Videographer Sergey Andreev: ideas and subjects for filming a lavstory

Shooting pre-wedding “lavstory” has been popular for quite some time - both in photo and video format. This is a great gift for guests, and the opportunity to make your wedding more individual and heartfelt, and a memory that will remain for many years ” - says Sergey Andreev in an interview with the editors of Nevesta.Moscow.

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The most common variant of pre-wedding shooting is an ordinary walk through beautiful places. The couple, as a rule, offers the route in advance. But there is a more original type - a plot shooting, where the plot is either fictionalized or based on real events. Especially for such a “lavstori” is written a script with a storyboard. This is convenient because it allows you to estimate the scale of work and time period in advance. Some sessions last 2-3 days.

To come up with a story, information about the couple is first collected: how long they have been together, how they met, what they have in common, what were the difficulties in communication, how they overcame them. In the “laustori” is not interesting if everything will be smooth and fairy-tale beautiful. There should be dynamics in the development of the plot: surprises, surprises, comical incidents, some obstacles and barriers that the couple managed to overcome and keep their love.

Sergey Andreev

CEO

For example, we did such a shoot for tennis player Maria Kirilenko. She is an honored master of sports, a prize-winner at the Olympic doubles tennis tournament. The wedding was in winter. The guys called a week before the shooting and said that they wanted a story “laustori” with a script. Well, the shooting in nature was rejected by itself: winter, frost, at any moment it can snow or, conversely, snowdrifts turn into slush. That's why we decided to start from the real story of their acquaintance and shoot in interiors. And the story is really interesting. Alexei saw her playing and wanted to get acquainted. Started looking for Maria on the Internet. He found her website, tried to get her phone number, but it didn't work. But his friends got him her father's phone number, and he wrote to him that he wanted to play tennis with his daughter. Dad passed the request on to Masha, but she refused. The real challenge Alexei overcame: he did reach out to Maria! He offered her a helicopter ride, but she didn't want it at first. Then the circumstances were such that she wrote to him herself. They did go for a helicopter ride, and after that their relationship began to develop quickly, and they got married.

There is another interesting idea for filming - “laustori” with a rewind. The beginning: she - in a wedding dress, he - in a suit. Then the frames as if “go back in time”: here they choose these outfits, and before that quarreled, reconciled, went for a walk, he proposed to her - up to the moment of acquaintance. This technique is called “retrospective”.

Shooting abroad has a completely different specificity: it is usually warmer there, the weather is better, the light is different. The main characters also feel better and cozier: calls do not distract, there is no need to hurry anywhere, the mood is great. Traveling with the couple shooting team, as a rule, consists of the main operator and an assistant. This way it is possible to take all the necessary equipment and shoot with two cameras from different angles.

Sergey Andreev

CEO

What I would like to do most of all now is to do a project like this: shooting in different cities around the world with a certain storyline that connects these cities. It would turn out to be very colorful and original.