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It is always fun to bring a new type of clip the blog. I've been sorting through and editing our Super 8 from last year. While we don't offer weddings exclusively in Super 8, it is something we offer to complement our standard wedding film.
Super 8 certainly has a characteristic look that seems to capture the hearts of many. We would love to hear from you - do you enjoy the look and feel of Super 8? If so, care to share why? If you're not as fond of super 8, we would love that feedback as well.
If you're not too sure, check out their highlights we posted a while back as a contrast.
With that, here is Johanna + David's super film from London, England.
johanna + david // london // super 8 from stillmotion on Vimeo.
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Personally I LOVE Super 8, but I went to film school as used some Super 8 myself 
It reminds me of the films we used to make. Super 8 also reminds me of the old school movies my grandparents made.
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Y’Know, I think it’s all a matter of taste. There’s a really nice, unpretentious quality to this Super 8 film (like you didn’t go to film or video school - neither did I!) and I think Super 8 looks best when it doesn’t look slick like most wedding videos today. It works well with the couple’s fun and playful spirit and the spirit of the day.
Of course in 20 years those glidecam, fisheye lens- shot, cinematic HD films with operatic soundtracks so in vogue at the moment, may look pretty dated and silly.
Some people like vintage clothes. Others like clothes that just leaped off the runway. While still others are classic through and through. It’s all a matter of taste - and I really like what you did with the medium - it works.
Super 8 or 16mm film in our opinion is something we use as an artistic expression of the wedding day. It is true that it is a matter of taste. We use film to compliment the production in terms of communicating the story. One thing about film is that it is an archival medium that will last over 100 yrs. We get the negative stock back after processing and give it to our clients as an archival source. Using film really depends on the couple, the location and sometimes the theme of the wedding. What better way to compliment a 20’s or 30’s themed wedding than to shoot parts of it on film.
Nice work Still Motion.
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Patrick Moreau, Toronto
Vendor: Cinematographer
Website: Still Motion
About Me: For far too long, wedding videography has been seen as a medium with debatable value and little artistic merit. I think a wedding film should be fun, quirky, romantic, and really reflect two people and their coming together. It should grab you in the first few seconds, shake you throughout, and leave you with a lingering impression. I am 1/3 of the cinematography team at StillMotion, along with Michael and Konrad. With a background in psychology and no formal training in film + video, I've been completely self taught and look to use my background to add more meaning to our films and the experience of creating them. I hope our art can inspire you like our brides inspire us.
I think there is a time and a place for Super 8 footage. Quite frankly, I think it’s a wedding fad (’vintage’ seems to be quite the ‘in’ thing now), and this complements that perfectly. Personally, I don’t think I would want my memories of my day to remind me of a time 30 years prior to me being born, but that’s just me.
I’m not old enought to have seen original Super 8 films, but did they look this grainy when the technology was new and the video was just shot, or is the ‘flatness’ (for lack of a better word) a factor of time? I guess my question is, what will these videos look like in 10, 20, years? Will they look even ‘worse,’ or are these digitized Super 8s?
I think the trademark of today’s weddings (or pop culture?) are vibrant colors–like, colors only a digital camera can pick up, colors that the naked eye can’t really see–ALIVE colors. Excessive colors, like bright red poppies and deep violets. Blue skies that look-like-they-belong-to another-planet blue. That is what fill my heart with joy. That is what sucks me in and makes me want to be them, to be there, to experience IT. You know?