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Melinda + Jason // Save the Date

Mark Mroz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:17:49 +0000

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Melinda came to me to have me do a film of their wedding. She has a website for the wedding and I thought it would be fun to make a “Save the Date” video for her & Jason.

This is a short story of how they met. I asked Melinda what song she would like for the video. “January Wedding” seems to fits perfectly with the theme, but it’s also such a great song.

The day shots were done in the Ghent area of Norfolk, VA. I did the interview shots outside of the studio at night. I love the sound of the crickets and the holly tree as a backdrop.

The footage was shot on my HV40 with Jag35Pro and 50mm ƒ1.8 lens. I used a single overhead light to get that nice deep contrast on their faces. My Sennheiser MKH416 saved the night… there was so much noise going on around us – a football game at the stadium nearby with an announcer over the loudspeaker, jet planes, trucks, frogs – I thought most of the audio would be ruined. I was going to filter out the crickets, but it gives the film such a nice feel.

I wish Melinda & Jason the best in their relationship and look forward to shooting their wedding film.

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Song: “January Wedding” by Avett Brothers

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Art Louis // Video Portrait (pre-production)

Mark Mroz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:02:07 +0000

Currently I’m shooting a video portrait for Louis Fronkier who is a local photographer. I’ve got some great studio shots as well as some great B-roll from one of his photo session, which was down at Yorktown Beach.

Here’s a couple of stills from the video footage. You can click on them to see a higher resolution image. It’s been a bit of a mental adjustment for me to get into an HD workflow – it’s less forgiving when you make mistakes – but it’s so well worth it. Final video coming soon!

You can check out Louis’ site here: Art Louis Photography

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You Have a Choice

Mark Mroz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:47:29 +0000

This is a video that I made for a contest. It’s a short documentary style video about the choice that women/families have in their birthing. There were some guidelines that had to be followed, namely keeping it to 7 minutes. I think it came out pretty decent.

I setup the studio with a black backdrop and used a Panasonic DVX-100a with a MXL 990 mic. I was in such a rush I forgot to do my 24P pulldown on capture, but I was able to compensate with some deinterlacing in post.

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