Our first filming extravaganza involved the bride - during what turned out to be a Stolichnaya-fuelled unpacking frenzy - insisting that her 40-plus trousseau of all-white designed ensembles captured for prosperity. Once the happy couple had landed, a steady trickle of increasingly frantic demands started almost immediately, which seemed to correlate with how much vodka had been consumed. With so much to cover we soon got used to the hairpin bends on the cliff tops of the island.īut it became clear that even the expansive organised schedule of non-stop events wasn’t enough. And for those not yet on life support, a blowout final night of revelry ending with a 45-minute firework display across the spellbinding Amalfi Coast set to another live music line-up.Ītmospheric montage shots of Capri were also a must, in between time.
The next day a nine-yacht flotilla would sail wedding guests to neighbouring Positano for a five-course lunch in a private cove with entertainment from top comedy stand-up acts. This included filming the couple’s arrival from the Balearics via private jet after their guests’ arrival from Russia via charter flights, extensive wedding cortege preparations at a hotel in the hills, a mountain-top marriage ceremony at an exclusive spa resort followed by a ten-course wedding breakfast at the privately hired marina, accompanied by live performances from international pop stars. We scaled the crew and equipment as best we could to cover all eventualities.
They wanted a Hollywood blockbuster of a wedding video. It quickly became clear that this high-rolling, spend-happy pair required a 24/7 documentary crew to cover their every move, as well as those of their guests, across multiple locations across the island, over five days and nights of festivities. The couple in question was shrouded in mystery - we were initially contacted by a PR company - which meant that until we had arrived at the venue and signed NDAs, we weren’t given an inkling as to the sheer volume of what was needed during their five-day cavalcade of excess. I’ve scaled diamond mines in Angola with militia watching our every move so a few days capturing some tender moments and fluttering confetti against the lapping waters of the Bay of Naples sounded straightforward, and rather fun. Arranging a film for a wedding wasn’t our normal territory, but entirely do-able. The gig? To make a glitzy video for a Russian oligarch’s wedding.Īt the time, I headed up an award-winning film production company, and was experienced in working with high-end clients in the form of luxury brands. A five-day trip to Capri, the epicentre of La Dolce Vita glamour. We reserve the right to determine what is acceptable to our audience and may decline content at any time.The brief seemed too good to be true. * All uploaded images will be manually approved by a HDWS moderator before being published live. You must be the copyright owner of the image.Featured: If accepted, your image will be used for the HDWS website banner and Facebook cover photo.We forward (85%) of each sale through PayPal. Once purchased, users will have the right to use your image for both personal and commercial projects.
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