second clip (like a haiku!). Here's his entry, which he's pretty proud of. It was a neat little exercise, fun to do, and we think it turned out great.

Jordan and Becky ||| New Years Eve Wedding

Happy New Year! With the crazy icestorm that hit Ontario a few week ago, our holidays were a bit play it by ear, so Matt and I had no idea if we would be able to shoot my cousin's wedding on New Years Eve. The days passed and eventually power was restored to the good, bad, beautiful and sketchy people of Ontario.  The streets were mostly clear that day and we made it safely into Oshawa for the evening nuptials. Neither of us had ever been to a wedding that took place entirely after 7pm. We love shooting weddings that are different than the traditional fan fare. It gives us room to be creative and we find it really reflects the personality of each couple and how they'll move forward in their lives together. Jordan and Becky were no exception. They had personalized vows for a short and sweet ceremony and then it was party time! My family busted many crazy moves on the dance floor which was a surprise to all. I have to give Matt credit for this video. Being almost 6 months pregnant, and since it was my family's first wedding, I thought I'd like to take it easy and direct from my comfy chair and pile of delicious sweets. Matt did all the filming and editing and I stepped in afterwards with the colour grading and a bit of supervisory editing. All in all, although we flew by the seat of our pants for this one, we think it turned out great! It feels so good to be back at work after many ups and downs these past few months. 2014 looks promising for Love and Anchor Cinematography. 

Happy Spring! Win 50% Off Wedding Videography

Spring has sprung

the grass has ris'

I wonder where the birdies is

The bird is on the wing

That's absurd! 

The wing is on the bird

That funny little poem is what my Grandfather would recite every spring. In honour of Spring, we're going to get a little crazy and give away 50% off a full day of wedding videography.  WHAT? You say. That's a pretty big deal! WE KNOW!

There are a ton of chances to enter and you have the entire month of April to get in as many entries as possible.

Here are the rules

1. Answer the skill testing question
2. Use any of the other ways listed to enter
3. Come back every day to gain more entries!
4. Every time someone indicates they were referred by you, you gain one more entry in the contest, so share with your friends.
5. You must be getting married in 2013

It's that simple!

On May 1st we'll draw for a winner.* Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Package value before HST and travel fees: $2750. 
Winner will receive 50% off (making the package cost approximately $1375, not including HST and any applicable travel fees). Winner must book no later than 30 days after being notified*

Kirsten & Shawn Pt. 1

This wedding was quite unique. First of all, it was a surprise. The only people who really knew it was going to happen were close family. All the other guests thought they were showing up to an annual Christmas party. Kirsten and Shawn had planned the whole thing in a short few weeks, choosing to be married amongst a small and intimate group of loved ones at a friends' house. They pulled it off beautifully. Everyone was surprised, and delighted and ecstatic that their regular Christmas party had turned into something much more special. Kirsten crafted some wonderful decorations, from the stars hanging from the branches outside, to the delicious maple bacon cupcakes inside. And, of course, the mason jars scattered throughout the backyard were perfect. Shawn even put together the wooden benches on which the guests sat! It all gave the whole experience the cozy, wintery feel we were hoping to capture.

At this point in the game, all the weddings we do have some kind of first for us. This was the first wedding where we did both video and photos. Matt shot video, Steph snapped photos, and this was an interesting challenge for us, as we're used to having two angles at all times when doing video. But this also turned out to be the perfect wedding for this development. It was small enough that widespread coverage wasn't necessary - we could each get everything we wanted fairly easily.

And this was the first time we had left Rowan with a babysitter. At just under three months, it was interesting driving away from our friend's house, knowing we wouldn't see him for the next 12 hours. But it all went off without a hitch. Rowan was fine, we had loads of fun, and Kirsten and Shawn (and their family and friends) had a great time during the wedding, and loved watching the video after!