The Minor Film Co.

EXPERIENCE

GETTING STARTED

Step 1

Contact us and schedule a brief intro call to check availability and make sure our approach lines up with your vision.

Step 2

pick your package: either a creative Storyteller film or Livestream Broadcast, then secure your wedding date with a signed contract and retainer payment.

Step 3

Pre-production begins by learning about your love story and wedding plans. This helps to tailor your experience before the camera even starts recording.

What to Expect From Every Storyteller Package
Highlight Films + Event Edits

Story Session

We will set aside time prior to your wedding day to get to know you and collect additional content to ensure that your final wedding film is uniquely yours. Not only does a Story Session allow you to get more comfortable on camera, but it allows us make a wedding film that’s unique and meaningful by adding personal story elements, ranging from informal interviews to footage of your favorite shared activities!

Complete Coverage

All of our Storyteller packages include a full day of coverage, starting with single-day events. This helps us to tell your story in a more complete way.

Pro Audio

Using industry leading audio equipment allows us to capture the sounds that will bring back the most important memories for years to come.

Creative Curating to Match You

Our Highlight films are the main offering for our Storyteller package. This video is the creative summary of your day and the favorite of all our Storyteller options. We include licensed music to create the emotional soundscape and pull from a deep bag of cinematic tricks to tell your story in the way it needs to be told.

Easy online delivery

We deliver using a custom online gallery. This allows you to view your films in the highest quality possible on the most number of devices. They can be shared with friends and family and downloaded for safekeeping, while offering an online backup for years.

Fan Favorite: Engagement Session 

We believe this takes your story to the next level and really makes it your own. Prior to the wedding day this session gives us the chance to get to know each other and connect. This tends to get our couples more comfortable with working together on the wedding day, but also gives us some honest and beautiful footage to use in the final wedding film or in a standalone Love Story video.

Get started with an Engagement Session!

The Storyteller Package Options


01

Highlight Film

02

Engagement Film

03

Event Edit

04

Rehearsal Dinner Coverage

05

Archive Edit

  • A story session is a special time prior to your wedding day to capture supplemental content for the creation of your custom wedding film. This session helps us learn key elements of your story, capture additional footage, audio, and conduct an interview to craft a more personalized film.

  • An artistic and emotional video capturing your love story and wedding. Combining high quality audio, cinematic music, and beautiful cinematography.

  • Video of events in a linear manner, watch events “as they happened”. Available for the ceremony, toasts, dances, and other events

  • A compilation of coverage from the day. A long “Event Edit” for anyone with FOMO. An archive of your historic day to cherish forever.

Engagement Films

This session allows us to get comfortable with one another before your wedding day, but more importantly it provides some beautiful and intimate footage of you two to include in your wedding film or a stand-alone love story film.

Wedding Films

Our creative style of filmmaking preserves your wedding day in an artistic, movie-like short film that focuses on your love story first and foremost. We produce an all-inclusive blend of modern, unique and personal, because your wedding day should be something you can look back on and celebrate as art, the very first piece in your collection as a new family.

Wedding Livestreaming

Seamless live-streaming for your wedding, because nobody should miss a moment of your big day. Let us live stream your wedding day with state of the art equipment, cutting-edge internet connection technology and multiple cameras so your remote guests feel right there with you and never miss a beat

 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • First and foremost we are focused on you two and capturing important emotional moments in your day. We want to tell your story in a cinematic way using natural audio of key moments throughout the day, a captivating soundtrack, and beautiful cinematography. We take a very documentary approach to filmmaking. While we do use some subtle posing at times, we prioritize real and natural moments.

  • We know that your wedding day can be stressful, we don't want to add to any stress, we want your big day to be fun and exciting. We film in a photo-journalistic style, meaning we aren't controlling and we don't like to force things on the day. We aren't big on stiff, unnatural posing, but we may offer some direction during certain times during the Creative Session. We also work very well alongside photographers, which means that you'll look your best in your photos and video.

  • Our Storyteller packages includes at least 6-8 hours of coverage, which covers most typical wedding days. They also include a 1-hour Story Session prior to the wedding day.

    Our Livestream Broadcast includes 1 hour of event coverage standard, with the option to add more time if needed.

  • Our collections start with one videographer for your day, with the option of including a second videographer. If you’re going all out you can even add a third filmmaker if your wedding calls for it.

  • Absolutely not! First and foremost, I have immense respect for the marriage arrangement, and I wouldn't dare show up to your wedding looking like a slob. My rule of thumb is: If I get caught in the background of a photo, I want to blend in with the guests. - And we're discreet with our equipment as well.

  • We pride ourselves on how well we work alongside photographers. Before your wedding day even starts we begin game-planning how best to shoot different events at your wedding. Both photography and filmmaking are all about finding great lighting, locations, moments, and emotions. We and your photographers are always on the lookout for all of those to make sure that your photos are stunning and your film is beautiful.

  • Very well! If you're using a planner or coordinator we stay in constant communication with them to ensure we're on top of the details and specifics of your day.

    We work with your DJ, band, or venue audio engineer to ensure that we are able to capture clear, professional audio of your event.

  • Yes!

    Storyteller 01 includes an edited video of the ceremony from a single camera angle.

    Storyteller 02 and Storyteller 03 include an edited video of the ceremony from multiple camera angles.

    Our Livestream service includes a recording of the event as it was broadcast.

  • Our Storyteller Films ranges from 4-6 minutes. This can be upgraded to a longer edit.

  • An Edited video of toasts are included with Storyteller 02 and Storyteller 03

  • No. We offer a 3-payment option:

    1st payment: 30% total balance - due on signing contract

    2 payment: 20% service fee - 3 months after signed contract

    3rd payment: 50% remaining balance - due 30 days before the event

  • To book us to film your wedding, we require a retainer of 1/3rd the package price. This retainer reserves your wedding date and allows us to begin the pre-production process for your wedding.

    About Our Booking Retainer

    Our service starts well before the wedding day

    Because Weddings are once-in-a-lifetime live events that don't get a "take two" if something goes wrong, we begin with a pre-production process.

    We research the venues to determine filming logistics. This includes reviewing ceremony site photos, photos, and videos from previous weddings, visiting the venue location to find the best camera angles and lighting for your wedding ceremony, and internet connectivity for live streaming. We use this info to determine which equipment is right for your wedding.

    Every wedding is different and we prepare accordingly. It's not uncommon for commercial video shoots to "location scout" areas before production starts to prevent costly re-shoots. You don't have the luxury of "re-shoots" for your wedding, that's why we take the responsibility of filming your wedding seriously.

    We communicate with your vendors prior to the wedding. We research your photographer's photos and their way of working to collaborate on a game plan for filming your wedding without hiccups. We nail down the technical aspects of lighting and audio with your venue contact and your DJ/band to make sure you and your VIPs giving toasts look and sound like a million bucks.

    We reserve our team of editors for your wedding. Because many weddings often occur around the same general time or season, this allows us to begin editing quickly and efficiently.

Katey and Josh

“I cannot recommend Minor Film Co. enough! Sean did an amazing job capturing the video the day of and editing the highlight video.

On the day-of, it was all very unobtrusive—we often forgot we were being recorded. Sean also did a good job of collaborating with the photographer, making sure he wasn't interfering with her shots but also letting her know what he needed. In all, it was a great experience—I wouldn't change anything about it! ”