We stumbled upon a crazy video from a company called Blnk Films, and we were blown away. So much so that we had to figure out who was behind the camera on the shoot. Turns out, Kathryn Majic created this film. We posted it in our group, and it went kind of crazy. So many amazing shots, so many amazing moments. We break down the film, as well as talk with Kathryn about how she has gone from nothing at all, to a brand that is killing it, in 2 short years. So amazing to see what up and coming filmm...
Sep 23, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Check out Vision Question 2019 - http://bit.ly/2mghk8S We did it. We have arrived. Sculpting With Time is on the How To Film Weddings Podcast. If you don’t know who these people are, Alex and Whitney Douglas are some of the best, if not THE best in the world. They have won pretty much every award there is to win as wedding filmmakers. Their films are mind-glowingly good, and are completely unique. Based in Houston Texas, but travel all around the world shooting gorgeous weddings. John and Nick s...
Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Today we are talking all about 2nd shooting. What should you be looking for in a 2nd shooter? What should you be doing to be a better 2nd shooter? How much should you pay your 2nd shooters? We are joined by our good friend Larry Marshall ( https://bit.ly/2k6F7r9 ) to talk about some of the things he has been doing to build himself a niche in the 2nd shooter industry. Not only does he run his own company, but he 2nd shoots to fill in the gaps in his schedule. He has shot for PenWeddings, Eyenamic...
Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 54
When you poll a group of wedding videographers and ask who their favorite wedding videographer is, the name Forestry Films always pops up. What David and Harmony have done for the “adventurous couples” brand has shifted the way hundreds of filmmakers do what they do. They are an influence in the education space, and have been killing it with their films. Not only do they have some incredible LUTs, they offer the Craft 5K Wedding Films course that is teaching wedding videographers everything they...
Sep 05, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 53
What do we all want? Better SEO!! When do we want it? NOW! But do you really even know what SEO is or how to get it better? Is it something that you can really hire to have done? Squarespace VS. Wordpress. Do you understand how Google works and ranking in the most powerful search engine in the world? If you want to have great SEO you might need to start with understanding exactly what it is! Good news, everyone! Today’s episode we tracked down the amazing talented wedding photographer and SEO ge...
Sep 02, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Youtube. We talk about it all of the time. Literally we can’t stop talking about it. Why? Because it is SO IMPORTANT to your brand. John has grown his channel from 200 subscribers to over 11,000 in the last 2 years. Nick started his channel last year and has passed 6000 subscribers. But who cares about numbers? Well we do, but only when they mean that you will make more money. YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine, and it is owned by Google. This is big. When a bride types in “wedding videos ...
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 51
50 episodes?! How did that happen? It is our 50th episode. We knew we had to something big. We asked all of our famous friends, but they were all busy, so we settled with Aaron Tharpe (kidding). You may have heard of him or a little company called 31 Films. Yeah, that Aaron Tharpe. We think we are really special for having him on the podcast, because he is pretty much a legend in our industry. Not only is he charging $10,000+ for his wedding films, the films themselves are some of the best in th...
Aug 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Shooting 100 weddings in 1 year. We will say that one more time. 100 WEDDINGS IN 1 YEAR. Is this even possible? Would you want to even do this to yourself? Well Kaylor of Kaye Shaye Films did that in 2018. Over 100. This isn’t a podcast to tell you that you should shoot 100 weddings in a year. Rather a conversation with Kaylor about all she has been up to, the HARD WORK she has put in to grow her business into a 6 figure company. We also talk about the video. Yes, that video. If you haven’t seen...
Aug 12, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 49
YouTube, Instagram and Facebook - oh my! When should I post? How often should I post? What platform is right? Can Nick say Pinterest correctly? We answer YOUR questions and MORE in our most recent Facebook LIVE Q&A. We took questions from people in our Facebook group (did you know we had a Facebook group!?) and Instagram (we have one of those too) and our live chat! We always have the best time when we record these LIVE podcasts Q&A episodes. So grab some coffee, put on the head phone an...
Aug 08, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 48
John sits down with Henry Martens of The Brothers Martens to ask all of the questions about his upcoming trip to Italy, to film his first International destination wedding. The Brothers Martens travel all around the world shooting weddings, and although John has shot nearly 500 weddings, he hasn’t ever traveled outside of the U.S. to film one. John and Henry chat about all of the things to be thinking about to travel for a wedding (not just internationally). What to pack, what to leave at home, ...
Aug 05, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 47
📍Try out TubeBuddy the best tool to help grow your YouTube account: https://bit.ly/2DRHMfC Youtube. You know that video platform that is owned by Google? The #2 biggest search engine in the world? Yeah, you need to be killing it on there. The truth is, that are not on Vimeo looking for wedding videographers. Other film makers are on Vimeo. So are you too late to join the YouTube game, or is it too late to take it seriously? Absolutely not. Now is the time to take your YouTube channel to the nex...
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 46
🖥 🛒 Visit the How To Film Weddings Website & Shop: https://bit.ly/2X5PoSz We’ve all seen the “typical” wedding video. The couple loves it, but does it TRULY inspire you as a film maker? Do you feel like you created something that nobody else on the planet could have created? We all get in a rut of just pumping out edits, and getting into a routine with the way we do things. Let’s queue up our conversation with Josh Helton, of A Little Long Distance. If you haven’t seen their work, they tak...
Jul 22, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 45
🖥 🛒 Visit the How To Film Weddings Website & Shop: https://bit.ly/2X5PoSz The dreaded wedding hangover. Ever had one? If you've been in this industry very long you know that it is a REAL THING. We see posts week after week about how so many are DEAD the day after a wedding. But what if we told you that you never had to have a wedding hangover again!? Nick is joined by his awesome wife Jenn this week on the podcast and they talk about how they haven't had a wedding hang over in 2+ years! Je...
Jul 15, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 44
🖥 🛒 Visit the How To Film Weddings Website & Shop: https://bit.ly/2X5PoSz See all of the details from The Wedding Film Retreat Here https://bit.ly/2L566iH We have been waiting to have these two on the How To Film Weddings Podcast for some time, and are SO EXCITED to bring you Rick and Sarah Pendergraft of PenWeddings. Widely acclaimed as the best wedding story tellers on the planet, these two literally travel the globe filming extravagant weddings with beautiful stories. When you watch a P...
Jul 08, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Matt Johnson's Wedding Film Framework Course: https://bit.ly/2Xsmhx1 Hold onto your beards, today we are joined by none other than Matt Johnson for a LIVE Q&A we recorded inside our Facebook group (join right here: https://bit.ly/2YC0P5e). We answer YOUR questions about anything and everything! We took questions from our Facebook group, Instagram page, and live while we were recording! Such great info from a true wedding legend. We also talk about Matt’s BRAND NEW class teaching you how to e...
Jul 05, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 42
🖥 🛒 Visit the How To Film Weddings Website & Shop to purchase the BRAND NEW Consultation Guide: https://bit.ly/2X5PoSz We have all been there before. We finally get a meeting set up with a potential couple, and we really don't know what we should do to make the biggest impact. How can we make more money, and not come across as a sleazy salesman? How can we get to a point in our industry where we are respected enough to charge larger amounts? John and Nick sit down with Jonathan and Kaye (h...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 41
🎶 Be sure to check out MusicBed, and their amazing membership program. Use PROMO code HTFW for 1 month free of your wedding subscription service: https://bit.ly/2QQwW0B Bonus episode presented by MUSICBED coming your way! In this month’s live Facebook Q&A we are talking all about business, contracts, consultations, and packages! Join Nick and John as they host the live Facebook Q&A for the Month of June inside of the How To Film Weddings Facebook Group (https://bit.ly/2DPCelB). We took ...
Jun 27, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 40
🍯📖 Save $200 & Get a Free Week Trial of Honeybook: https://bit.ly/31N9pQF What makes you different? Do you hate that you can't be like everyone else? Are you constantly comparing your work to someone else's thinking you will never get there? We do this all of the time. We are our worst critic, and we usually try to hide the quirks that make us different than everyone else. When John met Eric Floberg at Venture Workshop, it was love at first sight. Not really, he was actually kind of like "...
Jun 24, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 39
🍯📖 Save $200 & Get a Free Week Trial of Honeybook: https://bit.ly/2WGZY1z Processing payments, sending contracts, keeping up with details. It can all get a little overwhelming when running a business. Let's face it, we only have so much time in the day. Most of us are a one or two person company, and the details can get the best of you if you aren't careful. This is why we LOVE using CRMs. What is a CRM? How can it help your business? What if you could run your entire business through one ...
Jun 17, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 38
🖥 🛒 Visit the How To Film Weddings Website & Shop: https://bit.ly/2X5PoSz Facebook ads don't work for me. Marketing on social media is a waste of money. Most all of us have said this from time to time. But what if we were just doing it wrong? What if there was a way to make more money, and find your ideal clients by using the tools created in Instagram and Facebook? We stumbled upon Max Sadik a few months back, and he is literally crushing it when it comes to Facebook and Instagram Ads. No...
Jun 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 37
🖥 🛒 Visit the How To Film Weddings Website & Shop: https://bit.ly/2X5PoSz Nick and John sit down to answer YOUR questions. We went live inside of our Facebook Group (https://bit.ly/2DPCelB) and had YOU drop questions for us to discuss. We LOVE the interaction we get with you all in that group, especially in real time as we record. Each month we sit down for an hour to do this, and everyone seems to be loving it! So throw in those ear buds, grab a cup of whatever it is you drink, and enjoy ...
Jun 06, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 36
While John was out at Venture Workshop, he sat down with David and Breanna from Archaius Creative to talk to them about what all they were teaching at the workshop, and to hear a little more about what they can offer to our community. If you don't know, they are and editing house based in Southern California with 15 team members to help come alongside you as an extension of your team. They can cull your footage, all the way through completely editing it for you. They have colorists, sound engine...
Jun 03, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 35
We have all been there. We wake up, open up our banking app, and see a negative balance. We frantically try to figure out what we can sell, what isn't bolted down at our house, and we wonder why we ever got into business for ourselves in the first place. It sucks. Straight up can drive someone to a state of depression if you aren't careful. So what do we do to make sure this never happens again? Earn more? Spend Less? A lot of us creatives think we can out earn our stupidity when it comes to han...
May 27, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Hold up, wait a minute. Did that just happen? We are still pinching ourselves to make sure this really happened. John was able to sit down with ALL of the speakers from Venture Workshop (https://bit.ly/2VEjdwV) for a LIVE Q&A in front of all of the attendees. We took questions from our Facebook Group (https://bit.ly/2DPCelB), our Instagram page (http://bit.ly/2z2NuIA), and we took questions from the live studio audience. We had fun, we answered some tough questions, and we all teared up a li...
May 20, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 33
We are pumped to release this brand new episode of the How To Film Weddings Podcast! This week is a recording from our LIVE Facebook Q&A we had in April. John and Nick sat down to answer any and every question that was thrown our way. We love our Facebook community, and are amazed at how fast it has grown. We are now able to do things like this, where YOU the listener can help us create content that is not only timely, but relatable to what you are actually going through. We promise that one...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Not going to lie, we pretty much just laughed and cut up for an hour when we talked to Mac and Erin from Hello Tomorrow Films. They are so full of personality, and it is refreshing. To be honest, they felt like friends. Which is exactly what we talked about with them. How to infuse your personality into your brand. How to make yourself stand out and be attractive to the IDEAL clients for you. John stumbled about Hello Tomorrow Films last year, and was immediately drawn in. Mainly because of a vi...
May 06, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 31
$0 to $100,000 in 2 years. That is what Jake Weisler has done with his business. Is this typical? Not at all. So how did he do it? Spoiler alert, he put in a TON of work, has incredible films, and knows how to build his brand (mainly on Instagram). Don't worry, we talk through exactly what he has done to grow his business in a relatively short amount of time. We talk about it on the podcast all of the time. The Crockpot method, not the microwave. This might feel like a microwave. But it isn't. H...
Apr 29, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 30
We might be a little too excited about this week’s episode of The How To Film Weddings Podcast. Joining us today are Jay and Mack, from Jay and Mack Films. This husband and wife team is based in San Diego, California, and has come out of nowhere and quickly become one of the most talented crews out there. The style and versatility that they bring to their edits is so unique and creative that it will make you wish you had thought of it first. When watching their films, you have no idea what is go...
Apr 22, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Let’s be honest, most of us suck when it comes to capturing clean audio on the wedding day. It’s something that videographers really don’t take enough time to really pay attention to when they get started. We just get what we can, and try to work with it. But more and more of us are really diving into how to get the best audio possible for our couples. What microphones should you use? How can you get the best audio for letters or speeches? We are so excited for a BRAND NEW episode of the How To ...
Apr 15, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 28
John was able to go to WPPI in Las Vegas this year, and scope out all of the new things they are doing for the Wedding Videography community. A couple hours after flying in, John sat down with Charlie Hilbrant, of Charlie Hilbrant films to talk. It was a bit weird, as it was the first in-person podcast that we have done before. (Much easier to edit by the way). We decided to record the podcast right inside the casino, so if you hear some bells and dings, that would be Vegas! Charlie and John tal...
Apr 08, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 27
