Barrie Dance Studio

Having not only a Wedding Video but a Hollywood style Wedding Video is a once in a lifetime event. Just simply taking photographs is not really enough for such a special day. To better preserve these memories, to share them with you friends, family, and kids and to just simply relive the moments, Wedding Videography is the best choice. Wedding Video productions capture your Wedding Ceremony in all its beauty. It captures the Reception and some of those wonderful tender moments of affection and sentiment between the bride and the groom and their family members in a completely low profile manner for your posterity for years to come. Video records all of this in so much detail, your Wedding day could never be forgotten for generations to come. It helps remember the wedding vows, the exchange of rings, the laughter, the crying, the vows, the dancing, and even the pastors beautiful words at the ceremony.

Now that you know what Wedding Videography is all about and what it can do for you at your Wedding, there is also some suggestions to and ideas of what are my two favorite typical types of Brides.

First, the Classical Bride. These Brides really like the sleeved dressed. Modesty is usually their favorite attire, along with black tuxes for the groom and simple white lilies for the flowers, unless they are really feeling crazy.. then a bushel of beautiful romantic red roses. A simple sparkly white three-tier cake is usually the cake of choice being the most most radiant in the arms of tradition. As such, you’ll want a formal cinematic video, overflowing with classic scene. Example, you walking down the aisle with your Father of significant family member on your arms, giving away of the Bride, the vow exchange at the Wedding Ceremony. Then on to the Reception with your first dance and all of the other timeless moments you’ll cherish like the cake cutting and bouquet and garter toss. A Videographer who excels in the cinematic and directed technique and providing traditional coverage is the best match for you. That type of Wedding Videographer will make sure you don’t miss out on any “must-have” shots, and that your entire Wedding love story is told like a beautiful love story on the TV screen. An expert Videographer who is trained in the cinematic style will do their best to direct or mini-scenes with the Wedding party group without being in their face or like an obnoxious movie director. Please make sure to discuss with your Wedding Videographer before the Wedding that is you would prefer for these scenes to be more funny and entertaining, or if you’d prefer a more elegant take on the whole event. Also make sure when choosing a Wedding Videographer that you watch their demos on their website and make sure you like them.

Now what do we do with you Rebel Brides? First I must say, Rebels are usually my favorite. Not always, sometimes I like my Classical Brides because the Videos just turn out beautiful. However, Rebels are usually a lot more fun, always wanting to be artistic. Never one to follow rules, your style is a direct reflection of your untraditional lifestyle. So saying that, when it comes to Wedding Videography, the same thinking applies. Us Videographers see you Rebel Brides opting for that “edgier” Videography style, where every funky and unique thing you do on your special day will be captured candidly, truthfully, and to say the least, very artfully. Your Wedding Videographer must know that they are dealing with Rebel Bride so they know to let their creative juices flow. So be a doll, and let them know! Videographers love to hear you are a “Rebel” bride. Enjoy preparing for your Wedding!

Having not only a Wedding Video but a Hollywood style Wedding Video is a once in a lifetime event. Just simply taking photographs is not really enough for such a special day. To better preserve these memories, to share them with you friends, family, and kids and to just simply relive the moments, Wedding Videography is the best choice. Wedding Video productions capture your Wedding Ceremony in all its beauty. It captures the Reception and some of those wonderful tender moments of affection and sentiment between the bride and the groom and their family members in a completely low profile manner for your posterity for years to come. Video records all of this in so much detail, your Wedding day could never be forgotten for generations to come. It helps remember the wedding vows, the exchange of rings, the laughter, the crying, the vows, the dancing, and even the pastors beautiful words at the ceremony.

Now that you know what Wedding Videography is all about and what it can do for you at your Wedding, there is also some suggestions to and ideas of what are my two favorite typical types of Brides.

First, the Classical Bride. These Brides really like the sleeved dressed. Modesty is usually their favorite attire, along with black tuxes for the groom and simple white lilies for the flowers, unless they are really feeling crazy.. then a bushel of beautiful romantic red roses. A simple sparkly white three-tier cake is usually the cake of choice being the most most radiant in the arms of tradition. As such, you’ll want a formal cinematic video, overflowing with classic scene. Example, you walking down the aisle with your Father of significant family member on your arms, giving away of the Bride, the vow exchange at the Wedding Ceremony. Then on to the Reception with your first dance and all of the other timeless moments you’ll cherish like the cake cutting and bouquet and garter toss. A Videographer who excels in the cinematic and directed technique and providing traditional coverage is the best match for you. That type of Wedding Videographer will make sure you don’t miss out on any “must-have” shots, and that your entire Wedding love story is told like a beautiful love story on the TV screen. An expert Videographer who is trained in the cinematic style will do their best to direct or mini-scenes with the Wedding party group without being in their face or like an obnoxious movie director. Please make sure to discuss with your Wedding Videographer before the Wedding that is you would prefer for these scenes to be more funny and entertaining, or if you’d prefer a more elegant take on the whole event. Also make sure when choosing a Wedding Videographer that you watch their demos on their website and make sure you like them.

Now what do we do with you Rebel Brides? First I must say, Rebels are usually my favorite. Not always, sometimes I like my Classical Brides because the Videos just turn out beautiful. However, Rebels are usually a lot more fun, always wanting to be artistic. Never one to follow rules, your style is a direct reflection of your untraditional lifestyle. So saying that, when it comes to Wedding Videography, the same thinking applies. Us Videographers see you Rebel Brides opting for that “edgier” Videography style, where every funky and unique thing you do on your special day will be captured candidly, truthfully, and to say the least, very artfully. Your Wedding Videographer must know that they are dealing with Rebel Bride so they know to let their creative juices flow. So be a doll, and let them know! Videographers love to hear you are a “Rebel” bride. Enjoy preparing for your Wedding!

Who doesn’t like a good mystery? Mystery based movies have always been, and always will be,loved by movie fans. A good Hollywood mystery with a solid story line, a healthy dose of suspense, and an often violent portrayal of crime is almost guaranteed to provide the viewer with a heaping portion of thrills and chills.

When it comes to mystery and suspense classics, Director Alfred Hitchcock is legendary. His contributions to this movie genre are virtually unequaled in the history of motion pictures. One of Hitchcock’s classic thrillers is Rear Window, released in 1954. This film successfully combines a murder mystery with an examination of personal ethics. James Stewart plays magazine photographer L.B. Jefferies who sits confined to his wheelchair as a result of a broken leg. 

To help pass the time, Jefferies watches his neighbors from the rear window of his third-floor apartment. Directly across from his apartment live salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) and his bedridden wife. The two quarrel often. It isn’t long before Jefferies penchant for voyeurism has him convinced that Lars has murdered and dismembered his wife. Rear Window is a mystery and suspense classic, and is widely considered as one of Hitchcock’s very best.

Another Hitchcock film that displays his ability to entertain with mystery is North by Northwest. Released in 1959, the movie employs the classic mystery suspense concept of mistaken identity to involve an innocent man in espionage and murder. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken to be a government agent and seized by two unknown men. After interrogating Thornhill, who his captors believe to be a government agent named Kaplan, they unsuccessfully attempt to murder him.

When no one will believe his story, Thornhill sets out to find the real Kaplan only to end up implicated in murder. Innocent man Roger Thornhill is now being pursued cross country by both his own government, and the representatives of an unknown organization. The film climaxes with a dramatic cornfield chase (the famous crop dusting scene), and a breathtaking battle on Mount Rushmore.

The film noir crime drama Murder, My Sweet directed by Edward Dmytryk, and based on the Raymond Chandler novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was released in 1944. In the film, Detective Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is hired by Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki), just out of prison after serving seven years, to locate his former girlfriend Velma (Claire Trevor). This job is easier said than done, as lead after lead turns into lies, bribery, theft, and the dangerous noir inevitable – the femme fatale. This film gave actor Dick Powell an opportunity to change his screen image. Primarily known as a song and dance star, Powell’s performance as the hardboiled detective was a successful one.

Also from the film noir genre is 1953′s tense and well-crafted story The Hitch-Hiker, directed by film-noir actress-turned-director Ida Lupino. This movie was based, in part, on a true story. While on a fishing trip, a car driven by Roy Collins (Edmond O’Brien) accompanied by his friend Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy) stop to pick up a hitch-hiker. This is not just any hitch-hiker. Emmett Myers (William Talman), who appears to be a stranded motorist, is in fact, a murdering psychopath. Myers orders the men to take him to Baja, California. Along the way, he sadistically taunts the men letting them know just what he has in store for them at the end of the journey. 

Enjoy the powerful, creepy, and sleazy performance of actor William Talman. This motion pictures tag-line says it all – “When was the last time you invited death into your car?”

Film noir provides another mystery and suspense classic with the film This Gun for Hire, based on author Graham Greene’s novel ‘A Gun for Sale’. The film stars Alan Ladd as Raven, a hit man who has been double-crossed by nightclub owner Williard Gates (Laird Cregar). As the club owner will soon find out, double-crossing a hit man is not a very good idea.

While on a train taking him to Gates, Raven meets nightclub magician and singer Ellen Graham (Veronica Lake) who is working with the government to use Gates as a way of finding out who is manufacturing poison gas for the Japanese. Together they form an uneasy alliance against a common enemy. This film is credited with making Alan Ladd a star.

The 1940s and 1950s are considered ‘the golden era’ for film noir movies. These crime-based movies were able to provide many of the mystery and suspense classics that audiences loved to watch.

At the end of the decade, and especially in late 2008 and 2009, artists like LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, T-Pain, and many others working inside and outside of popular music, brought dance back again. If you listen to any outer-rim dance music you’ll hear the huge influence that disco has had on much of the new music being made. Some say that after the towers fell, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economic collapse, people just wanted to let loose with abandon—they wanted to escape with dance…as corny as that sounds. Here is a list of the best dance songs of 2009.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”

“Off with your head / Dance ‘till your head.” If there ever was a macabre dance call to arms, I think that would be it. This darkly danceable single from Yeah Yeah Yeahs largely moves away from their punk rock roots into a more synth-heavy, dance-rock territory with a unbelievably catchy melody underneath singer Karen O’s dance instructions and excoriations.

Joker & Ginz – “Purple City”

For many, 2009 was seen as the year the British dance/electronic/techno subgenre of dubstep really crossed over into the United States, and much of that thanks is due to a young man named Joker and his hugely popular single releases. “Purple City” is one of those tracks—a giant, snarling, bass heavy track that sounds like it was made in a future world where music is created around train horn samples, looping, anthropomorphic bass lines that crunch, squeal and create melodies your brain never knew it could process. It is loud, but it is also melodic, with a uniquely familiar underpinning that will keep you returning again and again to break down it’s futuristic boom.

Annie – “Songs Remind Me of You”

In 2004, Annie released what is now seen as one of the decade’s best and most influential pop/dance records in “Anniemal.” The electropop stylings of Annie and the top-rate production by Richard X and other big name Norwegian producers created a dance pop album that people usually not fans of the genre could admit to enjoying. “Songs Remind Me of You” is the best single off her long-awaited follow up and has the same, classic electro feel of her best singles, with Richard X again bringing his A-game with this dance anthem for everyone who gets that giddy feeling when they hear that certain song.

If you are as old as me (hanging onto your thirties by the skin of your teeth) you may remember a movie called; ‘White Men Can’t Jump’.   If you are a living it up in your 20’s or early 30’s and don’t know the movie, don’t rush out and rent it (not worth it) and basically it can be summed up as politically incorrectness in reverse – whereby white man has to prove that he can play basketball as well as black man (or something like that…I have to admit it did not hold my interest).

So my point?  Stick with me…I will get there!

Until my very early 20’s I was an amateur dancer.  I was trained as a Classical Dancer and then later I also had a stint as a belly dancer, whilst living in the NT.  During this time I danced with people from all over the world, including many talented Indigenous women.  This experience was the closest I ever got to what I call, ‘soulful’ dancing; dancing that spoke to my soul.  During my Ballet years however, there was a bit of a joke out there in the dance world that not only could white man/woman not jump, but they could not dance either.  Thankfully, ‘So you think you can Dance’ has come along to highlight the skill, dedication, creativity and stamina required in all forms of dance, but there is something so organic and sexy about street dance and the people who do it – people who have never seen the inside of dance studio and when I was dancing, this was the type of dancing I wanted to be doing.

This theme has also been explored in film.  Next time you are at your favourite DVD Library head to the weekly section and you will find several titles that feature the upper class ballet dancer who falls in love with the dark gorgeous guy from the ghetto.

So what has this to do with your Wedding?  Well as you may already know, not only does the black man/woman know how to shake his/her thing on the dance floor he and she also knows how to croon a tune.   Ok I hear disapproval from some of you and I know you can show me many a white man/woman who does it just as well, but there can be no denying that the black man/woman has soul….something that this white girl for one, admires in spades.

Dance and Music go hand in hand, so when I saw this list of the Top Slow Jams of All Time, published by ‘Essence Magazine’, I knew I had to share it with you.  Essence is a lifestyle magazine for the African-American Woman, but really we can all appreciate this music and your wedding is the perfect place to feature some soulful, sexy tunes by talented black artists, who may just have you finding your own mojo on the dance floor.  Music is a place where you can lose yourself to your emotions and dance is a way of expressing this (well within reason!).

You will know many of these tunes and have probably heard them played at Weddings before, so look through the list and decide if there is one that speaks to you, for your first dance.   ‘Adore’ by Prince is my personal pick.  The list makes a fantastic wedding playlist and if you are looking for something special to share with your guests, why not download (legally please every artist deserves ‘credit’ for their work) some of the tunes onto CD’s to give to them as a thankyou gift. 

Slow Jam by Midnight Starr Always and Forever by Heatwave Me and Mrs. Jones by Billy Paul Stairway to Heaven by O’Jays For the Lover In You by Shalamar Cruisin’ by Smokey Robinson Ribbon in the Sky by Stevie Wonder House Is Not a Home by Luther Vandross Sweet Thang by Chaka Khan Angel by Angela Winbush Adore by Prince You Give Good Love by Whitney Houston Sweet Love by Anita Baker Hello by Lionel Richie If You Only Knew by Patti LaBelle Make It Last Forever by Keith Sweat Forever My Lady by Jodeci Sweet Lady by Tyrese You Put a Move on My Heart by Tamia You by Jesse Powell For You by Kenny Lattimore Fortunate by Maxwell Seven Days by Mary J. Blige Ready For Love by India.Arie How Does It Feel? by D’Angelo