Thats it, done, finished, finita, terminé, fertig, 完成した, законченный. I know, I know, my knowledge of other languages is mindblowing, in fact the reason it's taken as long as it has is down to the vast array of different language subtitles and dubs that have been done for it (listening to Pete dubbed in swahaili is brilliantly hilarious).
Like all of these types of projects it's had it's ups and downs but thankfully the ups have well outweighed the downs and like all good journeys I've learned things along the way, for example don't delete render files from final cut unless you want to spend the best part of a morning re-rendering the entire project again (that one is more for anyone who edits and is probably a schoolboy error on my part) also I've learned perseverance and to not give up looking for the old woman, because she is there and her inclusion is more than worth the effort it took to find her (this one will become clear once you see the finished product, it's not me stating my affection for the older lady) and lastly, that in the respect of putting together a wedding video there are only two people that matter and thats the bride and groom, there was a point that I was going to create two versions, one would be more like the one thats finished and one that had a bit more of a traditional feel to it (not that I'm too sure exactly what that would look like but I have an idea), but in the end I decided to stick to what i knew and what I knew Jo and Pete would like.
As is tradition for us we held our own mini premier, minus the red carpet unfortunaly, I did offer to spray paint a yoga mat red but it was met with kind of a muted response so I decided to give that one a miss. So with our small gathering we sat and watched the thing that I'd been working on for tha past 8 weeks, them nervous wondering if what they was about to witness was going to be somthing that they could treasure for years to come or if it would be somthing that they would watch, realise it was terrible, be polite about with a comment along the lines of "the lighting was great" and then never watch again hiding it away in a box in the loft. I was nervous thinking pretty much the exact same thing but with a few instances of worrying weather a whole host of technical things were right. Thankfully they laughed and they cried and in all the right places for all the right reasons and that told me that I must have done somthing right and that exact reaction was all I needed to know that all my hard work had paid off and that they had a wedding DVD that they can hopefully be proud of.
I Just want to finish this blog off by saying a huge thank you to Jo and Pete from Neil and myself for trusting us with this huge responsibilty of filming your special day and that we hope we've made you proud and we both wish you a lifetime of happiness together.
