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W@W VideoFest aftermath: History

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W@W’s 10th anniversary is a milestone and the first ever W@W VideoFest (plans for a second one is underway) will go down W@W history as the first-ever red carpet event we ever hosted throughout these years.

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(Benz’ gown by Joel Bautista and Kite’s by Niko for Veluz)

And as they say, history is best documented in words and photographs. So here are just some of the pictures taken during the event (we’ll add links to other albums as soon as they become available).

Beginnings

W@W was a direct result of our personal wedding site, 1026 Online!  (read more about 1026 here).  Having done it only a couple of months after our wedding, we consider W@W as our baby.

That’s probably the reason why we used to get so defensive whenever we hear people talk — usually suppliers who got a bad feedback/review from a W@Wie and took it against me & Benz or the community in general.  But through the years, we’ve come to accept that it has become part of handling an online community such as W@W.

About the videographer

Tackling more of the history of W@W in the videofest was Shierdan Pamintuan.

Dan is one videographer who had a roller-coaster affair with W@W & the W@Wies.  He booked his first W@Wie client in 2006 and he was named one of the Top 5 suppliers in the W@Wie Awards later that same year.

But with the deluge of W@Wie bookings, he was later plagued with what we call the videographers’ curse: BACKLOGS! But Dan was never one who took bad feedbacks personally nor did he blame W@W for that unfortunate turn of events.

Today, bulk of Dan’s projects are not just wedding coverages but corporate videos as well.

His background in corporate presentations is immidiately obvious in his videofest submission.  His treatment was straightforward and the voiceover (Randy Balaguer) lent an instructional video feel to his work.  What’s amazing is that the script he used in his presentation were bits & pieces from different newspaper and magazine features about W@W.  It was like a research paper on video complete with bibliography at the end credits.  He translated these information from paper to video then inserted clips of Benz & I for our own personal inputs about W@W’s history.

I particularly liked the lighting in Dan’s video.  He even brought a lighting director when he & his wife Jen went to our house for the interview.  Too bad, the quality of the embedded video below doesn’t give justice to what was seen on the big screen.

And just like most of the videographers I know who are reputed crammers (they get a certain rush doing onsite wedding videos, right?), Dan works best under pressure.  With the necessary revisions and tweaking as showtime drew near, he and Jen were sleepless.  So tired that they just had to take a power nap inside the PowerPlant Cinema 4 a couple of hours prior to screening.

His work on the W@W VideoFest is sort of a comeback movie and proof that when a roller coaster goes down, it goes right back up again just like what he has already proven. A recent W@Wie client even call him ‘the magician.’

Here’s the result of their sleepless nights. 🙂