Wedding Video Sydney

Exposed Down Under

I’m proud to have been involved in putting together and running ‘Exposed Down Under‘ – which was an educational event for wedding filmmakers. ‘Exposed’ ran last week between July 12 and 16.

We were lucky enough to secure the talents of 4 internationally-acclaimed wedding filmmakers who were all fantastic presenters: Jason Magbanua, Konrad Czystowski, Michael Y Wong and Alvin Paver (Mayad Studios). The workshop also featured some of our local talent including Abraham Joffe, Edgard Neves, Susanto Widjaja, Daniel Cartwright and yours truly (Dave Cowling – DnM Wedding Films).

Air Canada did their best to ruin our plans to have Mike and Konrad there – but they made it just in time, with Mike essentially walking off the plane and straight into the auditorium for his first presentation. He never skipped a beat and brought the house down with his presentation on ‘The Language of Film’.

Jason presented on Marketing, SDE’s and Shooting & Editing Techniques for DSLRs. Alvin presented on Directing techniques and conceptualisation. Konrad talked to us about ‘How to Unvendorise yourself’. Abraham & Edgard put a local spin on their ‘Business Evolution’ and Santo and Dan teamed up to talk about Concept Videos and Trash-the-dress videos.

Attendees and presenters came from all over Australia as well as a few from Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines & Canada. We were so impressed by the number of people willing to invest in their own education and in raising the bar within our industry.

On the opening night of the event, I spoke about ‘Collaboration, not Competition’ – and how that mantra has seen a group of us in Sydney being able to collectively raise the quality of our work, along with the profile of wedding filmmaking in Australia. By the end of the event, it was great to hear the ‘mantra’ coming back to us from the attendees who approached the event very openly. Many friendships have been forged between people from all over the country (and internationally). I’m really looking forward to seeing the results of interstate collaboration over the next few months.

Peter Szilveszter from Living Lens wrote the blog entries for each day, as well as putting together a little video summary on day 4:
http://www.exposeddownunder.com.au/?p=2260

I am proud to have been part of an event that I believe will become a ‘red-letter day/week’ in the development of Australian wedding filmmaking. There were many hands involved in putting this together, but thanks must go especially to Rochelle Morris of Sauvignon Media Creations in Melbourne.

We are looking forward to creating an event that is bigger and better next year !! Stay tuned to http://www.exposeddownunder.com.au for the announcements for 2011.

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