Tyler & Rachel
Tyler and Rachel, married at The Portofino Hotel & Marina in Redondo Beach. Sound on.
Above the harbor.
Tyler and Rachel were married at The Portofino Hotel & Marina, out on the peninsula at King Harbor in Redondo Beach. The frame we kept as the poster is the two of them on the pale concrete seawall above the water, the rock breakwater and the moored boats stacked up behind them, and the low late sun coming in across the water behind them.
The film runs just under four minutes, and that is deliberate. A harbor hands you a small number of very strong images and a lot of repetition. What is worth keeping is narrow: water, wind, faces, and the quiet in between.
Notes on the place.
The Portofino has been on this peninsula since 1962, when it opened as the Portofino Inn, and the property still behaves like a working harbor rather than a resort that happens to face water. Boats come and go. Rigging knocks against masts. That is not a problem to solve, it is the sound of the place, and we record it rather than fight it. The one thing worth protecting is the walk. The seawall and dock frames sit away from the ballrooms, and on a day that has already slipped, those minutes are the first thing anyone offers to cut.