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I am now offering wedding photography in London, Essex and anywhere you want. We can offer film and photo packages so please do contact for a complete quote. Booking the photo and video at the same time from the same supplier has a few advantages, one that is is easier for you as a couple and two that you know your videographer and photographer will work well together, therefore getting you the best results. This is a major thing… Please visit the page above for more information.
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Really pleased that my latest wedding film from Batty Langley’s and Wilton’s Music Hall has won editors choice over at wevsy.com the Wedding and Event Videographer Society. Thanks for the recognition.
So pleased again to have won ‘Wedding Videographer Of The Year 2024’ in East England for the 5th year running in the Wedding Industry Awards or TWIA… On to the national finals now in London in Jan…
The Wedding Industry awards 2024 are here, and have just completed my questionaire for them and thought I would share the info here… here are the answers to my questions:
Please describe your style of wedding videography: I want to cause minimal disruption to the wedding day… I want the couple to enjoy it and it not be a film set or photo shoot if that is what they want. I want the films and shots to be artistic and creative.. I am totally against just walking into a room and pointing the camera straight at them and pressing the record button. I am against staged cheesy shots…
I think as the standard of videography has increased people are demanding more time on a wedding day and thinking their job is the most important…it follows on that a big part of the skill is being so experienced that you are super fast at getting results… 10 minutes with the couple and you get absolutely oustanding shots every time… no making them wait around whilst you set things up.
Explaining and planning months before the day so that things always work perfectly. They have never done a wedding before…I send out my guide for brides video which illustrates all the various things that can happen at weddings and totally gets them on board… it shows them bad lighting, bridesmaids rushing down the aisle with no gap, bad DJ lighting, bad sound, every single thing I have seen over the years shown in a video so that they ‘get it’ when you explain things. They see mobile phones in the aisle and speeches, they see hair and makeup wasting time doing their tick tock marketing videos, everything we moan about I try to explain… I honestly believe that poor communication is the root of most problems we have.
I try to do less of my own weddings per year, charge more, and spend more hours editing and planning and preparing.
Who do you take inspiration from: The people that are top of their game…. Carravaggio for lighting and Michelangelo for cropping. Film cinematographers Emmanuel Lubezki, Roger Deakins, wedding guys, Jerry Ghionis for posing, lighting and composition. Philip Bloom for film making. Tom Cross, Adam Epstein and Alex Buono for editing. Curtis Judd for sound., Ollie Kenchington for colour grading. Luke Edmonson for his knowledge of art history. Victor Lax from fearless photographers.
This is the same answer as last year as it has not changed… but I guess also I think it’s quite a lucrative industry, it allows lots of time that you can be in charge of (the self empoyment). I enjoy working with people that are having the best day of their life and are all happy.. its a nice environment to work in. It sounds funny, but I do also enjoy these competitions, and the technical side of it and learning and trying to always improve.
How do your couples find you: I have had more referrals this year, so I think guests and friends see you work on the day and then the finished films and think they want that at their wedding…. then the quality of the films…. the pre wedding help and adivce and illustrating problems they had not thought of before the wedding… I think now I have shot over 250 weddings so am able to give couples lots of information and advice. They must think I am friendly and easy going!
Firstly the quality of the delivered wedding films, but also now more the information I am giving out before the wedding. We have video footage of the common wedding mistakes and can show couples why you ask for certain things. I associate shoot for other companies and shoot photos so have over 150 weddings under my belt now and can give out a wealth of information to clients and spot problems before they happen. We may be biased but I think out of all the wedding suppliers the photographer and videographer see the wedding day from start to finish unlike lots of other suppliers.
I try to watch lots of Hollywood films that have well respected Directors of Photography. I have a degree in Physics so studied light. I often go on courses and to seminars. I have judged awards for Weva and Inspiration Photographers and often see little things I lile… This has not changed from last year… I am happy to pay to learn from the best rather than listen to the endless low quality or biased free advice online. I also watch your films and try to learn from competitors. I have watched all the MZED courses, Jerry Ghionis courses, Riccardo Fassoli courses, Philip White courses, been to the ‘For Loves Sake’ workshop to seen Gione Da Silva and you Jeff Woods, Richard Leng and Daniel Armitage.. I think you can never stop learning. I am never too proud to admit I can learn new things from anyone.I also have a degree in Physics so studied light and optics at university.
What is important in a good wedding video: The sound and the people and what they say. The sound to me is what drives the emotion, the music timed and combined with an emotional speech or reading or vow exchange I think has more power than visuals to trigger feelings and emotions. Good shots go without saying and are the window dressing. To me the actual wedding is a vow exchange, which is spoken words, so the audio of the vow exchange is the most important thing to capture on the day.
More lovel and appreciated feeback from Sunniva and Jelmer after receiving their wedding videos:
We absolutely love the videos. It is pure perfection and we couldn’t be more happy with them. Looking through them it feels like we are reliving the day. You are an incredible talented videographer and we are SO happy we chose you to capture this day!
Some lovely and appreciated feedback from Lynsey and Kalil after receiving their wedding videos:
Anyone planning a wedding will be familiar with spending some time shortlisting potential suppliers but as soon as we came across Phil’s work we were eager to secure him for our wedding date immediately. I can’t comment on the technical nature of his work much but, quite simply, Phil’s work was the best we had seen in every way: the sound; light; his ability to both convey and rouse very different emotions in just one film (and despite footage being in a different language, as in our film’s case); his flair for telling a story…
He is genuinely an expert and it was reassuring knowing that the film capturing the most important day of our life so far was always going to turn out spectacularly when produced by him. It seemed to us that every couple’s film was produced with such dedication and pride in one’s work and ours was no exception. Despite spending just a few hours with us, our film manages to capture our idiosyncrasies Phil wouldn’t know about, and those of our loved ones. We know it will get even better with age — and it was actually the timeless quality of his films which was also particularly attractive to us.
Despite being a perfectionist with meticulous attention to detail, Phil was good company on the day as he’s also laidback and has a great sense of humour — welcome traits when spending some time with us both during a tense morning and other moments of vulnerability throughout the day. It is remarkable how he strikes this balance between having the highest standards yet also going with the flow and being unobtrusive.
We unreservedly recommend booking Phil.
Lynsey & Kalil AK
So so pleased to have won The Wedding Industry Awards regional event for the 4th year in a row, to be Wedding Videographer Of The Year 2023 in East England… and through to the national event in London in January… was a great event at Applewood Hall.. To check out all the TWIA winners take a look at the TWIA (The Wedding Industry Awards) webite… and fingers crossed for Janruary.
Great to have a blog post coming up on Lovestoriestv.com featuring me with UK wedding videographers. The article is here:
https://lovestoriestv.com/recommended-united-kingdom-videographers
Here is some of the chat I sent them.
I am Philip London a UK based wedding filmmaker. I won ‘best videographer’ at the UK Wedding Awards and was Global Winner at the 2021 International Wedding Awards.
Application makes the difference for me. More time learning the skills of wedding filmmaking, more time planning and giving advice before the day, more time editing, to go the extra mile with creating the best possible film with the footage that has been captured. I aim to do less weddings per year, and be as enthusiastic about your wedding as you are, like I am filming my best friend’s wedding. Many wedding suppliers I work with just want to go home as soon as possible and are stuck on their set hours.
I want to create a more artistic wedding film, not stand directly in front of a list of people or things and press the record button. You could do that yourself with your iphone. A good analogy is that all of us wedding filmmakers are cooking the same dish, but we can all put in different amounts of each ingredient, to create our own unique taste. I prioritise light first, location second, composition third, flattering people fourth. Emotion goes without saying, anyone with a heartbeat will capture children laughing or a dad crying. I have no control over light for most of the wedding, so searching out beautiful natural light is the best way to make your film look amazing. If you prioritise location, then you will just be lucky with the light sometimes. This is why Hollywood films use £500,000 of lights because they are choosing location first, then have to create the light. Don’t get me wrong if you are getting married under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we will have it work, but on average lighting is the priority.
Really pleased to have won ‘Wedding Videographer Of The Year’ for 2022 at the Wedding Industry Awards last night for East England.. third year in a row… more to follow on from this great night at Applewood Hall in Norfolk. Looking forward to the National awards. #TWIA22 #twia2022 #TWIA
To follow on from winning the local event of the ‘International Wedding Awards’ I am pleased to announce that I have won the country round level for United Kingdom and go through to the global round of the awards… this will be announced after Christmas so fingers crossed.
Pleased this week to have won the ‘International Wedding Awards’ local event and be through to the next round. The International Wedding Awards are based in Milan, in Lombardy Italy. After that the winners go through to the global event… which apparently might not happen with Covid 19 as there may not be enough entrants. The awards can be seen here.
With 2500 wedding videos, from 500 participants, from 32 countries, judged by 120 judges, I am so pleased and honoured to have won ‘The Best Videographer Award’, ‘Best Cameraman Award’ and ‘Best Wedding Highlights Film’, and 2nd place for ‘Best Editor Award’ in the Weva (Worldwide Event Videographers Association) CEE Category (European Awards). https://weva.pro/en/cee-award-2020/
This week I have the amazing following review:
We don’t even know where to start with this review, but here we go. Philip is an absolutely amazing wedding videographer and made our wedding video a masterpiece that makes us cry every time we watch it. He was able to recreate the same emotion we had during the most beautiful day of our lives. Philip is uncomplicated, professional, super motivated and friendly. He will do everything in his possession to make every detail look perfect! We were more than happy about the result that exceeded our expectations. It was a real pleasure to have this great videographer at our wedding who is so passionate and will even go do some extra work to make it even more special. We are really grateful we found him and can recommend him to anyone who wants a film like looking wedding video! Thanks again Philip 🙂
Tamara & Michael
Amazing this week to be chosen as Editors Choice on Weva.pro. A great resource for wedding videography
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A great honour to be asked to judge the Inspiration Photographers Awards 2020 for the filmmaking category. Some great films here.
Totally chuffed to have won for the second year running the title of ‘2021 Wedding Videographer Of The Year’ for the region of East England at The Wedding Industry Awards. This week there was a knock at the door and my winners trophy was delivered, to match the winners trophy from last year… I am now into the last 7 nationally and hope to win the national title.
Its ‘The 2021 Wedding Industry Awards’ time, totally chuffed again to be chosen as a regional finalist in my region.. with the awards night online this coming weeking on Saturday night I hope to win and go through to the National awards. The virtual awards night is free for all and anyone can watch… will update here with details.
I won the ‘best documentary video’ category and was also awarded ‘highly commended’ overall at the Siena Drone Photography Awards. There should be an awards night in Siena in Italy at the “Teatro dei Rinnovati” theatre, in October, during Siena Awards Festival…. but not sure that will happen this year…. check out the awards here https://droneawards.photo/gallery
My wedding video from Gosfield Hall in Essex has been selected by the ‘Worldwide Event Videographers Association’ to be video of the day again. Nice to be recognised by them and awarded these things. Head over to Weva.pro to check out some of the best wedding videographers.
Really pleased that my wedding video from Stoke Park has been awarded video of the week from the Worldwide Event Videographers Association and is on their homepage. I am also the number one ranked wedding videographer in the UK on their site.
Some trophy photography whilst stuck in Coronavirus lockdown…. so in the week I had a knock at the door and a courier left a parcel from USA on the doorstep….. I opened it up to have a nice large quality WPPI trophy, which was nice…. so I took a photo of it…. from 2nd place in the Wedding Portrait Photographers International competition at the end of last year. Can’t complain about that… then went on to shoot the other trophies I have won this year… so you know where to come for product photography!
Continuing on from that I shot the award for 2020 Best Wedding Videographer at the UK Wedding Awards:
And then I have the 2020 Wedding Videographer of the Year at the Wedding Industry Awards for East England:
Philip London in the latest edition of Absolute Bridal Magazine.
Check the latest edition (spring 2019) of Absolute Bridal Magazine containing Philip London and lots of top wedding suppliers. Distributed at selected supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury, and Asda.
Essex Wedding Awards – Videographer Of The Year 2018-2019.
We are proud to annouce that Philip London was a finalist for Wedding Videographer Of The Year 2018-2019 at the recent Essex Wedding Awards at Orsett Hall. More details to follow:
Philip London Official Shortlist for the 2018 Filmconvert Short Film Competition.
We are delighted to announce that Philip London has been officially selected as a finalist in the 2018 Filmconvert Short Film Competition. This is a worldwide competition judged by some of the top cinematographers and film editors/producers in the world. More to follow.
Philip London – Essex Videographer Of The Year Finalist in the upcoming Wedding Awards.
We are delighted to annouce that Philip London wedding films are officially a finalist of the Essex Wedding Awards 2019. With the awards night looming we hope that Philip London becomes Wedding Videographer of the year for 2019 here.
I am now able to offer funeral videography. With the current limit on guests at funerals with the covid restrictions, a video recording can be the best way for family and friends to see the service. I can also offer live streaming.
