Super 8
Wedding Videography
Canterbury Super 8 Film Wedding Videography
Super 8 video is the most authentic video look possible! Shot on vintage 8mm film rolls, you get all the raw emotion and soulful moments captured from your day. If you love the vintage look then this is 100 percent for you! It's the perfect add-on to film photography, giving you the complete package to treasure your wedding day forever.
Hi i'm Matt, lead video film maker
As a New Zealand wedding videographer/filmmaker, I know how to capture the most important sights, sounds, and scenes of your wedding day without pulling you away from them and remaining as invisible as possible
Your unique story is so precious. I would love to connect with you and learn your story, so I can focus on what matters most to you. Because when it comes to your film and your experience, that's what matters most to me. I carefully handcraft every wedding video capturing every ounce of joy & emotion.
Im extremely passionate about nature, mountains, adventures and travelling to capture love stories! I'm currently a Christchurch-based wedding adventure videographer, & Photographer but happy to travel nationwide!
More About Super 8 Film
1. Differences between modern DSLR video
- The main difference is the cost of developing Super 8 films. It's expensive to buy and develop the film, costing around $200 per 3-minutes of captured film - one cartridge equals roughly 3 minutes of film. On a wedding day. Noramlly around 3-5 cartridges are used across a wedding day in order to capture and tell your special story (costing appox. $600 -$1000 just for the raw footage, which has to be calculate into production costs and fees). Once the film is developed and scanned, it's then turned into a stunning digital highlights film of around 4-6 minutes long.
2. Backups
Modern cameras have dual writing of videos so they are always backed up and safe. Super 8 doesn't have a backup so in the very unlikely event of a film roll failure, 1 small part of the day could be lost. We do everything possible to make sure the gear is in perfect functional condition and swap between film rolls during the day to save different parts to different rolls. We also make sure we have a backup super 8 camera at the ready.
3. Lighting
Super 8 works fantastic in good lighting, but struggles in low light situations (especially reception) Formalities indoors after sunset need to be very well-lit, if not, it's impossible for the camera to capture good usable footage. We have big LED lights that help with special moments like the first dance and main reception formalities. Because we only shoot short clips, once we have the footage we need, we can turn the lights off so the party can properly start!
Super 8 film & 35mm Film Combo
Being a husband and wife team we both specialise in our unique areas of film photography and videography. If you want both film photos and film video, we are the perfect team to capture your special day in the most soulful and raw way possible!
If you are just after one or the other, we can also add on one or the other to all of our modern wedding day packages to get the best off both worlds! =D
Ready to book? Here are the next steps
1. GET IN TOUCH
Click on the 'book now' button below and fill out the contact form, or send us a message via Facebook messenger. We will send through our pricing guide with all the details you need to decide on what would suits you the best.
2. CONTRACT & PAYMENT
Once you have confirmed your package/extras, we will send through a contract to sign and we require a 30 percent non-refundable deposit to secure your booking, with the rest due 2 weeks before your wedding day.
3. PLANNING & SESSION
We want to make sure you have all the most important moments to you in the video! We do our best to capture absolutely everything but in the planning session we can go over your day and make sure any unique moments make it into the video
4. YOUR GALLERY
Roughly 4-8 weeks after your wedding day, you will receive a link to your online gallery with all of your stunningly edited photos to share with all of your friends and family.