Sometimes someone creates something so fresh and out of the box that people can’t help but stop and take notice. Today, Andrew and I are sitting down with wedding photographer David Le, who created a Wes Anderson inspired, stop motion masterpiece of a film that was nominated for Junebug's best wedding film 2021. However, the catch here is that it was so time consuming and difficult to create, that he will never make anything like it again. And so today’s show is about trying new things, learning...
Sep 20, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 16
We’ve talked a bit about being an empathetic filmmaker on this podcast before and today’s guest is yet another example of why this skill is a vital piece of the puzzle when it comes to making truly unique and standout work. Being able to connect with your couples first and foremost and make a film that’s for them, not for you or your ego as a creative, but for them is what results in art that has substance behind it. Monika’s work is beautiful, raw, delicate and timeless. She’s one of those crea...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Grace got a HUGE amount of DMs after posting her latest wedding film asking how in the heck she did what she did! So today we are answering all your questions and breaking this edit down piece by piece. If you haven't seen the film yet, make sure you check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CS5CFCoBdqX/ This is basically a mini masterclass in editing techniques from the legend herself so settle in and get the notepad ready! Today's episode is sponsored by Musicbed - Get the first month of...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This podcast is all about helping you find and develop your unique style of wedding filmmaking, something that your couples will see and think “that’s us, that’s what we want!”. But this often goes beyond the films themselves, couples connect with the filmmaker as much as the films and so on today’s show, we’re talking to UK videographer Russell Kent Nicholls about his all-round approach to how he portrays his films, his brand and himself through social media. Russell has managed to combine his ...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 13
We often have a certain style of film that we prefer to create, whether it’s more moody and “cinematic” or fun and upbeat, but the reality is that most weddings contain a full spectrum of emotions and energies. Today I’m talking to Stanton Giles of @filmsbystanton because his work, I feel, is a rare example that shows the full spectrum of emotions on a wedding day. On today’s show we’ll be breaking down Stanton’s work and figuring out how he transitions between the light and shade, the highs and...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 12
I’ve had a few types of episodes on my to-do list since rebranding this podcast and today is one of those episodes. Today we are looking at music videos to see what we can learn from them, what ideas we can add to our toolbox and how we might adapt them for wedding films. Now today we’ll just be looking at a small selection of music videos to come out recently because the idea for this kind of episode is that we can revisit it again and look at different types of music videos from different eras...
Jul 12, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Malcolm Gladwell describes his famous “10,000 hours” heuristic as a symbol for the fact that the time needed to develop an innate understanding for a particular skill is most likely longer than any of us anticipate at the outset. On today’s episode I’m joined by the incredibly talented Gione da Silva, who shares basically a whole two day workshop worth of content on lighting, composition, posing and editing into this hour and a half long episode. There are no quick fixes when it comes to being a...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 10
No Grace or Andrew today team, I'm flying solo! ----------------------------------- We’re often chasing a certain aesthetic or style in our work, light and airy, dark and moody, fun, cinematic, emotional, whatever it is we are constantly trying to get our work closer to the image of it that’s in our heads. Some of us take a very methodical, structured approach while others rely more heavily on their intuition. Today I’m joined by Kathryn Majic from Blnk Films, who is firmly in the latter camp. K...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 9
On our instagram page I have a little line in the bio that invites people to DM us if they want to review their films. Our guest today, Sid from House on the Clouds, a Mumbai based wedding film and photo company took up that offer and sent me a message asking for a critique of his latest film and I was absolutely mind blow, it was incredible. I wrote back immediately and said you have to come on the show! and he agreed. For anyone unlucky enough, like myself two weeks ago to have never seen Hous...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Christian O'Reilly from the award winning UK based photo and video company Fire and Ice joins Andrew, Grace and myself for an epic episode to share how he and his 12 person studio create crazy, epic, unique, boundary pushing films. The three of us walked away from this interview so inspired!!!!!! From storyboarding entire wedding films, to blasting FPV drones around French chateaus, you are guaranteed to be inspired and blown away by how this team creates. LINKS Charli & Joel's save the date...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Working for yourself is the dream. For a lot of us, we are lucky enough for this to now be our reality. But the flexibility of working for yourself can easily lead to a blur in the distinction between work time and personal time. We end up feeling guilty when we aren’t working and feeling distracted when we try to sit down and focus. We procrastinate, we get behind on our workload, we doubt ourselves, we get burnt out, we hate weddings… Today I’m joined by creative business coach, photographer a...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Music selection is an integral part of the wedding film process. When done right, it can motivate your editing and help define your overall style as a wedding filmmaker, but for many people, the actual task of finding and selecting music can be one of the slowest and most frustrating parts of the entire process. On today’s show, Grace and I discuss our various methods for finding unique tracks for our films, why we use the music we do, our thoughts on wedding film music in general and finally we...
Apr 19, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Today’s episode is quite special because it’s the coming together of a few pieces of inspiration that have been bouncing around in my head for a while. I’ve followed Katherine’s work for a long time and have been obsessed with her use of colour, her use of light, her textures, but most importantly, the elements of fantasy and poetry that come through in her images. I’ve always wondered how I could take the inspiration I feel when I look at her work and apply it to my wedding films. And then I sa...
Apr 12, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Today marks a very exciting new chapter in the evolution of the show because it is the first episode with one of my new co-hosts this year. Grace and Andrew, aka Grandrew, aka Bottlebrush Films will be joining me in alternating shifts on most episodes this year, with Andrew’s camera mastery and Grace’s editing wizardry… it’s going to be a good year! We’ll still be interviewing guests from time to time but I’ve wanted to add the dynamic of a co-host to the show right from the beginning, just so w...
Apr 05, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Heuristic /ˌhjʊ(ə)ˈrɪstɪk/ noun A heuristic technique, or a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, short-term goal or approximation. This week I’m joined Bobby Burns from Wedding Film School and together we’ll be coming up with some useful heuristics for a wedding filmmakers toolkit. In the first half of the show we’ll iden...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 2
🖤Welcome to Make Better Wedding Films!!!! 🖤 We are back baby! With a new name a new fire in our belly 🔥 To start off season 2 in style we have the magazine mogul herself Greta Kenyon, founder and editor of Together Journal sharing her wisdom and insights on the year that's been and what she's learned from the wedding industry as a whole. Adaptability is the name of the game for today's episode and Greta has a bucket load of examples of how vendors have adapted in the wake of 2020 and there is...
Mar 17, 2021•17 min
Today we're talking about two subjects that have been talked about on this show before but it's important we have a refresher... One is the idea of branding, why would you spend money on re-branding your business? and if you do, what does it look like? I chat with Taylor Petrinovich about her recent rebrand and how she's positioning her brand to fit firmly in the high end market. We talk about the all important factor of branding which is that "you are not your client" and that your brand isn't ...
Oct 21, 2020•39 min•Ep. 18
Now is the time to invest in yourself, to take this as an opportunity to develop and thrive as a creative entrepreneur. For the established videographers, it’s time for us to develop and diversify, to strengthen our businesses and clearly define our brands. For up and coming videographers, it’s time to learn and prepare for the post COVID wedding season when all the established videographers will be booked solid due to postponements. On today’s show I’m extremely excited to get to chat with a cr...
Sep 09, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 17
There is a lot of fear being spread within the wedding industry right now. Postponements, loss of income, creatives are scrambling to figure out how best to keep their businesses afloat. On today's show, I'm speaking with Jai Long. As someone who has mastered the art of upselling, he breaks down his philosophy with me of how we can be making the most out of each wedding we do manage to get over the line this season. We talk about diversifying our offerings into things like live streaming and ins...
Aug 19, 2020•38 min•Ep. 16
Todays episode is a little different, this one is specifically for the photographers and I'm joined by Chris Turner to talk through everything a wedding photographer needs to know to start experimenting in the world of video. We're going right back to basics talking about settings, gear, editing software and how none of them have to slow you down or take your focus away from your photography. Todays episode is for any photographer who has thought about how to add a simple video option as an add ...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 8 min
‘Wholesome hustle’ is a phrase I would use to describe John & Nick’s approach to growing their podcast ‘How To Film Weddings’. No-one can deny the time, effort and vision these two have put into this project that they began back in 2018. Besides the educational benefit that podcasts like ours bring to wedding filmmakers, what’s sets How To Film Weddings apart (I believe) is the community support that John and Nick have built around their content. Their Facebook group (with roughly 6,400 memb...
Jun 12, 2020•49 min•Ep. 14
Grace & Andrew aka ‘Grandrew’ aka Bottlebrush Films have had an incredible year… After re-imagining their already successful wedding film company with a bold new look, they crafted one of the most action-packed filmmaker workshop/getaways I’ve ever seen. It’s clear that the investment in both time and energy that these two have put in to their brand, to make it something that they love, can get excited about and can truly stand behind has already been worth it and will continue to pay back f...
May 15, 2020•41 min•Ep. 13
📷 SHOW LOVE Ep012 | Potent Inspiration ft. Si Moore 📷 When Si & Soph started Bayly & Moore, they wanted to surround themselves with the best, most potent inspiration. They knew that in order to create great work, they had to consume great work. You are what you eat... On today’s show, I chat with Si about how we can step out from underneath the torrent of beautiful imagery we scroll past every day and take a different, more intentional approach to getting inspired. Throughout the show,...
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 15 min
🎥SHOW LOVE Ep011 | The Client Experience ft. Henry Martens 🎥 We all expect our work to stand on it’s own, and the growth of our business to directly reflect how “good” we are at making wedding films… But I’m afraid to say that isn’t the case. Obviously you need a good product, but how clients experience your work, how they remember you, how they talk about you to their friends who are about to get married has to do with an all encompassing feeling called “the client experience”. It’s the reaso...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 11
I'm sure we've all, at some point, dreamed about the possibility of getting paid to travel the world filming/photographing incredible weddings. So on todays episode I sit down with the legend Nisha Ravji, who is arguably the most well travelled wedding photographer in New Zealand. The laundry list of stunning locations that she's travelled to to capture weddings is enough to make most of us froth at the mouth... Amalfi coast, Italy Santorini, Greece Bahamas Banff, Canada Fiji Uluwutu, Bali Paris...
Feb 13, 2020•48 min•Ep. 10
*Hey guys, sorry this episode is super late! Upload failed and I didn't realise until someone gave me a heads up!!! Enjoy!* It's time to stop hiding in the shadows and let your personality shine through! Jonathan and I chat about how you can create amazing connections with your couples and provide an incredible experience for them on the day by loosening your grip on what it traditionally means to "act professional". Host: Ben Journée - Side Project Films Guest: Jonathan Suckling - www.JonathanS...
Jan 28, 2020•53 min
🎥🎤SHOW LOVE - EPISODE EIGHT! 🎤🎥 Finding Your Look ft. Natalie Hind - The Auburn Hour Film Co. I've been in awe of Natalie's films for so long now, they just look so damn beautiful! Not only that, they are instantly recognisable as hers. So I wanted to chat to her about how exactly she found her unique visual style, how she keeps it consistent! and how we can all be more bold when tweaking and colouring our own footage into something entirely our own. Host: Ben Journée - Side Project Films Gu...
Dec 18, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 8
🎥🎤SHOW LOVE - EPISODE SEVEN! 🎤🎥 Building Your Brand ft. Mel Branson from Till Death On todays episode we look at all things branding and owning your business' vision. As Mel says, "it's imperative to understand what you are trying to say - with your business". When couples are looking for their wedding videographers it comes down to more than simply who makes the best films for the best price. Couples are like any other customer, they buy in to the idea what you do, who are and what you stan...
Nov 15, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 7
🎥🎤SHOW LOVE - EPISODE SIX! 🎤🎥 Get it in Writing ft. Wendy Hampton from Horrocks Hampton Lawyers Contracts, contracts, contracts... it's something that a lot of us forget about for a long time. It's all fine and dandy until something goes wrong. So today we'll be talking all things legal with a real lawyer who can help us work through our current contracts, finding out what works, what doesn't and what might happen if we get things wrong! This episode isn't meant to scare anyone, but it's a f...
Oct 11, 2019•54 min•Ep. 6
🎥🎤SHOW LOVE - EPISODE FIVE! 🎤🎥 Painting a Picture ft. Lemon Tree Film House This episode is for everyone out there wanting more authentic storytelling in their films. No gimmicks, no fads, no trends, just real, honest storytelling. Shaun and TJ are masters at telling their couples stories and getting the essence of their personality to come through in their films. Oh and did I mention they made an absolutely epic 19min long wedding film for a BLIND BRIDE?! Yeah, we chat about that too. We pl...
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 5
