A grand ballroom reception inside one of Philadelphia's most iconic hotels, filmed for sound as much as for picture.
The Bellevue is a hotel that has hosted weddings for over a century. The ballroom is grand in a way that pulls focus, but Jess and David didn't want a film about the room. They wanted a film about the people in it, the family who flew in from across the country, the friends who knew them before they knew each other, the toasts that ran long because nobody wanted them to end.
So we built the coverage around audio first. Vows captured cleanly on two lavs and the venue's house sound. Speeches recorded from the soundboard and a backup mic at the head table. The room's acoustics worked with us instead of against us because we accounted for the marble and the height of the ceiling before the doors opened.