- You rolling? - Yeah.
- Okay. Hey, welcome to the rehearsal dinner
of Holly and Luke.
Oh, everything's falling.
This is a terrible idea.
Well, there are tree details here.
Very important, you're in charge of breadsticks.
I want to get a shot of these,
watch out for the dog poop.
(upbeat music and singing)
- A few things have come to mind-
- Yes, mummy look!
- Breadstick time?
And yeah, there we go.
(upbeat trumpets)
I don't know how well the audio is gonna sound in this
cause of the windiness here.
The windy factor.
We're out here a little early
because the weather is semi-decent right now.
Literally leading up to this wedding,
two weeks before,
nothing but blue skies,
literally the Sunday after the wedding,
all sunny blue skies,
Friday and Saturday of the wedding,
horrible, cloudy, rainy weather.
70% chance of rain today,
but it's not raining right now.
So this is our time to shine,
get some establishing shots,
pretty shots of the wild deer over here.
Shots of the rustic Texas venue.
And yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Another day, another wedding.
Little, Sony A7S3 today.
Oh yes.
Any day I get to shoot with A7S3 is a good one.
We've got a few another little goodies here
that we're gonna be using at the wedding.
First up we have these CinePacks Split Diopters.
Hold them in front of the lens,
they give you some real nice distortion effects.
Plus it kind of doubles as like a brass knuckle
attachment thing.
If you need to defend yourself at a wedding,
drunken guest is coming up to you giving you some problems
a little, (grunting)
and they kind of, they'll get back.
Or they'll get cut.
We've got two new lenses to try out.
First of all, find it here.
Nope. That's not it.
No, that's not it,
it's in here somewhere.
There it is.
First of all,
this the new Sigma 85mm DGDN lens.
So a lot smaller f/1.4.
Should be a lot of fun to try out.
Also we got 35mm f/1.2.
Oh, look how big this thing is,
this is a monster of a lens.
So excited to try this out.
Start doing a little stabilized shooting,
little establishing, go from there.
So for this sort of stuff,
start off really basic.
Nice wide, here's the chapel.
Thankfully there's no cars parked out front.
Get a little bit of the sign in the foreground,
little parallax movement of the rocks here moving.
Very nice.
Get up close, get a shot of the sign.
Tap to focus so it isn't freaking out.
Because that first shot was so wide,
I want closer and I'm gonna go this way over here.
I'm gonna do sort of a reveal.
Little chapel reveal, what's that?
Oh, it's a chapel.
Very nice movement.
And I'll try not to step in any cow poop out here.
This is Texas after all.
Well parallax.
(gentle music)
Here we go.
And Rachel ruined the shot.
Dang it,
it was going so well until that moment.
Okay now we're gonna go inside the chapel.
Just like I did outside,
I'm gonna do a little push inside here too.
A little reveal here.
Wedding video here is done.
Let's go look where the reception
and the rehearsal dinner tonight is gonna be taking place.
If you want to know how Texas this wedding venue is,
all you have to do is look for the signs like this one,
"Please remain three feet from Longhorns."
That's how you know.
Very Texas, heehaw.
I would assume this is the rehearsal dinner site
judging from the lights, the tables, et cetera.
Lots of nice warm incandescent lighting,
again, that we got to work around,
but we'll make it work.
So with this being the wedding venue,
as well as the rehearsal dinner site,
nice thing is that we have a little bit of a preview
for how things are gonna look.
So I would assume that toasts are gonna be happening up here
facing out to the crowds of people.
A little bit of tree details here.
(upbeat music)
I want to get a shot of the,
watch out for the dog poop.
I want to get a shot
of the rehearsal dinner building/reception venue.
And I feel like this angle here,
because we have the lights,
we have the trees,
I think this looks really good.
I'm always trying to film my buildings from a corner
because that provides a little more 3D effect to things.
Do a little walk along this way, here.
One more over here,
and then you know what time it is?
Drone time.
Cause we have time and it ain't raining,
which means it's drone time.
What else would it be?
Little Mavic 2 Pro.
Got the ND4 filter on, cause it's a little cloudy,
so I think that'll hopefully work.
I always kinda got to guess.
Because this venue here is just so flat,
I'm gonna go super low key with this.
Just simple reveal of the chapel I think from low.
I don't want to fly over there too far
'cause I don't want to mess with the Longhorn cattle.
One of the best ways to get in trouble
at any wedding video that has livestock
is to fly your drone near the livestock
and then you get yelled at.
I'm not saying that from personal experience.
Please check it on the map.
I wonder who they got to do the voice for the DJI drones.
Please check it on the map.
(drone buzzing and beeping)
Woo, big fan of tripod mode,
especially for stuff like this where I don't need
super fast movement.
We're gonna go real slow, real chill.
Oh yeah there's a really nice little shot here.
A little tree reveal of the venue,
watching that tree that I'm flying near.
Not bad Matt.
Still got a baby.
Drone flight complete.
Went well, did not crash,
did not get struck by lightning,
did not anger any of the venue's Longhorn cattle.
It's all you really got to look out for is the cows.
Time to set up some lights for the reception.
Little cheetah stands, collapsible.
Love them.
I need to grab the new light.
Oh yes the new light.
Oh, everything's falling.
This is a terrible idea.
Why did I open up this side?
Oh, brand new light I'm very, very excited about.
This right here is the Aputure 60x.
Okay.
Strapped up,
loaded.
Ready to go, march onwards.
For a fill light here we have the torch LED.
Little, compact, bright.
Hey hey.
Are you the Dad/DJ/all of the above?
I would love to plug in.
Yeah, I saw you had two wireless receivers here.
I've got all the audio stuff here
so we can plug in here in just a second and see.
Friendly, chill, very good.
The Aperture 60X.
Moment.
(humming)
So at this point here I am setting up lights and audio.
Rachel is observing the wedding rehearsal.
We love being able to observe the wedding rehearsal
because there's always moments that you can miss
or not be aware of.
And so seeing the rehearsal,
you can see everything before it actually happens
on the wedding day, which is very nice.
So looking how this venue is set up here,
as far as lighting goes,
we know that people are gonna be sitting over here.
So I know I need to consider where I want to put my light,
and if I want the light to be on their face,
I think I'm gonna want the key light side to be over here.
'Cause I don't wanna put my light over there
cause it's right by the entrance
and people could it trip on it or something like that.
Out of the way.
It's still enough.
Put it up to about there.
Angle it down a bit.
Yeah, there we go.
And this is all subject to tweaking.
As far as for the bride and groom,
love this little light.
Because this light's gonna be closer
and more visible to like the crowd
then that light sits off to the side,
I like having a smaller light profile.
So like this, real tiny, still plenty bright.
I can put this off to the side,
light the couple's faces really subtly
and that should look really good.
So we're gonna have this guy kind of waiting over here.
Once we figure out the seating for them.
Lighting, I feel really good about now.
Now we need to focus on audio.
So thankfully the father of the groom/DJ/entertainment
has already shown me the lay of the soundboard here.
And we really have two options
as far as how we want to plug in to this audio.
So come over here.
We have phones,
we have monitor out,
we have stereo out, which I think he's gonna be on.
So I may try phones.
I'm doing phones and maybe monitor out,
one or the other.
So we're gonna plug into here, do some testing,
see how it sounds.
And then I need to figure out which one of these microphones
they're gonna be using for toast
because they have two of them.
And whichever mic they're gonna be using for toast,
I'm gonna put my mic sleeve around it
to make sure that I'm recording good audio.
So we'll have two sources of audio.
And then because I'm paranoid,
we also have these audio receivers here
and on the back of these audio receivers are XLR outputs.
And so I'm probably gonna plug
into one of these XLR outputs as well
and have that recording also into the recorder
so I really have multiple backups,
on backups and backups of audio.
It should work well.
Here we have the old trustee,
never failing Zoom H4n with power cord.
Always nice to have just to make sure things keep running.
I'm gonna do one monitor out
and then so left channel be monitor out,
right channel's is gonna be XLR
out of one of these two boxes.
We'll see which one.
Do you have a mic stand,
did you bring one or? - I did bring one actually.
- Okay.
- Are you thinking
people are gonna be more comfortable with that?
- Usually it's for me for the lighting,
so they're not moving and then they're just well lit
and they're not roaming.
Yes, yes.
Let's test this audio here.
Yeah, I'm getting that, that's great.
Yeah these are both picking up nicely.
I'm just paranoid check, check, check.
Okay.
Love it, love it, love it.
This audio is rolling,
we're running two channels in,
so we're getting both just in case.
Cause clearly like there's a volume discrepancy
so if he messes with the volume,
I still have a good audio which is fantastic.
Now I need to grab my mic sleeve.
So we'll have that as a backup.
Let's go look at lighting over here.
(humming)
Because nobody's actually gonna be sitting
at any of these side tables here,
my plan is here to have my light pointing this direction.
We're gonna have the person giving the toasts over here
because this is the table.
So they're gonna be nice and close and intimate.
I can get a sidelight coming in on this side
or do I want to put the light over there?
'Cause then Rachel is gonna film here.
Light's gonna go over here.
I think I want this side of the face to be in shadow,
this side of the face to be lit almost cinematic that way.
Film into the shadow.
(background chattering)
If the couple is sitting right here,
they're looking at the toaster,
light over here shining this way.
Really nice lighting for both of them
without being in the way of the other guests,
which is really important.
And so if they're there,
we'll have this light on
kind of gently go in that direction.
Nice side lighting.
And so I can literally be filming here.
Them reacting,
Rachel can be filming the person toasting.
Should look really, really good.
Microphone sleeve,
backup audio recorder.
I have this little mic sleeve and recorder that I use
just to put around the mic just as a backup.
- Oh yeah great idea.
- Because I've had audio fail before.
Yeah it's a little.
It's so great, it's so great.
- I use them for just a general.
- I love it, it's wonderful to have.
This is Holly and Luke rehearsal dinner
backup mic sleeve audio.
So the recorder slides down under there.
Slide down when you turn on the mic,
slide it back up.
We're looking good.
I'm feeling confident about this,
feeling good about this.
So if we have, whoa that's a lot of light.
Okay.
We're gonna have to tone that down a bit.
This light's too powerful captain.
If you're standing right over there, how does this look?
Then how's that look?
Good?
Okay, great.
We're gonna get a wide shot of the neon sign
that's lit up with the couple's names
just so Rachel may do a little bit of overlay magic with it.
Very important, you're in charge of breadsticks.
This is very important.
Optimal.
I don't want to hit this thing,
but I want to be pretty wide.
Love that tilty screen.
(gentle background music)
Feeling really good.
Time to eat, bread stick time, Olive Garden.
Fancy Italian.
- A few things have come to mind,
things that I hope will kind of paint a picture
of who she is now,
but you know, how did she get this way right?
How did she become this person that she is.
- Once they actually met,
We sort of realized pretty soon on
that these two had something special going on.
- So Luke said, yes mummy look!
And so I just went you're really strong.
So just he had shimmied up this thing,
we don't even know how he got up there.
Wake board jumping and water slides,
I think these two guys
know something about some of this too.
- Well the wedding rehearsal dinner complete,
I think that went very well.
Very happy with the lighting,
very happy with the audio.
I think everything turned out really, really good.
And the best thing is that
the wedding is happening here tomorrow.
So we already know what the reception is gonna look like.
I already have thoughts for where I want to put my lights.
I already know how to plug into this sound board
and Rachel attended the wedding ceremony rehearsal.
So I feel very prepared for the wedding tomorrow.
I'm not expecting a lot of surprises, which is really good.
I prefer to be as planned as possible
and by attending the rehearsal, great way to do that.
So thanks for tagging along tonight.
See you tomorrow morning.
Two quick things for you before I go first,
I want you to know that this is the second part
of a three part video series
all about Holly and Luke's wedding.
So if you want to see the first part,
which covered us adventuring with them
in the mountains of Colorado,
getting some beautiful footage,
I will leave that below.
And whenever the third and final part is out,
which covers the wedding day,
I will link to that down below as well.
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(gentle music)