Jordon & Annie
Jordon and Annie at The Hollywood Roosevelt. Sound on.
Above the noise.
Jordon and Annie were married at The Hollywood Roosevelt, and the frame we kept for this film is the quiet one: the two of them close together on a terrace, an olive branch crossing the foreground, hillside buildings and greenery stacked up behind. It is a twelve-story hotel on the Walk of Fame, and this is what it looks like once you are above the street.
The film runs six minutes and fifty-three seconds. That length is a decision rather than a default.
Notes on the place.
The Roosevelt opened in 1927 and is still a working hotel, which is the part that shapes a wedding day here more than the history does. Corridors are in use, the lobby is in use, and the building does not pause for you. That is not a complaint. It is why frames made here feel lived in rather than dressed. Practically it means a film at this address is built out of small, well chosen positions instead of big ones: a lens down the length of a corridor, a wide from the far side of the pool deck, a terrace found at the right hour and held for two minutes. The hotel is generous if you arrive knowing where to stand.