Motion FAQs

What’s the motion session all about?

Videos, like your photographs, website, and social media are an extension of your branding. It’s produced with a combination of logic and emotion to connect with your audience.

For the 30 second video, we capture elements from the photoshoot and use only the best parts. Footage is expertly woven together across the video timeline, mixed with sounds or music which appeals to your prospective clients in way where it excites or creates a nostalgia, thus comforting them. The cuts get right to the point showcasing the best parts joust enough, but leave one wanting more.

The 10 additional clips can consist of favorite shots from the 30 second, or out takes from the shoot, and are applicable for even shorter attention spans.

Can you explain the workflow of the session?

The session is designed to compliment the photoshoot, while potentially featuring a few shots not covered for the stills. We plan the photoshoot with the usual mood boards along with discussing and selecting locations. It’s helpful to have music track options prior to the shoot. The more we know, the more imaginative I’ll be on how to shoot and cut the video.

On set, we capture video before wardrobe changes. Common video themes parallel common themes for photos: lounging resting & relaxing in lingerie or cute attire, prepping for dates, cooking/consuming foods & libations, traveling to dates, making an entrance, making an exit, etc.

48hrs post shoot you’ll receive photo proofs via dropbox. Approx 10 days from there, you’ll receive a “proof reel” in the same dropbox, which functions very similarly to photo proofs. The video proof reel includes the 1st roughcut of your video with the outtakes or extra clips sequenced after the roughcut. Every clip is numbered, for example: A roughcut which consists of 15 clips with be numbered 1 thru 15, and the 30 outtakes/extra clips that follow will be numbered 16 thru 45. We use the numbers as references which shots to cut or swap around when working towards a final cut. You can also request to cut shots to a certain length, or extend. Same thing when selecting the 10 short clips. Once we’re locked into edits, I color grade the video and add any necessary blurs to cover identity. I’ll include wide and tall versions of all video when applicable.

Any tips for a smooth and productive shoot?

If you have ideas, and you brought outfits or props for those ideas. . try it out, go for it. It sucks to back, wondering how they would have turned out. Give yourself some room to fail. I can still pull things together in editing and create some gold.

Try not to take 2,3, 4 + weeks to give feedback on edits. It kills momentum and creative energy on my end.

Also, if you’re squeamish about video, and the limitations vs. photo editing, the lens i primarily use for video is quite flattering. Plus, unlike stills, video is constantly capturing, and I’ll be directing and position you towards the most flattering looks. So we get every bit of goodness from everything we shoot to work with.