phoeben teocson cinema

engaged for almost four months, i believe “the bride” and i have accomplished quite a lot now. see, we’ve booked our church-st. james the great(est) and the venue-fernbrook. being a supplier and all, i thought this is gonna be a piece of cake, not! being a supplier makes it even worse! here are the stuff that makes our preparation totally crazy:

1. caterer – since i’ve basically tasted ‘em all, i really thought that they all taste the same. seriously, until we had our first food tasting as a “couple hunting for suppliers” and for the first time i tasted the difference, the difference, may i add, made me say ‘i should’ve eaten breakfast, d@mnit!’ :)

2. photographer – very sensitive stuff. these guys are mostly the people i interact with on the wedding day so it is totally impossible for me to choose. that being said, “the bride” and i decided that she’ gonna be the one to pick for us and i’m gonna be the one to call and haggle for discounts. :) fair enough, i guess.

3. videographer – i don’t want to edit my own wedding and it’s ridiculous to do an onsite video of my own wedding. just the thought of it is making me sarcastically laugh at myself…read my lips, i mean blog, i-want-jason-magbanua!!! i-want-him!!! who else to get but the world’s number one, and since i’m just number two, i don’t want me, i want him…(ok, let’s be honest here, we all know who’s number one and we all know that everybody says their number 2 and since you’re reading my blog, then in this case, until before you leave, i am number two. haha, you know i’m kidding right?) unfortunately, for the time being, we can’t afford him yet…i wonder though, if i can lend him my cameras, my laptop for the onsite, blank dvds for the final video, plus i get him as one of my ninongs, maybe, just maybe, i can get him for free…i mean 50% less. :)

4. hair and make up – not my problem… :)

5. coordinator – …and i remember somebody saying you can’t buy peace of mind…huh?!?

plus, there’s the couturier, flowers, invitations, don’t even get me started with the entourage selection…man, getting married ain’t easy. lucky for us, we still have a year and a half to prepare.

by the way, our new wedsite is up maintained by none other than “the bride” herself. if you have some extra time, check it out, better yet, sign the guestbook! address is bimandgen.weddingannouncer.com.

allow us to showcase our style using various videos from our vault.

here’s a blast from the past – rommel and jen’s “komiks” avp.

our very first 3d photo montage made for dr. red and dr. ann.

a little country music from dave and ebeth’s onsite.

we’re gonna make you fall in love with original pinoy music with ray and oda’s sde in widescreen.

if you like rockin’ ‘n rollin’ same-day-edits (like we do), nothing tops russ and thet’s onsite video…nothing comes even close!

and lastly, watch ben and phoebe’s (two names that made the extraordinary domain name and a lot of teachers stop during roll call) love story, their onsite video, heck, check the whole blog entry!!! again, no favorites, they’re just too special to be left out. :)

we now have a new package made special for couples on the go…you get your onsite video in dvd and all the tapes of the whole event right after the wedding. you don’t even have to wait ’til next morning! here’s our offer:

on-the-go package – P25,000.00
2 widescreen camera set-up
full coverage of the event
3 DVD copies of the onsite video
4-7 hours of raw video in minidv tapes
professional lighting and audio equipment

though limited by just screen grabs from the video project, the part i enjoy most during editing is creating the dvd menus mainly because of two reasons: one, i can express myself as i explore/learn more stuff about the very powerful adobe photoshop program and two, i know that i’m almost done with another wedding movie…here are some of the dvd menus i have in my collection. i spend at least one whole day to create a whole set. just click on the thumbnail to make it a little bigger. didn’t i tell you it’s “personalized?!” :)

st. peter’s parish – march 15, 2008
edsa shangri-la hotel
fernwood gardens

this last playback onsite video is (in my opinion) one of the best i ever had. if you’re particular with the color quality and you’ve got an eye on cinematography, then i bet you’re gonna like this. plus you’ll get to see totally hotninang christine jacob singing with passion…yeah, like it was bulagaan all over again. :)

although the song may never be in my ipod playlist, the video still turned out to be great! see it for yourself.

welcome to our new home! a lot of stuff are still goin’ on and minor updates are yet to be done but what the heck i can’t wait any longer…anyway, a little more patience and this is gonna be up and going by the end of next week. for the meantime, weddingsatwork.com is currently having their avp week and if you’re a huge fan of wedding vids, you wouldn’t want to miss out on it. if you haven’t seen our trailer yet, you may download it here.

again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show. phoebenteocson.com is here, you don’t have to pronounce it right, just spell it right…and one thing i guarantee…it kinda sounds like that coke zero billboard—it’s playback exactly like playback with zero sugar. and you ain’t gonna say— “dang! coke light’s better!” :)