How to choose the PERFECT music for your wedding films!

Today I am very excited to share with you a tutorial that has taken me many years of experience filming weddings to learn. In this video, I am going to share with you how I choose the perfect music for my wedding films. Songs that fit the bride and groom, their wedding day, and their style perfectly. No matter whether you are a beginner wedding filmmaker that is getting ready to film their first wedding, or you have been shooting weddings for years, I believe that there will be something in this video that will help you. I’ll be covering:

  • The EXACT questions that I use to guide the conversation with the bride and groom and learn their favorite songs, musical genres, bands, and more importantly: their musical dislikes.
  • What story I tell to educate brides and grooms about music copyright.
  • Steps to avoid major music mistakes that could (gasp!) ruin your films and even your business.
  • How to reassure the couple that they can trust your creativity (with music, with everything).
  • Plus gobs of little secrets and tips about every aspect of my music selection process!

By the end of watching this video, you will be prepared to select music for your wedding films that will satisfy you creatively, and give your couples a video that they will love and cherish forever. And please be on the lookout for my next tutorial, all about the music licensing sites that I use for my wedding films.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave one below or get in touch.

Check out the wedding films I used in this video:
High School Sweethearts in the Hill Country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBjf09gJuzM
Ever since our first date, I knew you were the one: https://youtu.be/TG3j9cHTVMc
You are the Joni Mitchell to my James Taylor: https://youtu.be/jcCFn-YduMk
5 years together, going on 50: https://youtu.be/VnJ-lvCcjqo
1 day ago was the last time we won’t be married: https://youtu.be/EfCrae2_J_I
Not just in love, in joy with each other: https://youtu.be/p1C-MaDWbXk
A beautiful thing to behold: https://youtu.be/dZK_bQHUbGo
You are my miracle: https://youtu.be/bLq1Iwm10RU

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How To Make A Cinematic Travel Film | Behind The Scenes Iceland Travel Vlog (Part 2)

Today I would like to invite you back to Iceland again for more adventures with me and Rachel, as we film gorgeous landscapes with the DJI Mavic and Sony A7Sii. If you are planning on traveling to Iceland soon (or anywhere else for that matter), and are needing inspiration for how to create a travel film, I hope this vlog helps you.

Also, I would like to give a massive thank you to my wife Rachel. When I posted the first part of this BTS, the most common comment I received was, “You’re really lucky to have a wife that lets you drive around and film pretty stuff!” And it’s true! I’m incredibly happy that her idea of a good time is riding around in a car with me as we look at and film pretty things.

😃As always, if you have any questions or comments about this travel video, please feel free to leave one below, or get in touch.

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Wedding Film Editing Tips! | Behind The Scenes of Zac and Lindsey’s Wedding Trailer

If you’ve been following my channel for a bit, you’ve probably noticed how many wedding films and trailers I upload. That’s due to wedding filmmaking being my full-time job! As I’ve been creating tutorials and reviews to help you, I’ve been considering how I can turn some of these wedding films into educational material to help you as a filmmaker, and I had an idea: what if I created behind-the-scenes videos for some of my favorite wedding films?

Now this doesn’t mean hopping in a Delorean and going back in time to bring along a third shooter to act as BTS cameraman for my prior films, but what it does mean is I am wanting to revisit some of my favorite films and discuss certain aspects of them. In this case, my good friends Zac and Lindsey’s wedding trailer.

In this video, I’ll go through and explain my thought process for how I edited it this way, and offer a key takeaway that took me many years to learn. If this helps you, could you please leave me a comment and let me know if you would like to see more videos like this in the future? Thanks!

Watch Zac and Lindsey’s wedding film: https://youtu.be/dZK_bQHUbGo
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Wedding films shown in this video:
– “You are the Joni Mitchell to my James Taylor”: https://youtu.be/jcCFn-YduMk
– “5 years together, going on 50”: https://youtu.be/VnJ-lvCcjqo
– 1 day ago was the last time we won’t be married: https://youtu.be/EfCrae2_J_I
– After 9 years, I still fall more in love with you every day: https://youtu.be/AXDgMK0KZm0
– Not just in love, in joy with each other: https://youtu.be/p1C-MaDWbXk

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to comment below or send me an email.

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My Favorite Picture Profile for the DJI Mavic Pro

As promised in my Mavic Pro Review video, I’m excited to share with you my favorite picture profile for the Mavic Pro. This is the exact picture profile that I use for filming weddings, travel videos, and any other professional shoots. With a bit of color grading, I find that it can result in some beautiful footage shot with this tiny drone.

In the future, I plan on bringing you a video dedicated to exactly how I use Adobe Premiere Pro to color grade the footage shot with this exact picture profile, and how I use LUTs with it as well.

For now though, here are my exact picture profile settings:

My favorite Mavic Pro picture profile: D-Log 0, -1,-1 (unless I’m filming in a high-dynamic-range scenario, then I want my sharpness set to +1.

  • Other settings that I use in the DJI Go App:
  •  Record in Manual
  •  Record in the MP4 Video Format
  •  Record in 4K at 30fps, conformed in post to 24fps.
  •  Record at 1/60th shutter speed by using Polar Pro’s Cinema Series Vivid Collection of ND Filters with Polarizers.
  •  Turn the Over Exposure Warning (aka Zebras) ON, and make sure no parts of my video are overexposed.
  •  Monitor the EV Meter and try to ALWAYS keep my exposure at 0.0 or slightly above at .3 or .7, never under 0.0 (note that this is bugged in my current version of the firmware and the EV does not work, so I monitor my zebras instead and film with my footage just below where the zebras start to appear, almost over-exposed.)
  •  Manually set my White Balance using the “Custom” option and dialing in the exact Kelvin value. In most daylight/partly cloudy situations this is at 7,000K.
  •  Keep my ISO at 100 if possible.

If you are wondering why I use these settings, please watch the video, because two-thirds of it is dedicated to explaining why I use them.

My favorite drone video gear: https://kit.co/whoismatt/drone-gear-for-wedding-filmmakers

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As always, if you have any questions or comments about this review, please feel free to leave one below, or get in touch.

I am also now offering one-on-one personal filmmaker consulting! Wanna talk about cameras, lighting, or booking clients? Let’s do it!