there is no business like show/music business

Video shoot after video shoot is going by and time is flying fast. People are being ushered around, make-up is being fixed, the filming days are getting longer and longer. You think that I’m getting tired of this? No way! That’s the most amazing part of the business if you ask me! Lots of people involved in a project, seeing it all come together and creating some amazing work of art, that’s what it’s all about in my opinion. You can literally see how passionate people are about their work.

During the last couple of weeks we had some really amazing video shoots. The first one I would like to tell you about was the video shoot for the band “Pony & Trap” performing their song “Time To Engage”. After the shoot our videographer did an amazing job with editing all of it and creating a really cool music video for them. It’s fresh, new and colourful. Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxMdH3_4vSw

Do you want to hear something new, exciting and completely different? Then you should definitely check out the band called “The 45s”. They are an upcoming British boy band from Carlisle and we had the honour of doing two music videos for them! It all started in Camden where we were filming them having a walk around stables market and such while messing around. We got some really cool footage. In the evening they had a gig in this area so we filmed them while performing. The audience loved them and so did/do we! These boys are extremely talented as they are only teenagers and write all of their music themselves. You should really check them out: http://vimeo.com/90117058

Enough about music now. We also have a new shoot for Bounce BMX coming up. Do you remember our last shoot for them? It was thrilling and a great success. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6fEe42zNM. These riders were just incredible and our video shows pretty good what you can do with such an awesome mini bike!

A little girl’s dream

Every girl dreams about the perfect wedding. There have to be an amazing dress, a beautiful ceremony, the perfect (diamond) ring, helpful bridesmaids, an entertaining and perfectly organised reception but most of all a partner that you adore with all of your heart. This day is supposed to be the highlight of every relationship. A wedding strengthens not only the bond between the couple, it also connects two families.

So what happens if you’re not the little girl dreaming about their wedding any longer but you’re an engaged grown-up woman, completely overwhelmed by all the possibilities for your wedding? Well let me help you with this. I’ve done a bit of research about this year’s wedding trends for a good friend of mine so maybe I can inspire you a bit.

For a perfect wedding you should have a kind of theme or topic for the decoration, the playlist, the food as well as for the entertainment. The most popular theme of 2013 and 2014 is “The Great Gatsby”. Basically the whole wedding is inspired by the glamorous age of the 20s. The task is to keep it very classic and romantic but entertaining and fun. The main colours involved are white, gold, pastel and light pink. Weddings have gone much softer these days, focusing on more romantic kind of colours. The location definitely include these for a great extend. The flower arrangements are very classic as well. They usually include anemones, garden roses, poppies, lilac with greens in it like leaves, grass or vines. These keep it retro but modern at the same time. Not only the flowers but also the invitations tend to be more retro. Going with the topic “The Great Gatsby”, the invitations  can be customised with handwriting, lace or gold foil stamping. Whatever you dream of can come true. Another big topic is the food. Of course the cake is the main thing at celebrations like that. Today’s wedding cakes are really classic, which goes great with the topic “The Great Gatsby”. They can include many different colours, glitter, gold or whatever suits the bride and the groom. The food can be specified to the attending guests but a big trend for this year are spicy food as well as small late night snacks.These snacks can include food like, churros, pretzels, nuts, etc.. Another big thing about 2014’s weddings is the so-called “social food”. There you don’t have waiters bringing you the food. The guests get their food by themselves. This encourages the socializing of the guests. When it comes to music the biggest trend for 2014 is playing your favourite songs in the style of your wedding, e.g. playing songs like “Without You” by David Guetta in the style of the 20s or a string quartet playing “Flaws” by Bastille.

The ultimate goal is to make it the perfect wedding that nobody will ever forget. So in order to do so, hiring a photographer and/or a videographer is a must! Imagine planning the most beautiful wedding ever and not having anyone to capture these special moments with a (video) camera? Weddings can get really expensive but you should never save money on not hiring a photographer (team)! We at The Light Studios in London offer really good and competitive prices for wedding photography. With our pictures no important detail will ever be forgotten. Talking to the bride as well as to the groom and the families is an important part of our work. We give them advice from our own experiences and help them as much as possible. Every loving glance exchanged between bride and groom will be in our pictures because in the end it’s all about love isn’t it; and this is exactly what we do at weddings: Capturing the love.

Tinchy Stryder

stressed, well dressed and boy band obsessed

Well this title sums it up perfectly… Yesterday we had a very big shoot going on in our studio! It was the first big shoot this week. The next one will be tomorrow. We had a quite well-known boy band in our studio: drumrolls… Union J! It was all very exiting. I’m actually not such a really big fan of Union J. I’ve listened to their music before and I really liked it but it’s not like I know all the lyrics. Although the thought of meeting the boys was very cool! I’ve watched them on the X Factor in 2012 so knew who they were. It’s always kind of cool if you meet celebrities that you usually just know from TV screens or magazines. The shoot was supposed to start at 12 but all of us came in at about 9.30 to set up the studio and to make sure that everything was clean and tidy. When my boss got the call that the boys were in front of the studio it was my job to go outside and to show them the way to our studio. I met them in front of the building and I got a hug and a kiss from everyone. They are much taller than I thought I have to admit! On the screens they looked much smaller. All of them were very nice. They are not putting up some kind of act for the cameras, they are all very kind, caring and just hilarious. There was also a little girl in a wheelchair who had won a meet and greet with the boys. She was overwhelmed with her feelings and her favourite member (George) took some time for comforting her and talking to her. He was very sweet and really cared a lot about her! Union J is not a band made up for the public! They are really nice and most important not fake! The shoot itself was for their new photo app. It went quite well. At first there were way too many people in the studio so that filming was more or less impossible! Eventually we figured out a good way of handling this situation: We created a small seating area outside the studio so that their management as well as their make-up artists could change from being inside and outside the studio whenever they were needed. The shoot was finished a bit earlier than expected but when the guys wanted to leave we had a problem: The amount of fans outside the studio was quite big! Seeing all the girls outside the studio was kind of cool! I have never seen something like that before. It was a long but exiting day… It reminded me again that this internship is an awesome experience! Meeting such a nice band really was one of my highlights of this internship so far! Let’s see what Thursday has in stock for me…

Camden, Kentish and the Overground

So yesterday was one of my travel days through London again… Before work I did some shopping for a friend of mine. It’s her birthday next week and I bought some small presents for her. First I printed some pictures at Boots and afterwards I went to Covent Garden in order to buy a specific jumper. I thought the shops opened at about 10am but it turned out that they opened at 10:30 so I had to wait another half an hour. The guy working at the shop was quite rude to me but I had to get that jumper so I didn’t have much of a choice… My intention was to go straight to the post office in order to send all the presents to my friend but because that shop opened later than expected I didn’t have any time left for that so I went to work. The odds weren’t in my favour so I spend about 45 minutes to get to the office because there were problems with the tube. I arrived at the office at about 11:30. My boss suggested that I should go to the closet post office straight away. I was really glad that she said that! So I went to the post office, send all the presents to my friend and bought some tape for my boss…

When I got back to the office I was able to take part in a very interesting meeting! It was about a shoot for a short clip for a big music channel in the UK. Many celebrities are going to come to the studio for that. Those people are well-known all over the world! I can’t say the names of them but we’re working together with Universal for this shoot… It’s going to be a busy day for us and I”m so looking forward to that! I”ll definitely update all of my readers about the shoot so keep an eye on my blog.

After the meeting my boss send me to pick up a hard drive from a videographer. He was supposed to give us some footage. At first I was told to go to Kentish Town tube station and to meet him there. It took me ages to get there… When I arrived I got a text saying that I have to go to Canonbury Overground station to meet him there. By that time it was already dark so I was looking for Kentish Town West Overground station in an area where I have never been. Eventually I found it and went up there. Then I got a call telling me to just go outside the station to meet him there. So after almost 2.5 hours I’ve finally managed to get that hard drive! That was my adventurous travel adventure from yesterday.