Future Focus Media

Paul is the best to work with! We were lucky enough to find his work on YouTube after my husband's uncle fell ill. With just a month until our wedding, we were downright lucky to be able to book Future Focus Media for our wedding day. Future Focus Media really listens to what you want out of your finished product and brings your wedding day to life. No one even knew that they were filming; they were so unobtrusive and were able to get the best footage that way. That truly is the mark of a great videographer. Paul was extremely courteous and wonderful to work with! When we received our wedding trailer, I cried many happy tears; it brought back so many wonderful emotions from our day. I can't even put into words how much it meant to see it. Future Focus NAILED it! LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! Make sure to book Future Focus Media today!!! You will love their services!!

Paul and his assistant were wonderful. They were very comfortable to hang out with and the result = beautiful photos. They are very proffessional and friendly and provide an exceptional service. When your taking photos make sure to print out a list that you would like and make sure to have someone in charge collecting people and organizing photos.

My husband and I read a lot of post-wedding tips from other couples, and the two biggest regrets most people had were not having enough time to spend with their guests and not having video of their wedding. So we decided to find a way to add a professional videographer to the budget. We spent a lot of time on the details of our wedding and we wrote the ceremony ourselves, so we thought this would be a great way for us to remember all the special things about our day. I realized that the videographer was going to need to work very closely with my photographer, so I asked my photographer (Dan Stewart) for a recommendation. Paul was my photographer's recommendation, and I was able to look at both the video and the photographs of a wedding they did together before making the choice to hire. I considered three different videographers before making my choice, and the thing that impressed me about Paul was his flexibility and willingness to work within my budget. He did an excellent job understanding what I was looking for and modifying his set packages to meet my needs and my budget. That flexibility along with his enthusiasm to work with my photographer, the quality and style of work that he displayed in the video samples I saw, and the fact that he shoots in HD were the reasons I chose to hire Paul. During the wedding, Paul worked very well with my photographer, cooperating to use the limited time we had to get the material. Paul posted our wedding trailer on his blog and facebook page on September 18th, 15 days after our wedding, which I think is pretty fantastic. The trailer itself was AWESOME (See it here!: http://youtu.be/LPmQo1J4HRwand). I think we watched it a hundred times! He did a really interesting thing with our "first look" photos - he made it look like they actually happened after the wedding and that we drove away in my husband's classic truck - which we eventually did but of course it was night time by then and Paul was long gone! So it was neat the way he creatively thought about getting this footage ahead of time - what a guy! We also loved that he picked the music from our first dance to use in the trailer. Due to a death in the family, we have been notified that it might take a little longer than the 3-6 months that Paul usually needs to produce the full video, so at the time I am writing this we have not received the final product. I will update my post when we get it, but I have no doubts that it will be even better than we hoped for, just like the trailer! Thanks Paul!

Our wedding video, much like the bride mentioned above, was delayed in coming to us (6 months after wedding), but I will not comment specifically on that because there was a death in the family and FFM is a family business. Things happen and that is completely understood. However, I must say I was very disappointed in the final product. I have seen several wedding videos that were in the same price range as the one I purchased from FFM and they were far above the one we got for our wedding. I am still very happy that I got this video in the first place - it is a great thing to have our ceremony, first dance(s), etc. captured on video - I just feel that I could have had a close family member capture these things and put them together with the same level of attention to detail that this video had coming from a professional business. It isn't that the video QUALITY wasn't good - that much I couldn't have gotten from a family member with an average video camera - but the flow of the footage and the overall feeling I got from the video just wasn't very satisfying and didn't seem like it came from someone who had done many weddings before. When I saw a preview of our video online (a series of short, 3-8 minute clips) a few weeks before it arrived in the mail, I really hoped that there was more to the video than what I saw. But as it turns out the final product just strung those clips together. Probably the most disappointing part was the lack of early reception footage - I did not pay for the videographer to be there throughout the whole reception, but he was there for about half of it...and there were some missing moments that I thought for sure would be captured. It is a shame that I don't have some of those things on video. Luckily, our photographer was amazing and captured a lot of those moments on camera. All in all, I personally wouldn't recommend this videographer. I know that there have been a lot of great reviews (that is why I booked him in the first place) - maybe our experience was the exception.