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Thank you for visiting my video blog. My name is Dave Alegre, the artist behind most of the videos you see here. Seventeen years ago I taped and edited my first project and it has been twelve years since I taped my first official wedding. It has been a challenging and exciting journey for my family and me. This career has allowed me to create countless memories for people around the world. It has allowed me to travel to destinations from Hawaii, the Bahamas and as far as Italy, but most of all it has allowed me to meet my beautiful wife, Grace.

What is the purpose of my video blog? I’m a storyteller at heart, but rather than writing, I like to use images—combining movement and audio. Here I will post current and past projects that showcase you – my family, friends and clients. For my videos that date back as far as the early 90’s, I never had the opportunity to do this because the technology never existed. Today I can, I may even post my own experimental home videos that I learned from – depending on how embarassing they might be! You’ll be able to watch the progression of quality and creativity in my craft. My hope is that this blog will keep you entertained. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, then a video is worth a billion!

If you like what you see and feel when you watch these videos, then hire us. We are available to travel anywhere around the world for your hometown or destination wedding.


Most videos will be posted at their fullest length, if you want to watch short samples, view my trailers on our website link at the top of this blog. Enjoy!


Painting courtesy of Liquidmethod.com

Mei & Ryan’s Pre-Wedding

May 23, 2010 – 2:26 pm

Mei & Ryan’s Pre-Wedding Shoot from Visionary Productions on Vimeo.

*Mei & Ryan was such a great couple to work with!

*Still need to adjust color grade to match.

*I think dialog is more important than visuals. When shooting weddings, creative cinematic shots are very important. But whats being said is more important. Without dialog you can’t really tell or feel what’s going on. Really you can’t tell a story without it. The difference between a photograph and video is sound and movement. For me, paying attention to phrases and thoughts comes first before visuals. You won’t see me without my headsets on a shoot when listening to a wedding. :)

*I montaged the sermon with the pre-coverage to compress time. It allowed me to edit into their vows after the pre-ceremony.

Cameras used Sony FX-1000

Shooters
Sonya Paclob
Maynard Espanol
Dave Alegre

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Janice & Randy’s Short Same Day Edit (High Definition)

April 23, 2010 – 9:47 am

Janice & Randy’s Short Same Day Edit from Visionary Productions on Vimeo.

*If you have problems playing, turn off HD or push play then pause and wait for bar to buffer through.

*This video segment was edited at the end of Janice and Randy Espanol’s photomontage. Completed under pressure and shown at reception.

*I keep telling myself that I won’t do same day edits ever again, but can’t seem to stay away from the WOW factor. It was worth it…. :)

*Note: I used gaffers tape to hold the shoes to the wall and blasted my light behind it! I also placed the flowers as added foreground.

*I also couldn’t find a good location to shoot the dress in the hotel room. Most of the time luggage, people, wedding party, food and bags are in the way during the chaos. So I asked permission from the bride to shoot it outside in the hallway near the elevators. I think next time I will shoot it inside the elevator!

*Usually groomsmen are more relaxed than the bride. So in conjunction to the normal walking around putting on our tux scene. I asked if we can do some sort of chaotic scene. I had groomsmen run to their cars as if they were really late or something.

*Not sure where the video artifacts are coming from. Might have to adjust my video compression next time.

Cameras used Sony NX5U

Shooters
Dave Alegre
Brian Cortez

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Alison & Drake’s Wedding Highlights (Standard Definition)

October 1, 2009 – 9:32 am

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Jhena & Adam’s Same Day Edit Video Presentation During The Reception (HD)

September 28, 2009 – 3:11 pm

Another successful same-day edit! I would say that creating a same-day edit would be the most difficult situation for any wedding videographer. After the wedding, I only had a few hours to edit the wedding footage for Jhena and Adam’s hundreds of waiting guests to see. No room for error or equipment failure in this situation! With proper planning, reliable equipment and experience we pulled it off…again. I want to thank Maynard Espanol (second camera assistant), Sonya Paclob (video/technical assistant) and most of all my wife, Grace, and our kids for putting up with my grouchy ways before a big presentation. I would also like to thank Grace for the most perfect projection set up, too. I wouldn’t have been able to complete this task without all of your help. Last, but not least, I’d like to thank Jhena & Adam for choosing us and for being such video hams for their little video presentation. Congratulations on your new life together and enjoy showing this to your future kids!


Keith Cephus is an international wedding and lifestyle photographer based in the Virginia Beach/DC area. He has been shooting professionally for more than seventeen years and has traveled the world photographing exotic weddings in Hawaii, St. Lucia, Bahamas, Jamaica & Mexico.
Check him out he does extraordinary work! www.keithcephus.com

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  1. Jhena Estepa   -  

    Dave,

    Making the video with you was so much fun! We both loved working with you. Everyone is still talking about how awesome and creative that video was. No one would’ve thought Adam would’ve done something so goofy and cute like this. Your ideas and creativity are so unique and great and we can’t wait to show our kids and maybe put it on youtube haha. You have been so great to work with and I hope we get to see each other again real soon, maybe tape our wedding in 10 years! (renewing our vows haah) Thanks again Dave. You captured every single moment of our special day :)
    Jhena

Priscilla & Ernesto’s Wedding Highlights (HD)

August 12, 2009 – 10:00 pm

Let me ask this question, what is the definition of a video sound bite? So this is what I found when I looked it up. In film and broadcasting, a sound bite is a very short piece of a speech edited from a longer speech or an interview. Sound bites stand out better in the audience’s memory and thus become the “taste” that best represents the entire “meal” of the larger message or conversation. Sound bites are a natural consequence of people placing ever-greater emphasis on summarizing ever-increasing amounts of information in their lives.

So it was my mission to find a few sound bites and ambient sounds for Priscilla & Ernesto’s wedding highlights. It took a good 18 hours to just edit this short piece. But I enjoyed experimenting with the original video dialog. I feel it is more powerful than just hearing the music alone. I still think I need more improvement with this editing style. Hopefully, my videos will keep evolving until I can reach that point of excellence.

This wedding had the perfect couple, lighting and Ernesto had the coolest suit (Barong). As far as Priscilla, she was funny, too.
Enjoy and watch the memories!

Click this to watch it on our Vimeo website if your having a hard time playing this player.

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  1. A.K.   -  

    Good presentation at the Apple Store. Keep up the unique work!!

Maureen & Michael’s Wedding Highlights (SD)

July 31, 2009 – 9:42 am

A bride and groom with class! I get butterflies in my stomach just watching.

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April & Lawrence “Love on the Boardwalk” (HD 16:9)

July 20, 2009 – 12:13 pm

What happens when you have these three ingredients? A simple idea, a fun couple and videographer with a crazy (and sometimes crude) imagination. Surprisingly the answer is a cute video. A few months ago, April and Lawrence emailed me with this simple script for a video presentation they wanted to show at their wedding reception. The video idea was just to have a romantic picnic on the beach while Lawrence proposed. I said, “Is that it?” So I said, “ Let’s take it to another level—let’s add some conflict and a little bit of humor to this idea.” But first I had to ask if their guests would be offended with this type of humor. I just had this gut instinct that Lawrence was a ham and this “think-outside-of-the-box” idea would work well. They knew their guests would enjoy it so they gave me the green light to direct and develop the story. So the video ended up rated G and the rest is history.

Click this to watch it on our Vimeo website if your having a hard time playing this player.

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  1. April & Lawrence   -  

    Our wedding video was totally awesome! We can’t stop watching it over and over again! We laugh every time we watch it, going through all the memories filming it and watching it for the first time on our wedding day. It came out greater than we could have ever anticipated. HD is amazing! Thanks for making our wedding video a video we will never forget as well as all our guests who loved it as well! Thanks again! -The Gonzales’

David & Denise’s Highlights Intro (SD)

June 1, 2009 – 9:23 pm

What a cute couple and they had greatest first dance! This video has made me realize that you don’t have to put scenes in chronological order to show the wedding day. It all makes sense at the end. To see parts of the fun reception go to: visionaryprohd

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Jesssica & Joel’s Wedding Video Intro shot in HD

May 13, 2009 – 12:46 pm

Being perfectionist has its problems, but I’m going to have to be satisfied. This video turned out great and l love the quality of HD footage. But besides the quality of shooting in HD. I believe what you hear is more important than what you see. Picking up good quality sound is more important than anything else in video. It is the the emotions that we feel when we can hear the original thoughts and voices from the video. Something that can’t be replicated by just looking at photos or video images with just music. To me capturing good vocal sound is practically 80% of the success. Can you imagine not hearing your vows? With our recorders and cordless microphones we captured it all with Jessica & Joel’s wedding.


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Jessica & Joel’s Love Story Movie (2008) HD
Old Dominion University

May 13, 2009 – 12:45 pm

Get out the popcorn because this is 23 minutes of craziness. Check it out, I had fun directing it! Jessica and Joel was a blast to work with. They even included their wedding party to act in the movie. It’s a story about how they kind of met in ODU back in the day. Everyone has 15 mins of fame, but they had 23. This video was shown at their wedding reception on a big projection screen.

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  1. Joel and Jessica Gutierrez   -  

    Thanks Dave for everything! The love story far exceeded our expectations and we had a blast filming it. Thanks for all your time and effort. We know you put a lot of time in filming and editing our love story. We have had positive feedback from everyone who has watched the video. We look forward to seeing what you will create with our wedding video footage!