PIER-YVES
MENKHOFF
...is
journalist and video director since about fifteen years. He lives
in Paris and San Jose, CA. Among his collaborations : MacWorld,
Video Camera, Photo, SVM Mac, La Nouvelle Revue du Son, Sciences
& Vie High Tech, Sonovision Broadcast, etc. He is the author of
short films and reports, fashion shows, advertisements, event... He
has directed films for Four Seasons Paris & Nyc, Sony, Nina
Ricci, Vanity Fair, Lou, Bolero, Universal, le Musée Guimet,
Rentokil, etc.
YES,
IT IS POSSIBLE TO FILM OR TO PHOTOGRAPHY YOUR WEDDING WITHOUT
"POSE"...
<< The Video
Reports and Photo are the
MOST IMPORTANT elements of your
event; there are
THE MEMORY. You will not wear
any more this magnificent dress quite as this suit. In contrario,
there will be an album photo and your happiness, your laughter and
the other feelings recorded
FOR EVER on a
HIGH RESOLUTION DVD or
BLU-RAY DISC or the other
support.
I like the reality with its laughter and its tears. It's life. I
always found poignant these photographers and these directors who
did not still understand that a Wedding movie or a photographies
album has to reflect the reality. A Wedding is not a fiction. It is
not "Hollywood".
Also, most of them
claim to have a "journalistic approach". It is false. Most make
pose or stage. I am journalist. I have never seen one of my
colleagues making pose on an event. So much for me.
I think that a Wedding must be filmed or photographed without ever
interfering on its progress. It belongs to the video director or to
the photographer to adapt himself to your event.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO POSE FOR US. It is your DAY.
Not our. There is no emotion in a look "congealed" in a given
order.
My presence is
discreet, transparent. You have to forget totally our
presence. It is necessary to know how to keep in the "backround",
to keep silent for capturing these unexpected dialogues. I would
not make you pose.
I OFFER YOU the film of your
Wedding if I make you pose it would be only once. However, I
shall capture every moment lived by you. I like stable shots, wide
shots ; those who give time to the look, time to time, time to the
emotion.
Afterward, I would edit personally your movie. Henceforth,
everybody edits the same type of movie with the same effects :
multiple slow motions, effects with abundance, colorization, audio
dubbing everywhere, etc. It is "Avatar" (1).
The numerous special effects on a Wedding movie are not a proof of
imagination. There are, on the contrary, the proof that the
director was incapable to seize the emotion of the event with its
details. It is the details which make the difference.
A director or a photographer has to have his own writing and not
reproduce what he sees in the cinema. Our challenge is of
reproduced the reality of your event with all the emotion which you
lived. Did you walk in "slow motion" the day of your Wedding ? Did
the sky was in Sepia color or in Black and White ? Have you already
seen a Sean Penn's movie ? a Robert Bresson's movie ? a Raymond
Depardon's movie ? a Seiji Ozu's movie ? They know how to
retranscribe the reality with emotion.
My movies contain very few effects. Just some transitions where it
is necessary and credits, possible thanks, etc.. The audio dubbing
is discreet too. It is important to keep the atmosphere of the
event.
Your movie has to be the reflection of what was your event. With
emotion. No more, no less...
Do not hesitate to ask me for a DVD of one of my realizations, I
would send it to you with pleasure...
To conclude, I
invite you to read the
opinions of my clients on my
Wedding movies.
Best
regards
Pier-Yves Menkhoff
(1) I like the film "Avatar". However, a fiction is a fiction, a
wedding is not a fiction...
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