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Angela Desveaux, Editor-In-Chief at Canada’s luxury wedding magazine WedLuxe recently posted a moving and emotional story on her blog about the symbolism of a wedding ring.

Please take the time to read it here, but be warned have a tissue handy.

International award winning wedding filmmaker Andrew Hsu of Studio MSV based in California, was asked whether he thought calling himself a “filmmaker” made him pretentious.

With his response he could have been reading our minds:

“It’s not so much “pretentious” as it is a possible misnomer; considering the fact that we don’t make feature films, nor do we regularly shoot on film (although I do offer Super 8mm services.)
But is it pretentious? If I consider “filmmaker” a term of much higher esteem than what I deserve, then, yes, maybe. But I think the term “videographer” far underrates what a good event filmmaker can produce these days.
Other terms, like “cinematographer” are also not descriptive enough because half of what I do is editing and story-telling, not just shooting.

I don’t really ascribe more worth to myself than I deserve, but for sure the term “filmmaker” describes what I do better than any other term I can think of.”

He was also asked what he had for breakfast that morning, but we won’t go into that.

Sticking with the Super 8 theme, Father Christmas was kind enough to drop a Digital Harinezumi down my chimney.
This tiny digital camera (that also shoots video) produces some amazing Lo-Fi over saturated pictures very similar to the old Russian Lomo cameras.

These are a few test shots taken in St.Ives over Christmas.

Still going strong and looking good after 30 years.

Many consider the Canon 814 XL to be among the best Super 8 cameras ever made. Introduced in 1979, it was one of the final top-end cameras marketed by Canon before the market shifted to video in the early 1980s.

Now back in action, this camera has seen a lot of recent wedding action and is proving very popular with couples wanting a film that’s a little bit different.

Super 8 footage adds a certain something to a film when cut in with the usual super crisp and clear HD shots.
Many people try and fake the Super 8 look in Post Production, but usually end up with footage that just doesn’t look right.

There is only on way to get that great Super 8 look… and that’s by shooting Super 8.

As far as i’m aware we are the only company in the South West (and one of only a handful in the country) shooting Super 8 at weddings.
I suppose I should be keeping it a secret but to us it looks great and is an exciting format to work with.
Just don’t tell everyone.

Not a mention of a wedding anywhere, but still this guy is amazing, obsessive and inspirational.
Just goes to show that there is life without big corporate brands.
250 different drinks and not a Coke or Pepsi in sight.