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Cinematic vs Journalistic

Journalistic is live media coverage where things just happen and get filmed, while cinematic is designed. It's a term mostly associated with movies and TV shows that are crafted from a manuscript and tailored by a producer and director. Cinematic components include designed lighting to create a chosen mood, dynamic audio to complement the visuals, orchestrated by a director, then finessed by an editor to make it cohesive and entertaining. This doesn't exactly describe a wedding video, does it?

Many event videographers claim cinematic is their style because they do sweeping camera shots and take drone shots. But when it's an event, not staged, not rehearsed, it's still journalistic—and there’s nothing wrong that! A well shot journalistic wedding video can be amazing! With that said, if you want, you can have a real cinematic wedding video.

Real cinematic—Your wedding-in-the-making love story.

I’m a very experienced Kauai videographer who offers true cinematic videography. True cinematic doesn't occur happenstance, following the events of your programmed wedding day, which is linear, unless you're okay with a staged start, stop, start again wedding—I don't think anyone is okay with that! Because cinematic means scripted, filmed segmentally, sometimes requiring multiple takes to ensure the best performance, framing, camera tracking, timing, lighting and audio, the only realistic way to make a cinematic wedding film is DON'T! Instead, let's make A wedding-in-the-making love story, to premiere at your wedding reception. We can include wedding day snippets— best ceremony moments, pre-ceremony and reception gems.

Please check out the cinematic video below, written, produced, and directed by yours truly.

Contact me and we can discuss your own cinematic love story.

TRUE CINEMATIC & THEMATIC kauai VideoGRAPHY

Cinematic pre-wedding love story

The video (above) is a love story that I directed, shot, and edited for the bride and groom's wedding reception. They were huge Country and Western lovers and they picked out the song. The cinematic wedding video showcases the life they'd shared together for a decade. I shot this over 2 long days, including half a day at a church hall that we (my clients and I) turned into a green screen studio. As I was the entire crew, the bride and groom helped me set up lights, lug around green screen panels and other grip gear. Without their help there's no way this could have been made.

Thematic Kauai wedding videography

This type of video (above) is a Kauai wedding videographers dream, fun to make, creative, although still journalistic because only moments were staged. There's a second version of this which is more classical.

Kauai wedding videographer David Marsh films under stormy skies a wedding at the St Regis Kauai, now called 1-Hotel

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