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journey into filmmaking began
as an amateur in my hometown of Modesto, California in 1985. At the
ripe old age of 14 I saw "The making of Raiders of the Lost Ark"
on television which made this business actually look like FUN. My
Dad's super8 film camera was equipped for single-frame exposures and
so my first films were in stop-motion animation, usually about 20
seconds long. I've always been fascinated with silent films because
film and music are the two universal languages. My dream and prayer
was to one day go to Hollywood and live among other like-minded film
lovers....making meaningful movies and also making a difference in
the world. In Modesto, I partnered with some friends in high school
to make half a dozen short super8 sound films (not video - film) with
the help of church friends and of course, family.
We got our first video camera in about 1988 and I took video classes in Junior College. I also managed to volunteer at the local cable station, appear in TV & print advertising and I even worked in the feature film Back to the Future 3. For a girl from nowheresville, having a big movie crew come to within 30 miles of my town was better than a dream! I worked for 19 days on location watching and learning how the "big boys" make movies. I wore a 100 year old victorian dress complete with corset, bonet and high laced shoes (growing up watching "Little House" really paid off!). If you're a bride, I can give you great pointers on how to move gracefully in such a gown - practice, practice! I went to Loyola Marymount University film school followed by a special semester in film studies. I also interned at Warner Brothers. After graduation, I moved to Toluca Lake, took a class at the American Film Institute, did office work at Disney and Script Supervising work on low budget films. I taped my first wedding video in 1990 for my cousin Bonnie in Salem, Oregon. It was my gift to her. That was before digital video, in the days a analog linear editing. Back then, wedding videography was not the art-form it is today because of all the limitations of technology. Digital video cameras didn't really exist in variety until the millennium which is coincidentally when I got laid off from Disney (I was part of the Tokyo DisneySea themepark design team). I was then able to start my new business when digital video was the newest revolution. In about 2004 there was a slow-down in Hollywood that brought a flood of talent into the event videography market. Suddenly there were 200 new video businesses where 30 had been. Live events are vastly different from features or television production because these are not actors and a church is not a set. It takes some special finess to shoot a wedding without making people feel uncomfortable about being on camera. In 2008, with all the talent available in Los Angeles, there's no such thing as just a wedding video anymore. Gone are the days of cheesy video when you hired a guy just because he had a big camera. High Definition technology is available to everybody now. My specialties are editing and camera operation - as they always have been - and although I miss the movie set, I really love making beautiful wedding videos. Each movie is a personal fairytale woven in magic. Click
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