Well it’s been an amazing and crazy year. We still have quite a few weddings in the next 2 months, and a New years eve wedding that should be a great way to finish the year! The blog has been slow but it’s about to blow up with many new trailers and videos, so stay tuned!

We had the pleasure heading out to San Francisco a few weeks ago to shoot some material for Holly & Dave who will be getting married in Des Moines next summer. It was an amazing trip and great change of scenery. I’ll have a sneak peek of their love story and engagement shoot on the blog soon.

We received 3 more awards this year for our cinematography work. I have a blast putting these together but have to thank all of our couples for the inspiration and creativity that I get from them as well. You are the subjects and the ones who create all of the joy and emotion of the day. I’m simply there to capture those emotions and retell your story. You make that possible!

In January, I’ve been asked to be a featured speaker at the Illinois videographers association in Chicago. I was happy to be invited to speak on certain aspects of our cinematography and the industry. It should be a fun experience that I’m very much looking forward to.

Matt

We’ve now completed yet another year of weddings and it definitely went by too fast…but, time flies when you’re having fun! The entire upgrade to HD was quite a task but I’m still blown away by the quality of the video and product that we’re producing now. This year we introduced a lot of unique concepts and ideas for our videos, received more awards for our work, and as always, came up with some new and exciting products. We’re getting a jump start on 2009 and introducing the new products that we’ll initially be offering.

The first will be a Wedding Movie Poster. We will design and produce a full size movie poster with all of the information and pictures from your wedding day. The poster will be 20 in x 30 in and include a full frame. There is an example of one a few posts below.

The second will be the ability to deliver your wedding video on BluRay disc. We upgraded to filming in full high definition in 2008 and we’re now taking that to the next level to give you the absolute highest quality wedding video that you can buy! You’ll still get your DVD copies of the video, but we’ll also include a copy on BluRay.

These are two more products that we’re proud to offer and ones that you can only find with MediaInnovations.

I’m finishing up our last videos for the year and then we’ll be taking a little break to relax and spend time with our daughter. Watch for some new posts to begin in January!

-Matt

I announced awhile ago that we were expecting our first baby….and now she’s here!! Her name is Abigail and she was born on Thanksgiving day! Both her and Melanie are doing very well and we’re so happy and excited! Here are few of the first pictures.

I don’t often post on the blog, but I’m so excited that I had to say something. 

Matt and I are always looking for ways to improve and trying new ideas and concepts to keep our work fresh and exciting.  Matt, especially, keeps up with other videographers, trends, and news in the wedding video industry.  One of our favorites and recently voted one of the top 25 in the world,  StillMotion (stillmotion.ca)  is holding a cinemotography workshop early next year and Matt is getting the opportunity to attend! Come January, Matt heads to Toronto to attend the 3 day workshop.  We are both so excited that he gets the chance to work with some of the best in the world! It will be a great learning experience and I know he is so looking forward to it.  It will be a great start to a new year which will inevitably lead to some very cool things to come in the future!

-Melanie

Well, we’re now into the busiest time of the year!  It’s been an awesome year so far and we’ve had nothing but great couples to work with. I’m looking forward to this second half of the year and all the great couples coming up! 

Blogging has been a little slower lately as I’ve just been so busy, but I’m planning on having quite a few posts coming up and also some newer additions to the blog that I’ll be starting here soon.

Speaking of new additions,  we’re expecting our first baby in December!  Everything is going very well and we just found our that we’re having a little baby girl.  We’re both very excited and cannot wait to become new parents.

We recieved an award for our 2008 demo awhile back and I said I would keep everyone up to date on the other awards we entered it for.  We just received our 2nd award for that demo.  It already seems like so long ago that I put that together, and in just about 4 months, I’ll be working on the new 2009 demo.  I’m getting excited for this as everything will be HD and we’ve developed so many new styles and techniques in the last year.

Finally, I just want to thank all of our loyal readers and all of our new couples and friends.  We started our blog just 1 year ago and have had over 25,000 hits so far!  This is far above what I ever expected.  We truly appreciate the support, referrals and interest that we receive and we couldn’t do it without you!  We work very very hard every single day, but it’s very rewarding and we absolutely love what we do!  THANKS!

Matt

We are happy to announce that we are now filming all projects and weddings in High Definition.  Check back soon as new HD demos will start being posted in the next few weeks!

You can find our first HD shoot below. You will be able to watch each HD demo on our own site, but as it is compressed to fit on the site, it will not be true HD. Each demo will now come with a VIMEO link also where we’ll upload a full HD video which can then be viewed in true HD.

Matt