Maharani Weddings
It’s a great honour to be invited by a highly respected company such as Maharani Weddings to contribute to their blog. Soon after being awarded the Rising Star status in Event DV, I had been contacted by Kalah, Director of Sales who had watched our trailer clip. She was so impressed by what she had seen and even more so that our company was headed by me, a female. Maharani Weddings is also a female run company and an advocate for women in business. It’s a true honour to be asked to cotribute to their site and share our work.

Film-y Friday Finale all the way from Australia!
With the weekend around the corner, I know everyone is getting ready to pack up and call it a day. But before you head out the door for a weekend full of brunches, lunches, and mani pedis, I have the most scrumptious treat for you. All the way from Melbourne, Australia comes this magical highlight reel from Sauvignon Media Creations. This video made me fall out of my chair, twice. The first time, I was in shock about how our little company has spread its wings all the way to the land down under. And, second because for the cinematography junkie in me, it’s a DREAM.

This was one world wind of a wedding. We have over the last year, met with a few wedding planners and the Concierge to the Bride is actually the first one we have “officially” filmed a wedding with. Our very good friend & colleague Andrew Noble from Andrew Noble Photography, referred us to them.

As this wedding was taken on board by the planners 2 weeks prior to the event, Andrew & I were both booked on the Tuesday prior to their big day. In such a brief time it was obvious how much Chao & Jacki loved each other. I said this to Jacki and she asked me how I knew. We have filmed so many wedding and it doesn’t take much to notice LOVE.

Love can be a touch of a hand, a gentle smile, tender kiss or a comforting arm – I could see this instantly as Jacki rested her head on Chao’s shoulders after an obviously busy day of planning…it was after all literally days before the BIG day.

Congratulations to all the teams who performed amazingly to make the day & night a huge success for Chao & Jacki. A huge thank you to Marcus for coming on board with short notice to support us on this Same Day Edit. To Dean, you are an amazing editor & a talented film-maker…a tremendous job given the few hours of sleep prior and the huge of task of making sure all the amazing stories of the day were captured.

Event DV is an international videographer’s resources guide that awards producers around the world. Since 2006, members of our wedding film-making community have been among the Top 25. Last year I was among the 25 finalist. This year I have been voted as one of the 9 “Rising Stars” as voted by our international community.

Rochelle is a true leader in Australian filmmaking with co-founding Exposed Down Under. She is truly passionate about furthering women in the filmmaking industry and has done so much to support POSH.—Reagan Zugelter, Studio Z Films and POSH

http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=74264

As an avid support of females in the film-making industry, POSH is a major event that I forsee bringing women forward to the limelight. There are so many talented women who are either working their own studios or are pivotal & leading their team. The film-making industry like many others, have been primarily dominated by men and although there is no intention for our world to be dominated by women, recognition of our influences is changing. I am truly humbled by the comments of Reagan Zugelter, who is one of the Top 25 world film-makers.

The featured clip is that of Anujan & Narayani’s Wedding trailer. This was my first 5D experience and the imagery that our combined teamwork produced is brilliant. Working with DSLR’s are much harder than video cameras because there are so many different variables to aware of. I will still however say that a camera doesn’t make you a good film-maker. The more I have been priveledged to work alongside Dean who is an amazing teacher plus network with our world industry colleagues, the more I value the storytelling elements pivotal to a wedding film.

It truly is an honour to be voted among these elite group of professionals and I’m proud to say that of the 9 finalists, 5 are Australians. I also congratulate Daniel Cartwright, Dave Cowling, Abraham Joffe & Santo Widjaja.

Ain’t they so cute
Lol, well I think so anyway…I love how Francesco – AKA Frank, kisses Elianne at the altar with such tenderness – and she has the most divine innocence as she smiles back.

So to their story. Elianne was referred to us by her cousin Pierre & his beautiful wife Mary. We filmed Mary & Pierre last year and it was a natural following that all the best suppliers were people that Frank & Elianne enquired about. Leading to their day was hectic and these two planned such an amazing wedding. All I can say was that it was a full reception celebration…fireworks, dancers and off course our Same Day presentation.

Celebrating their wedding day at Sacred Heart in Kew Melbourne, with their reception at the Ashton Manor.
In was uber cool to have Peter Szilveszter from Living Lens join us and photographer Jodee from Field of Vision.

Finally Dean has sent me some images to load from his trip