Eric and Melissa - the movie!

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Back in April this year Ileana and David shot the wedding of Melissa & Eric Peel - you can see their wedding photos here and their beach “Fashion Shoot” here.

Now we’re featuring the short version of their wedding movie.

It’s taken longer to get online than the stills partly because we’ve been developing a new style of wedding movie production, in which we feature the words and feelings of the couple themselves much more than usual, and that has required some extra post-production work.

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Platypus Video Workshop - “Five Minute Movies”

Posted by Chris Mann

As part of our recent Platypus Video Workshop, each of us had to make a five-minute documentary on a subject of our choice.

Not too hard, you might think - but we only had a single day in which to shoot it, and a day and a half allowed to download and edit the footage into a finished piece!

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The Platypus Video Workshop comes to Turks & Caicos!

Posted by Chris Mann

Last week we learned a lot! For eight days, Andy, Preston, David and myself were barraged with ideas, techniques, tips, tricks, and best practice - in the world of “video journalism”.

Renowned photojournalists Dirck Halstead and PF Bentley brought their “Platypus Workshop” to our Neptune Plaza office to turn the four of us into “filmmakers” - in other words to teach us how to transform our wedding and commercial video productions into professional video documentaries, with the style and impact of TV shows such as NBC’s 60 Minutes and ABC’s Nightline.

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