Congratulations to Eileen & Vinnie

Congrats to my sister Eileen and Vinnie on their marriage!

She asked me to do her montage and I squeezed it into my already hectic production schedule - which included 3 projects concurrently in production. I don’t typically do weddings, except sometimes for an occasional big budgeted celebrity style wedding - as those provide the creative outlet backed up by compensation for the time required for professional creativity. However this was my sister’s wedding and family comes 1st - thankfully though, they asked Vinnie’s friend James to document & edit their wedding as I wanted to enjoy her wedding and I don’t want her waiting long in line behind my previous production committments; so her request for a montage worked out for the both of us.

Montages are cool, ‘cause they’re small projects and take less time; I feel that story, suprises, and a sense of exploration of human emotions make out for an entertaining montage. It’s discouraging to see couples put their family/friends through a boring slideshow. The issue with good montages however, is that the time needed for creativity far out weighs the production budget.

In this case, I didn’t have time to do all the 3D layering-picture-to video effects I wanted to, so to compensate I maximized the other techniques. It was an outdoor reception and I played the montage from my iPhone 3GS connected to the projector that was angled onto the outside high wall of the building.  All in all, to my suprise, it actually turned out well and from the audience’s positive feedback, I’ll add that to my list of work as another successful project.

View their wedding picture/video montage via 2 methodologies:

1) The long, rewarding method:
In the screening room flash portion of this site - Click on: Screening Room - Enter Here,  Click Here to Watch/The Work, Click Here to View the Work, then on popup window click on Video Link #8.

2) The short, internet ADD method:
(LINK) - Videos
Then click on Video Link #8.

Which ever of the 2 methods you utilize, the video is about 113 megs / 360x270, so if you don’t have a fast internet connection and the video keeps stopping ‘cause it’s playing faster than it’s loading, then you would have to pause the player and allow the file to load before viewing. The montage is posted with it downloadable for those who want a copy and have the apps to rip, however it’s not posted at the best available quality as that’d be over 1.2 gig / 720x480.