Nic & Sophie
Nic and Sophie at Montage Laguna Beach, down to the water. Sound on.
Down to the rocks.
Nic and Sophie were married at Montage Laguna Beach. The frame this film is held on has the two of them hand in hand on dark wet rock at the tide line, surf breaking behind them, the bluff rising on the left. Getting to the water at all here means the ramp down from the resort, and standing on that rock means a tide low enough to allow it.
The film runs six minutes and six seconds. Watch it with sound.
Notes on the place.
Two things govern a shoot here and neither is on the floor plan. The first is the ramp. Everything below the lawns has to be carried down and carried back, so we work light at the water: one body, one lens, nothing on legs. The second is the horizon. The lawns face open ocean, so the sun sits behind anyone facing the water, and in the last hour of the day the margin between a face and a silhouette is narrow. You choose which one you are making before you roll, not in the grade afterwards.
