Zinchuk Studios is just over 3 years old. Over the past 3 years we have grown so much in our creativity, in our technical skills, and in our business sense. When we started out, we just had one (awesome) SD video camera, a tripod and some wireless mics–now we can hardly fit all our equipment in our car (not sure how it’s all gonna fit on an airplane
). Since then, we have grown and changed from a documentary wedding video business to a boutique photography and cinematography studio. It has been such an amazing journey filled with awesome couples and great business buddies along the way!
As with our own growth from children to adults, growing a business comes in fits and starts. It is amazing to go out into the world and find inspiration in the people we work with; it is lonely to sit in a dark office for hours a day. It is exciting to travel to new destinations; it is frustrating when technology breaks down. But with our failures and our successes we have learned to find our eye, our voice, our passion in this business.
I can honestly say that we are perfectionists. Alex works loooong days to edit together each wedding film that we shoot, edit, package and pass into the loving hands of our couples. A wedding is such a precious event that we simply cannot leave the job halfway done. After shooting a wedding day, most couples book us for 10 hours, we weave together 2-3 camera tracks, 2 audio tracks plus sound straight from the DJ’s system or music from a CD. It is simple to just put shots together with music, but to edit real sound, several camera shots, and background music together in a way that is cinematic simply takes time.
As we have transitioned from a documentary-type studio to a cinematic wedding film studio, we have fallen behind. When we earlier edited a 2-hour film in 4-6 months, it now takes 6-9. We have upgraded our computers to the fastest processors and mobile systems so we can work even on the road, yet we push them to the max when we process the 8 hours, on average, of full high-definition video we work with for each event. As we communicate and commiserate with our industry peers, this 6-9 month timeframe is standard. Yet we push our computers to overheating, we push ourselves to overworking every day (we haven’t had a vacation since NYE 2008) and with that, we get sick and we get tired and we lose our passion.
But spring is here and we have decided to get our energy back! We LOVE our couples and we LOVE our work! Our business has experienced a growth spurt and it is not easy. We appreciate the support and patience of our friends and of all our couples. We apologize that we have gotten behind in our edits, but are passionately working to complete all of our 2009 weddings beautifully.
As we look forward to Summer 2010, we are excited! We will work with so many new venues, planners, photographers–not to mention our amazing couples! We will see so many exciting places (Hawaii! Alaska!) and we have so many great ideas! We look forward to sharing all the love–and all our adventures–with you.
Thank you for your support of Zinchuk Studios! Here’s to another great year!!
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