March 4th, 2010 by edit1media

Winter and early spring in Seattle is an interesting time in the wedding community. Many vendors have a few free weekends since it’s the “down season” and there are several wedding shows and loads of small “Open House” events at local venues. Edit 1 Media was asked to shoot many of these events so we’ll be posting some short videos from a few of them over the next several weeks and months.

The Pan Pacific Hotel is a chic, luxury hotel boasting incredible views of South Lake Union and the Space Needle with unique modern architecture, design and art pieces throughout. The concept for their “open house” was super fun….a mock wedding! If you are still looking for a stylish, modern place to have your wedding that has a real Seattle vibe, consider looking at the Pan Pacific Hotel.

The amazing vendors who participated were BreeAnn from Pink Blossom Events, Aria Style, Barbie Hull Photography, Bamboo Beats, All About Weddings, Bella Cupcake Couture, Salon Azur, Vida Spa, La Belle Elaine, NW Totem Cellars, Hollywood Hill Vineyards, Creative Ice, Kellie’s Creations, Brocklind’s, Pederson’s Rentals, Gifts by Design and Stella & Dot.  Events on the Edge provided the amazing actors!

High Definition, Networking, Pan Pacific Hotel, Seattle, wedding pros, Wedding Show

October 13th, 2009 by edit1media

This Thursday, October 15th is going to be fab-u-lous! Urban Unveiled is Seattle’s ultra-swanky wedding show featuring the best of the best vendors. It’s not just a regular wedding show; it’s more of a cocktail party and celebration. On top of the delicious food by Herban Feast, Lisa Dupar, TASTE Events and Tom Douglas Catering, there will also be a fashion show by Seattle’s own couture designer, Luly Yang. A raffle includes vendors like Salon Maison, Trophy Cupcakes (YUMMMMMY!!!), Florarama, All About Weddings, Spa Scotta, John and Joseph Photography, and tons more! And these raffles are GOOD too…a bridal brunch cruise for up to 20 on the Destiny worth $1600 courtesy of Waterways Cruises? Come on! That is awesome!

Of course Edit 1 Media is raffling off a Love Story/Engagement Music Video. It can be romantic and lovey or hip, fun and funky. This is an awesome video to showcase your love for each other and the fun you have together. Chris and Laura are available to shoot 2 locations for up to 3 hours on a mutually agreed upon date. This package is worth $2000 and expires on October 15th, 2010.

Urban Unveiled is put on by Travis and Jesse of True Colors Events and Sharlane Chase of Sharlane Chase Photography. They work so hard to make this event one of the best in Seattle. They select each vendor on an invitation-only basis and are limited to no more than four per category. Urban Unveiled partners are the most talented, innovative, and passionate wedding vendors in the industry. That means that brides can show up, eat some delish food, sip some rockin’ cocktails AND plan your wedding all in one night.

What else are you doing on a Thursday? Set your DVR for Grey’s Anatomy and the Office and come to Benaroya Hall on October 15th! Doors open at 6pm. See you there!

For a taste of what this event is like, check out the video that we did last year:

– Julie, Edit 1 Media Studio Manager

Networking, News, Seattle, Urban Unveiled, Video Clips, Wedding Show, Weddings

July 30th, 2009 by edit1media

Yesterday, Chris and Laura took a break from our crazy hot studio to enjoy some air-conditioning at lunch with Holly Strand of Beautiful Endings Photography. Holly has such a great personality and truly loves what she does. Her photos are great; super fun and creative. We’re looking forward to a long and successful relationship with Holly! Make sure you check out her website!

–Julie, Edit 1 Media Studio Manager

Blog, Networking, photography

June 10th, 2009 by edit1media

I just got back some Super 8mm movie film and was so excited to see what we got on it! The fun and mysterious thing about shooting on motion picture film is that you really have no idea how it will turn out until you get it back from development. But the rewards can be huge! It is such a completely different feel than our usual High Definition wedding videos….it’s shaky and grainy but the colors are gorgeous and there is just a nostalgic, vintage — comfortable — feel to it.

This particular wedding was in West Palm Beach, Florida and since we were heading out that way, Chris and I decided to take a short 4-day cruise to the Bahamas prior to Dalia & Mitchell’s wedding. Motion picture film is not supposed to go through xray machines and I had no problem at SeaTac having a hand check. It was actually quite entertaining to chat with the TSA guy about how he grew up shooting Super8 and he was curious what we were doing with it. But when we got to the cruise ship, it was a whole different ball game! The guy there forced us to xray the film even though there were “DO NOT XRAY” stickers all over it! Then on the way home it got xrayed again at the airport in Miami! I was really stressed that the film would be ruined. So I wound up waiting a long time while until I finished shooting some rolls at a few other weddings before sending it in for processing.

Unfortunately, some of the film was damaged from the xray exposure (and probably some user error too!) but I had enough to put together a cute littler opener for Dalia & Mitchell. I love it because it shows just enough of a glimpse in to their day that you want to see more…and yet it doesn’t ruin the surprise of the rest of their video. Yes, that’s me getting all artsy on you! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this and if you like it enough to add in a little bit of  Super8 to your wedding video, send me an email!

Destination Weddings, Jewish, Real Weddings, Super 8mm, Travel, Video Clips

April 2nd, 2009 by edit1media

Well, we are back from shooting Bessie & Alvin’s wedding in Honolulu and taking some time off with the family to relax. We have never spent much time together as a family in Hawaii (which is where I grew up) so it was a great experience to take all three boys and spend time with my parents and siblings and Chris’ Dad (they all still live there). We did tons of boogie boarding and beach bumming and now we are refreshed and ready to take on the world again!

The last few months have been a complete blur with a ton of travel for corporate shoots (7 cities in 3 weeks during February!!) with every spare second dedicated to editing weddings and running the business. I’m proud to say we are NOT experiencing the recession at all and in fact are thriving and may need to hire more staff!

Anyway, the real reason for this post is to show off Chris’ new hobby.

I wish I could say we videotaped a lot of stuff, but the truth is we didn’t. We were just having fun being together. Maybe on our next trip we’ll be better about that! Anyway, got to get back to editing….I have TONS of stuff to work on and a wedding this weekend!

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Hawaii, Personal Life, Travel

January 9th, 2009 by edit1media

Many thanks to the hundreds of brides and grooms who stopped by our two booths this past weekend at the Seattle Wedding Show! We got the official numbers and there were over 7,100 people who attended the show! That’s amazing! We were very happy with the number of brides who told us that having a great wedding video was a top priority. We are getting email and phone inquiries like crazy and have booked several incredible weddings this week. One will be in Maui at the Westin Kaanapali Village in 2010 with a reception back here in Seattle the following month and we couldn’t be more excited to work with such an amazing family!

Special thanks to my brides and one groom who helped us at the wedding show. I don’t know what I would do without such awesome clients who are willing to help! Dalia, Vangie, Diane, Mindy & Brian…you guys ROCK!! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedules to talk to other people who are still planning their wedding on how important having a good video is.

I’m tired, but happy and content. With all the scary economic talk about 2009, Chris and I really feel blessed to have such a great business and clients who are willing to trust and invest in us.

Thanks to Tania at Azzura Photography for taking these photos! I totally forgot my camera and she came to my rescue! You and Ken ROCK!

Seattle, Wedding Show

March 8th, 2008 by edit1media

Chris and I are in Fort Lauderdale this weekend to shoot Dalia & Mitchell’s wedding tomorrow in West Palm Beach. The weather has been amazing and yes, it’s Spring Break too! So the beaches are crowded with college kids but we haven’t seen too much crazy stuff yet! Dalia booked an incredible room for us overlooking the beach. So cool!

Today we filmed Dalia & Mitchell’s blessing from the Rabbi and tomorrow is the big day! We are working with Craig Larsen Jr who is a photographer also from Washington. It’s great for Dalia & Mitchell to be able to meet with us back home in Washington both before and after the wedding and have us here for the events.

Since June marks our 15th wedding anniversary, Chris and I decided to add on a few days to this trip and take a short cruise to the Bahamas. I’ve never been on a cruise nor to the Caribbean before so I was really excited! Now the day after the cruise is over I have to say I was NOT disappointed! We snorkeled, jet-skiied, and did something really cool called snuba and got pretty sunburned! A videographer who previously purchased our training DVD picked us up in Nassau and we went to his studio to check out his work and give him some tips. Now he is hoping to come to Seattle for some one-on-one training which will be fun! While on the island he gave us a personal tour and turned us on to conch fritters and Kalik beer! Yum! Thanks, Rodger!

I’ll post some photos when we get back home since I can’t figure out how to do that from my phone! In the meantime, I hope everyone joins me in wishing Dalia & Mitchell well in thier new marriage! Mazeltov!!

wedding video + destination wedding

Crazy Schedule, Destination Weddings, Jewish, Travel

December 31st, 2007 by edit1media

Chris and I need a new headshot for 2008. I REALLY didn’t want to take photos, but a trade magazine specifically asked us for a new one this year. UGH! So we turned to our very talented photographer friends Scott and Laura from Wallflower Photography.

We did the shoot on Friday in downtown Tacoma. It was bitter cold and rainy and we had no clue what to do! But Scott and Laura made us feel comfortable and we actually wound up having a fun time!

So here are the two we have narrowed it down to. These are obviously really low res for the web and I also included two individual headshots too, just for fun! But out of the two headshots of the both of us, which one is your favorite? Help us chose!!

wedding video + photography

Business, Networking, News

October 20th, 2007 by edit1media

We keep talking about adding at least one Mac to our editing arsenal. I think this one would be perfect! (tongue in cheek!)

http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/ma896ll__a-gdd

The Top 25 Retreat and Symposium (as it is being called!) got my creative juices flowing and I have a million new ideas running through my head. Here’s a photo below of those who were able to make it courtesy of David Robin. Of course our first priority is to get caught up on our editing, but we’ve already implemented some Same Day Edit only packages that you can see on our website and we are planning on adding in some other new, fun video offerings so keep your eyes open for those!

No, I can’t seem to ever take a good photo!

After the Top 25, we were back for 1-1/2 very short days. We barely had enough time to catch our breath and headed off to the Bay area for a 5-day corporate shoot. Since we had to take a ton of gear and Sherlock (our new shooter/grip who is AWESOME!!) we drove down there. The shoot went really well and the footage is gorgeous HD with great lighting, teleprompter, the whole nine yards. But it took us almost 15 hours to drive home yesterday in the pouring rain. That part wasn’t so much fun! But we had a good time getting to know Sherlock a bit better. He has done about 4 or 5 shoots with us now and will definitely become a more permanent part of Edit 1 Media as time goes on. He certainly proved his stamina and devotion to us by listening to my constant chatter for that long! LOL!

I promise I’ll post some more video VERY soon!! Thanks for reading and feel free to comment!!

wedding video + high definition

Corporate, Crazy Schedule

June 1st, 2007 by edit1media

We just got home from shooting a fun evening at Marcella’s La Boutique where Austin Scarlett, from Project Runway fame, had a trunk show with his line of decadent wedding dresses for Kenneth Pool. There was champage, cake and gorgeous brides with thier moms and friends there to meet Austin and try on some of his designs. Michael Rosenberg was there shooting away pics while we filmed so much great footage to make a promotional video for Marcella’s.

This was the first time we got to meet Marcella and her husband of almost 20 years, Oscar. They are such a fun couple and we are hoping to take them to dinner some time soon!

Austin is so sweet and very approachable and open. He seemed to really have a good time helping the brides find the perfect dress. One lady in particular put on one of his dresses and everyone just about fell out of their seats. It was as if he had designed it just for her! Amazing!

Tomorrow we are filming another fantastic wedding with Wendy at Newcastle for an adorable couple! It should be a gorgeous sunny day and we’ll be working with Jim Garner again, so we are really looking forward to it! I’ll be doing another Same Day Edit and I’ll try to post it when I get home, so stay tuned!