Last week I went with Taryn and Sean to the WIPA Launch party. WIPA, a national organization, is the Wedding Industry Professionals Association, and the event last week launched the Phoenix chapter. Serendipity is a founding member in Phoenix, and so we volunteered to do a short Promo! I LOVE this song (I literally can not restrain myself from dancing every single time I listen to it), so don't be surprised if you hear it again in my other videos!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Forgotten
So, sometimes I forget about videos I do. This Save the Date video was fun to do - I helped Jeff shoot it, and the couple was super fun to work with!! Our downfall came when we allowed the couple to be too creatively involved (that needs to be shut down as soon as things begin!!!); they wanted to choose the song and went back and forth about songs for a long time. In the end, I'm pretty dang happy with how it turned out. I especially like the text. Lots of design time went into it (and I'm only being slightly sarcastic about that).
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Katie + Michael Save the Date from Serendipity Videography on Vimeo.
Film Making 101
Ok, so I have my opinions about this video... but please watch for yourself, and then read what I have to say!!
Rachel + Tanner from Serendipity Videography on Vimeo.
I think that the first 4 minutes of this video could stand by itself. Just cut it off, and that's all you really need!!! I LOVE the first 4 minutes!!!
I feel like the rest of it is ok... but I feel like it's mostly just filler for the next 21 minutes. Yeah, there are some pretty shots, and some nice audio clips, but I just don't feel like the last 21 minutes compare to the first 4.
Am I all alone in this? Thoughts? Please discuss.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Just a Quick Run-Down
So, I thought today about how I haven't updated this blog lately. No new videos to post, but here's quick run-down of my life:
1. Being a thousand miles from your fiance sucks. Just in case you didn't know. It's probably the worst thing. Especially when all of your roommates are out on dates with their boyfriends, and you're sulking in your bedroom all night.
2. I'm FINALLY making a new quilt!! I'm making it for my friend's family, and just in case they somehow get access to this, I won't get into specifics, but I imagine I will post pictures once it is finished.
3. I bought a Groupon for Hot Yoga and went for the first time last Saturday. I imagine that Hot Yoga will be similar in my life to "donating" plasma - I'll do it, but I'll hate every second of it, and be REALLY happy when it's over.
4. Wedding planning is stressful. I don't want to talk about it.
5. I hate being apart from Jeff.
6. I've started on a diet/exercise routine with my friend Michelle. I REALLY need to be able to fit into my wedding dress in July. I think I've lost 4 pounds... That's not very many.
7. I'm not a very good Relief Society President... But I try to look like I am. I can't tell if that's bad, or if it's good.
8. I took my car into the dealership today and they told me that I needed to get my differential fluid drained. They told me that they would do it for $130 (each - front and rear). I called a few other places - one said that they would do it for $90-100 each, and the other place said $59-89 each. The lowest price is obviously the cheapest, but it makes me a little nervous - Why is it so cheap? I'm almost tempted to pay more because I feel like I'd be getting a better product.
9. I was going to post a picture of the flowers that my Fiance had delivered to me, but I can't find my camera.
10. I love him.
11. Why is he still in Rexburg?
12. To end things off, here is the most hilarious email that my mom sent me this evening. As background; Samantha in real life is turning 20 at the end of the month, and we're thinking about possibly having our family lunch on Campus before the wedding. Also, BYU-Idaho is in the middle of farm land in Idaho.
I read this tonight when I was in a house by myself, and was loudly laugh/crying. I hope you enjoy it as much. So, from here on out, these are my mom's words:
I hope you made it out of the slammer........
Love, Mom
1. Being a thousand miles from your fiance sucks. Just in case you didn't know. It's probably the worst thing. Especially when all of your roommates are out on dates with their boyfriends, and you're sulking in your bedroom all night.
2. I'm FINALLY making a new quilt!! I'm making it for my friend's family, and just in case they somehow get access to this, I won't get into specifics, but I imagine I will post pictures once it is finished.
3. I bought a Groupon for Hot Yoga and went for the first time last Saturday. I imagine that Hot Yoga will be similar in my life to "donating" plasma - I'll do it, but I'll hate every second of it, and be REALLY happy when it's over.
4. Wedding planning is stressful. I don't want to talk about it.
5. I hate being apart from Jeff.
6. I've started on a diet/exercise routine with my friend Michelle. I REALLY need to be able to fit into my wedding dress in July. I think I've lost 4 pounds... That's not very many.
7. I'm not a very good Relief Society President... But I try to look like I am. I can't tell if that's bad, or if it's good.
8. I took my car into the dealership today and they told me that I needed to get my differential fluid drained. They told me that they would do it for $130 (each - front and rear). I called a few other places - one said that they would do it for $90-100 each, and the other place said $59-89 each. The lowest price is obviously the cheapest, but it makes me a little nervous - Why is it so cheap? I'm almost tempted to pay more because I feel like I'd be getting a better product.
9. I was going to post a picture of the flowers that my Fiance had delivered to me, but I can't find my camera.
10. I love him.
11. Why is he still in Rexburg?
12. To end things off, here is the most hilarious email that my mom sent me this evening. As background; Samantha in real life is turning 20 at the end of the month, and we're thinking about possibly having our family lunch on Campus before the wedding. Also, BYU-Idaho is in the middle of farm land in Idaho.
I read this tonight when I was in a house by myself, and was loudly laugh/crying. I hope you enjoy it as much. So, from here on out, these are my mom's words:
Afternoon naps are bazarrie. I slept for three hours and am still tired - but my dog was jumping on my face, so I had to get up.
Anyway, I had a dream that you had super long hair - past your butt. We were in a class at BYU-I and you were taking a test, but I was just waiting. You had been going on for almost an hour and a half when two girls came in, made you stand up, measured your hair and said it was too long for you to take a BYU-I test. Then they start to escort you out and your face says " This is the stupidest thing ever - like, didn't they notice this when I walked in?" but you don't say anything, so I stand up and yell "she's not even a student" and one girl says "the same rules apply to non-traditional students and we can take her diploma away for this." Then they take you off someplace to talk to a judge, and I can't find out where you are because Samantha ( who is only four years old) had wandered off and I can't find her, so have to leave you on your own while I look for her. But every room I look into, I wonder "would this be good for a wedding reception?" I finally found her down by the edge of the ocean playing in the sand, which runs along the edge of campus. But I never saw you again.
I hope you made it out of the slammer........
Love, Mom
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Theatre People
This couple met doing Theatre in college. Having done Theatre in High School myself, it was easy for me to see that, and to identify them and their friends as "Theatre People." Taryn said that this was not going to be our average couple, but I still wanted to make their film Fab. I LOVE the music, and I love their ceremony and all of the cool stuff that they did. Sometimes weddings are all about the spectacle or the tradition or whatever, but I really felt like their day was really a day focused on their relationship and their love. I love that they had their pre-ceremony and the Rabbi had all of their friends and family go around and bless them with something, I love her one single tear during the ceremony at 10:46, I love that their bridal party all were able to participate in the ceremony, and I LOVE that immediately after they were married they weren't immediately surrounded by people and being congratulated, but that they were able to go off by themselves and spend the beginning of their marriage alone. I wish I had gone to this wedding because they seem like so much fun!! Ok, well, enjoy!
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal... And a Happy New Year!
So, I had every intention of sending out Christmas cards for the first year of my life... But, what with working like crazy, going on a cruise, getting engaged and hanging out with my fiance for two weeks, I let it slip through the cracks - no need to stress myself out more than I need to over something that didn't matter and that nobody really expected anyway!!
But, I was thinking about it more today; I think that it would mostly just be something fun for me to review my year.
So, 2011 started out with me leaving home for the first real time (because going out to college when I was 18, and going on my Mission when I was 21 don't count because in both cases I didn't have to support myself). I went to Phoenix to work as an unpaid intern for Serendipity Videography. My friend Emily's mother got me a job during the morning as a receptionist at the Senior Living Center she was the Director of! I lived with my old mission companion Melissa in a house 2-doors down from her parents, where we enjoyed Family dinner every night, and Sunday afternoons lounging, eating, and watching Sunday appropriate (but not necessarily religious) movies.
I returned to Rexburg for my last semester at BYU-Idaho. There I met back up with and started dating Jeff, who I had known for about a year already. After the first date I came home and Matt Hire's song "You are the One" started playing over and over in my head. I knew then that this was going to turn into something big.
Unfortunately, I had a LOT going on between working at the radio station, having 9 classes, trying to work on a 50-hour Senior Project, having a substantial calling in my Ward, and doing the sound for the play on campus, AND having a boyfriend that after only 3 weeks I broke up with him for lack of time. I got home that night after doing the deed and regretted it. For one entire week the feelings I felt were comparable only to how one feels when they learn that someone close to them has died. We decided we were both happier together than apart, decided to forget the whole 'breaking-up ' thing, and agreed to do the whole "long distance" thing after Graduation.
I looked forward to graduation with excitement and disdain, both excited to be FINALLY finished after 12 semesters, and sad to have to be apart from Jeff. But I figured that long-distance wouldn't be too bad.
Well, I was wrong.
I worked 3 weeks as an EFY counselor in late July and early August were incredibly fun, not only because of the youth that I was in charge of, but also because of my co-counselors and friends that I made. It was a rejuvenation of spirit, but definitely not one of body. I came home and lounged around, spending my days sleeping and talking to Jeff on the phone - one Saturday we talked for 6 hours (not continuously).
I had a short visit to Boise to meet Jeff's parents before driving with all of my possessions down go Arizona again. I stayed at my boss' home for two or three weeks before finally finding a place of my own!
Fall brought a prison sentence for Jeff (his new job teaching in the federal minimum security prison), a few trips for each of us, and LOTS of shooting weddings and gaining experience for me.
December brought a week with my family on a cruise ship in Mexico, and a trip to Boise. One engagement later, Jeff and I are planning a wedding for 2012.
So here we are; I'm starting out 2012 with a degree, an engagement ring, and a wedding to plan. I'm the Relief Society President with a full-time job, and no social life because my fiance lives thousands of miles away! I've got some big plans for 2012; a graduation (Jeff's), a wedding, and a marriage, each of which will include some major lifestyle changes. (Who has lived alone with one boy before? Not this girl!!)
So, 2012 - Here's looking at you, kid!
But, I was thinking about it more today; I think that it would mostly just be something fun for me to review my year.
So, 2011 started out with me leaving home for the first real time (because going out to college when I was 18, and going on my Mission when I was 21 don't count because in both cases I didn't have to support myself). I went to Phoenix to work as an unpaid intern for Serendipity Videography. My friend Emily's mother got me a job during the morning as a receptionist at the Senior Living Center she was the Director of! I lived with my old mission companion Melissa in a house 2-doors down from her parents, where we enjoyed Family dinner every night, and Sunday afternoons lounging, eating, and watching Sunday appropriate (but not necessarily religious) movies.
I returned to Rexburg for my last semester at BYU-Idaho. There I met back up with and started dating Jeff, who I had known for about a year already. After the first date I came home and Matt Hire's song "You are the One" started playing over and over in my head. I knew then that this was going to turn into something big.
Unfortunately, I had a LOT going on between working at the radio station, having 9 classes, trying to work on a 50-hour Senior Project, having a substantial calling in my Ward, and doing the sound for the play on campus, AND having a boyfriend that after only 3 weeks I broke up with him for lack of time. I got home that night after doing the deed and regretted it. For one entire week the feelings I felt were comparable only to how one feels when they learn that someone close to them has died. We decided we were both happier together than apart, decided to forget the whole 'breaking-up ' thing, and agreed to do the whole "long distance" thing after Graduation.
I looked forward to graduation with excitement and disdain, both excited to be FINALLY finished after 12 semesters, and sad to have to be apart from Jeff. But I figured that long-distance wouldn't be too bad.
Well, I was wrong.
I worked 3 weeks as an EFY counselor in late July and early August were incredibly fun, not only because of the youth that I was in charge of, but also because of my co-counselors and friends that I made. It was a rejuvenation of spirit, but definitely not one of body. I came home and lounged around, spending my days sleeping and talking to Jeff on the phone - one Saturday we talked for 6 hours (not continuously).
I had a short visit to Boise to meet Jeff's parents before driving with all of my possessions down go Arizona again. I stayed at my boss' home for two or three weeks before finally finding a place of my own!
Fall brought a prison sentence for Jeff (his new job teaching in the federal minimum security prison), a few trips for each of us, and LOTS of shooting weddings and gaining experience for me.
December brought a week with my family on a cruise ship in Mexico, and a trip to Boise. One engagement later, Jeff and I are planning a wedding for 2012.
So here we are; I'm starting out 2012 with a degree, an engagement ring, and a wedding to plan. I'm the Relief Society President with a full-time job, and no social life because my fiance lives thousands of miles away! I've got some big plans for 2012; a graduation (Jeff's), a wedding, and a marriage, each of which will include some major lifestyle changes. (Who has lived alone with one boy before? Not this girl!!)
So, 2012 - Here's looking at you, kid!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Blast from the Past (but just barely)
So, way back when I was an intern with grand visions of owning my own company, I asked my friends (via Facebook) who was getting married and wanted me to film their wedding. Well, Brittney won and, so in the middle of my last the semester I skipped all of my Friday classes and trekked down to Utah!! Brittney and I met at church when we were... well, her family moved into town the summer before 8th grade, so... 1999?... Yep, that's it. Anyway, it was neat being able to meet her husband and see her family again. I loved their wedding, and I loved being there, and I just love Brittney!
It's obviously not quite up to Serendipity's standards, considering I used cameras I had rented from school, I did most of the filming myself (mom came with me and helped a little), and ran into a LOT of problems I was not prepared for... but if you take all of those things into consideration, I'd say I did a dang good job with it. I try and never make something I don't really like or love, so I'm pretty proud of this one! It was also my first LDS wedding, which was really a lot different of an experience... and it was really fun not having a specific time limit it had to be. If this film was any longer I would really struggled to make it any good.
Oh my goodness, I just watched it for the first time in a few months... I love this film!! Some of the shots are shaky, but overall, I love it. Anyway, enjoy their film!
It's obviously not quite up to Serendipity's standards, considering I used cameras I had rented from school, I did most of the filming myself (mom came with me and helped a little), and ran into a LOT of problems I was not prepared for... but if you take all of those things into consideration, I'd say I did a dang good job with it. I try and never make something I don't really like or love, so I'm pretty proud of this one! It was also my first LDS wedding, which was really a lot different of an experience... and it was really fun not having a specific time limit it had to be. If this film was any longer I would really struggled to make it any good.
Oh my goodness, I just watched it for the first time in a few months... I love this film!! Some of the shots are shaky, but overall, I love it. Anyway, enjoy their film!
Brittney + Mark from Sarah Hill on Vimeo.
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