Zoe & Mitch
Zoe and Mitch, on the La Jolla coast. Four minutes, start to finish. Sound on.
Close, and laughing.
Zoe and Mitch were married in La Jolla, and the frame that opens this film is the one we kept coming back to: the two of them close enough that the background has gone to nothing, she is laughing, he is in a light suit, and the focus holds on her face. Four minutes, start to finish.
There is no venue name on this page because there does not need to be. On this stretch of coast the location carries a film on its own. What the frame shows is a long lens and a background gone to nothing, which is how we work a coast that is doing the heavy lifting on its own.
Notes on the coast.
La Jolla sits on Cretaceous sandstone bluffs that step down to the water in terraces, roughly sixteen feet at Goldfish Point and over a hundred feet further along, with sea caves cut into the rock below. Two things follow from that. The coast faces west, so the light at the end of the day comes in flat and low and turns the stone warm, which is generous on skin and hard on exposure: you are riding the highlights the whole time. And the marine layer runs the schedule. May and June are the cloudiest months on this coast, and the shoreline holds the gray longest, often clearing only late morning or early afternoon. Plan portraits late. Wind off the water will find every lapel mic, so we tape and foam and shoot the vows close.