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Speaker: Hello, welcome to Behind the Chair with me Lauren Garfield and my wonderful guest today, Peter. Peter, you do videography, don't you? I do, so I'm told. So we worked together on a, we actually haven't done an actual wedding together, have we? No, we haven't. I just stalk you on Instagram because you're hilarious. And we did this style shoot, didn't we? That's it, yeah. Yeah, it was a couple of years ago now, wasn't it?
Speaker: Yeah, I think it might have been two and a half years ago now. Flippin' heck, wow. I know. You do a lot of weddings more sort of Essex way, don't you? That sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm based in Essex. Um, I'm actually in Kent a heck of a lot at the moment. So why have I not seen you? I don't know. I have no clue. I'm, um, I'm pretty much, and I'd say 10 out of, I don't know, 10 out of 15 weddings, I'm in Kent.
Speaker: So tell me what it is. Do you do mainly like big weddings? Are you mainly like Saturday, Sunday working? Or do you just do whenever you're booked randomly? Whenever, whenever. I love, you know, I love a midweek wedding. Same. Absolutely love it. They're more relaxed, aren't they? They are. It does throw your week out a bit. You kind of, you feel like you're, you know, if it's a Wednesday wedding, you feel like Thursday is a Sunday. So it does kind of throw you a bit, but I love it. Absolutely love it.
Speaker: Amazing. How did you get into videography? So, I mean, on my website, I've got a link to my old YouTube. Me and my older sister, Abby, we had a... I can see your face. You're like, yup. I've seen it. So, when I was probably about, I don't know, eight, nine years old, I used to take my dad's phone and we used to make little videos.
Speaker: And yeah, I used to love it. Like it was this old Sony that used to have a Sony Ericsson. It was like one of the first camera phones that came out and you could basically edit a little movie. It was black and white on the phone. And I used to do that, put a little bit of music on it. When were you born? 94. Oh my God, I'm older than you. What?
Speaker: No way. So hang on. So I'm trying to think because my first mobile phone was when I was like, well, it was my mom's hand me down. So my mom just gave me hers. The kids don't know they're born today, honestly, with the iPads. I had like a Nokia something. And I think you just like text one person on it or something. And I think that was when I was 13. Yep.
Speaker: Yeah, but there was no video. No, I don't think there was a camera. No, I think the old Nokia, it's like the Nokia 3310 or something like that. Just phone calls, messages and snake. Yes. Snake. I haven't been a gamer. I don't get games. It's not for me. No. No, I love big gaming. Never have time for it though. No, not with all your weddings. How many weddings you got booked so far this year then?
Speaker: this year. I'm coming up, I've capped it this year. I'm not doing as many as I did last year. This year I'm doing maximum 40. But so far I've got about 33 booked in.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm around the same mark as well, but yeah, it's a lot, isn't it? You think at the start of the year, when you look at them, you're like, oh, that's not too bad. And then by the end of the season, you're like, I don't know. Thing is as well for your job, like my job, a lot of I do previews, obviously, of the hair and makeup.
Speaker: But for anyone who's watching who doesn't know how to make up, but I feel like everyone knows because it's on the thing. Anyways, I do like the previews and I speak to them quite a lot before the wedding. And then once the wedding is done, I'm kind of like, see you later. Have fun. Bye. Whereas all of you. Well, more the more the most bit of your work is post edit, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I love I love the day. Oh, my goodness. It's fun. If I could just if I could just literally do the filming and that's it. I'd love that.
Speaker: But yeah, how do you edit? Like, how do you do that? Because is it like not hard to get motivation to sit and edit when you're just in the house?
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, I've now it was harder when we lived in our previous place because we didn't have an office. I've now got an office, it's all kitted out and I've kind of, you know, my wife's let me just do it how I want to do it. So that's perfect. It's my little space. And I've got one TV where I watch I watch suits at the moment. And then I've got that playing. So I'm one of those I'm one of those people that have to have something on at all times.
Speaker: Oh my god, I am the same. I swear that's a creative thing where you have to have that buzz going on to be able to motivate yourself. I don't know what that's all about. Creative or ADHD. I don't know. You tell me. Everyone's got ADHD now, haven't they?
Speaker: If you do this, you've got ADHD. If you do that, and I'm like, is that not just like a normal human like quirk? What's the difference between a normal human quirk and just like have an ADHD? Yeah, I don't know. Not sure. But that's how I work. That's how I need it. And then I've got another screen over here. So I've got two screens. One there, one there. And then I've got my laptop here. And yeah, one's playing TV. One's got my editing page on it. And yeah. How long would you say if you start editing a video today?
Speaker: and it's fun fresh you just say you shot it yesterday how long would you allow for that or just does it depend on the wedding it does depend on the wedding um there's a lot of um sort of little edits you need to do like the speech you've got to synchronize all the audio together um how all that boring stuff yeah it's so tedious oh my god i mean if if that if it was me and i'd
Speaker: i'd just gotten married i wouldn't expect the video straight away do you do that thing where you do a little um yeah so within a week i'll send like a highlight video oh actually i think that's really good and then within like 10 weeks i'll send the full video across um but yeah how how long is usually the snippet video it's like two minutes four or five minutes long it's like a highlight video now yeah
Speaker: You could definitely sit and watch that for 10 weeks later while you're waiting. That's the one that you kind of share around. How long is the full thing? It does depend. It usually ranges from about 40 minutes to an hour. Whoa. So it's like a film? Yeah, it's a proper film. Yeah. Wow. I'm surprised it only takes you six hours to do. That's really impressive. I think it would take me about a week.
Speaker: It's taken a bit of time. I think to begin with, it took me ages, but now you have systems in place. You kind of just go, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. It's all done. Yeah. Well, it's like anything, isn't it? Once you know what you're doing, it's simple, isn't it? But then you have to put in all that hours of practice and actually learn how to do it properly. So tell me about why you enjoy your job. What's your favorite thing about your job?
Speaker: Oh, I just love being creative. I absolutely love it. It's such a nice job. You never get a wedding where it's a horrible day. The weather can be a bit crappy, but everyone's always happy. It's such a nice environment to be in. I think just working with a lot of people, making friends in the industry as well. I think it's lovely.
Speaker: It's such a nice job to have. It's usually filled with people that want to be there and are happy and it's all about love, isn't it? So it's nice, isn't it? In terms of, I'm going to talk about like editing now and from a makeup artist's point of view, I try not to edit my images. I try to just make sure the light is really good. Where do you stand on like editing and what are your personal thoughts as well on that?
Speaker: I, for me personally, I don't really edit my videos. I don't, well I do edit, obviously I edit them, but I don't colour grade, I don't put any filters on. I just, I can't stand it. I think just, you know, that's not what your wedding day was like. Some people love that, you know, there's, there's sort of fads that go in and out.
Speaker: I know quite a few videographers who have like a dark orange theme they have like a they bring out all the like put a weird matte filter that's not i shouldn't say weird but a matte filter over the top of it and i think it doesn't look natural whereas if i'm gonna color grade at all all i'll do is bring out the natural colors yeah definitely i would prefer that i mean especially on something like a wedding when it's about like a real real people like why would you
Speaker: how you edit that. I don't really get that. I think we've got a really similar sense of humour. Do you ever find when you're doing your job, do you ever find that people don't have a great sense of humour and they can't kind of laugh at themselves? 100%. I mean, I've, I'm quite a kind of a think speak before I think kind of person, naturally. So I have to rein it in quite a lot on weddings.
Speaker: and I mean I've tripped up a few times I've walked into bridal prep before and said hello I'm Pete I'm the videographer today oh nice to meet you all oh you must be bridesmaid oh bride right there and you must be the mother and it's turned out to be the sister and I was like oh no horrific yes hang on you mistook the bridesmaid for the mother no the mother her sister her younger sister for the mother
Speaker: I would die. Oh my god, you poor thing. I bet that keeps you up at night. No, no it doesn't. I'm fine now. But you know what, ever since then I've never ever walked into a bridal prep and said, you must be. I've never done it since.
Speaker: That's a really good tip for anyone who wants to get into this job is never assume. Yep. Have you ever had it like morning, you know, when you accidentally put the wrong color on someone or the wrong kind of tint of foundation? I don't know. I'm trying to talk makeup language here, but I can't. No, there was a bride last year though. And I didn't talk about it on Instagram where she'd had an eyebrow wax and she'd done everything correctly. She had her eyebrow wax within the correct timeframe.
Speaker: for the skin to recover. Basically around this whole area, like about a centimetre above our eyebrow, the foundation was just like not sticking at all onto the skin. So I had to like, I was like, and I was trying a few different things and I was like, oh, this doesn't look good.
Speaker: And then I quickly, cause, cause it was like in that, you know, in that moment where you just mind goes blank, like my mind completely blank. So I was like, okay, Google. And I Googled it really quickly. I was like, shit. And then I just basically figured it out from there. And I was like, Oh yes, of course. And then, uh,
Speaker: managed to figure it out, but that was... It must be so stressful. It was fine. Then you start to think of like, right, okay, so that's taken 10 minutes out of the schedule, which doesn't sound a lot, but actually it starts to add up.
Speaker: Yeah, but it was fine. And she was great. And we laugh about it now. And I spoke to her about that before I posted the video online. I asked permission, obviously, and she's like, oh, yeah. And she found it hilarious. She was like, she was like, you would have never known that you were like stressing out in your mind. Like you could paint it so cool. I was like, yeah.
Speaker: not layer but you know there's the dried skin on top you know what I mean like there's a thin layer that and there's always another layer growing underneath the newer layer hadn't really grown back yet so there was no dry skin to stick it to so I basically had to make the skin a little bit drier like for something to stick to have you seen any recent trends on social media that you think what the hell because like for me in my industry I say these like latte makeup
Speaker: I'm good at hiding it.
Speaker: and like all these stupid they're just basically calling like latte makeup a like brown smokey eye latte latte as in like a coffee like yeah a latte yeah
Speaker: Do you get any trends like that in your sort of your industry? Yes, there are quite a lot of trends. There's like the, you know, the whole walk past the camera and do a pose sort of thing. I think you've mentioned that to me before. I can't stand that. There's the, you know what, one thing I don't like is some people love it. I personally don't like it. Marioki.
Speaker: so it's karaoke but throughout your wedding and you basically have everyone sing us the same song throughout the wedding and you make a video to it and it's it's so cringy if it's done right it's done fantastic it looks awesome but
Speaker: So basically, I mean, the classic song is Don't Stop Me Now, you know, Don't Stop Me Now, and then you have the bride and groom start it off going, Don't Stop Me Now, miming it, and then another person sings the next verse, another person sings the next verse, it goes on, and the whole song is sung, and it can be done really well, but honestly, I've only ever seen it done maybe, maybe a handful of times, and each time it's been awful. It's been so bad. I saw something on Instagram,
Speaker: yesterday where it was like oh my fiancé surprised me with a ballerina coming down the aisle and this like ballerina
Speaker: was like dancing down the aisle, just like on our own, just one single ballerina. And I'm not gonna lie, it was like really random. And I love dance, I used to dance. So like, I love all that. But the way it was done was,
Speaker: That's a bit weird. Yeah, that is a bit strange. Really strange. And she was like, she was on point and she had these point she was on, but she was like dancing like outside on the grass. And I was thinking, fair play. Like it must've been really hard to do that, but it was really eggy.
Speaker: yeah that's proper strange that is i wouldn't know what to film because like surely you the whole point of a videographer's like um job is to like film the reactions of people as well yeah there were some interesting faces people were like
Speaker: Hello. This is interesting. Oh my goodness. And what happens if you accidentally catch some sort of horrible, I don't know, some inappropriate chat between the groom and his groom? That's what I was going to say. I've seen those videos where people catch like the groom being like,
Speaker: Check her out. And like, saying it's really inappropriate to the bride. You never caught that. Oh, I have. Yeah. So I've accidentally left. So I always mic up the groom. I never touch a dress, but I'll put a little microphone on the groom's suit. So it picks up the bride and groom. I've accidentally left it on 45 minutes after the ceremony.
Speaker: and I've heard all sorts of things like yeah just proper enough I remember I remember editing listening back to some of it and I was like oh my goodness I've got to stop listening to this this is horrific what like was he talking to the bride it was filth yeah what they were talking about was absolutely disgusting like ritual yeah yeah oh yeah odd really yeah
Speaker: Because they went off. So I always encourage the bride and groom straight away after the ceremony to obviously see their friends. But then before we go off on the couple shoot, just go and have five minutes to yourselves and have a little chat and just have a drink and just chill out. Because obviously your wedding day goes past so quickly. And yeah, they did that and they walked off. And yeah, he let her know how he was feeling. Oh, God.
Speaker: And I remember seeing, so I walked up after about 10 minutes later and was like, right, are you ready? Oh my goodness. You've still got your mic on, haven't you? And he's like, oh, have you been recording the whole time? What did he say? Was he like, please don't listen to that. Did he say that? I don't think he, no, he didn't really mention it. I think he just looked a little bit like, um, he knows what we're going to say and that sort of thing. Yeah. What is, um, one thing that you wish you could say to clients faces, but
Speaker: you kind of can't because it's not appropriate. What like in general to anyone? Just to couples on their Wednesday. Is it like not necessarily like a bad thing but just something that you wish they would understand but you don't feel like it's appropriate to say on their Wednesday?
Speaker: You don't have to look completely flawless on your wedding day. No one will ever understand that but you are getting married because you love each other and I've had quite a few brides where the whole day they've been consumed about how they look good
Speaker: They've been consumed about what everyone else is thinking about them, what everyone else is thinking about their day. You know, maybe something's happened during the wedding preparations where they've maybe missed out a certain thing or something's not there that should have been there. Very small things like little table placements, for instance.
Speaker: And I'd love to be able to say to them, stop stressing. You look amazing. Your groom looks amazing. You guys love each other. Everyone's here because they love you. They want to celebrate with you. No one cares if there's 10 flowers missing off your table. No one cares at all. But yeah, I don't think you can really say that sort of thing on a day. So yeah, I think obviously it's different for some people, but sometimes I think they need to hear that, no? I think that would actually be a good thing to hear.
Speaker: but you've spent all this money, you're stressing out over something that no one's even noticed. Yeah, I mean, if they're stressing, that sort of thing I would say, like with the flowers, but when telling someone they look fantastic and they continuously say, oh, no, I look awful, do you look okay? Do you look okay? Like, I want everyone thinking of my hair, is it falling out? Stop worrying, stop worrying about it. Oh, really? See, that's why it pays to invest in a very good hair make boss, then you won't worry about your hair fall now.
Speaker: I agree, I agree. What do you do? What do you do to make sure it doesn't fall out? It's like anything, right? There's techniques that we use to make sure that our style lasts, and there's a few different things. It's not just one thing, it's making sure that the hair is prepped properly, so you've got to use more products than you think. That's one thing people just totally underestimate, like people who don't know
Speaker: anything about hair the amount of products i probably go through like five different hair products just on one hair not the whole can but wow yeah five different so like prep product styling products
Speaker: and then a finishing product. And that's the key, to be honest. And then like anything that's built, if it's an updo, but even if it's a down hair down, you like build it in layers, like makeup, like you make the sort of scaffold, if you like. And there's like a technique to it, yeah, to make it sort of last, but hair,
Speaker: is hair and this is what I always tell people as well especially if you have your hair down and if you're getting married outside which so many people do nowadays you can't control your hair you just can't and exactly what you said just enjoy yourself because honestly
Speaker: like you're gonna have a great day and the more you enjoy yourself the better the photos and the video is gonna look anyway so you might as well just forget about it yeah i've seen so when i've seen like hairdressers and makeup artists especially with hairdressers when they like continuously
Speaker: Was it back brushing? Back combing? Was that what it was called? I do an updo. I think it's incredible, like watching it, seeing how you kind of, it looks an absolute state when I walk in and it's like, oh my goodness, what the hell are you doing? And then the final product is all like, trim and proper up and looks amazing. Yeah, it's true that saying trust the process. It's like the Hollywood wave always looks mad. You always look like Medusa, you know, Medusa, the snake hair. Yeah, the snakey lady.
Speaker: Before that's brushed out. Yeah, it always looks crazy and there's always like a slight moment when the bride's sort of thinking Is this gonna stay like this? Have you ever had any moments where you've done a hair hairstyle and it's not turned out how you thought it would oh, yeah sometimes for some reason if they've not washed the hair properly or if something's happened that's different because the hair
Speaker: like the way you prep the hair in terms of before I get there it does matter so if they've I mean usually it's fine to be honest because I tell them what to do and if they listen then it's absolutely fine no problem but yeah sometimes it doesn't always work out and then also sometimes you get they change their mind completely on the day so
Speaker: They've had the preview. They decide what they want. And then on the day, they're actually like, you know what? It's like 30 mile per hour winds outside. Let's change my hair so that it doesn't blow away. So that can be a little bit like sometimes because.
Speaker: if they want a certain style and it doesn't necessarily like fit that well with their hair type, it can be a bit of a challenge. But things like makeup, I find makeup, the only real thing you're like competing with is skin. With hair, you're like competing with like loads of different factors with hair, like length, thickness,
Speaker: oiliness, like so many different factors with makeup, it's kind of less unpredictable. But enough about me and my job, your job, tell me about your videographer ick, like something that people do that you just go like, oh God. So when you sent me this question, I had to think about it. But I think my one is when people say, oh, you're not filming this, are you?
Speaker: I hate that. Absolutely hate it. You've peered me to film your wedding day. No, not in that way. Not in that way. So in people's minds, they think I press the button once and then that's it. It's filming. There's no like on and off. So the way most videographers film, they kind of do it in clips.
Speaker: So I'll do it in maybe 10, 15 second clips at a time. But yeah, the amount of people that come up to me and they say, oh, you didn't film that, did you? No, I'm not always filming or the camera is pointing in the direction. And yeah, they're like, oh, are you filming me? No, I'm not filming. What you're doing right now is not interesting. Why would I be filming you? Yeah, that is like a I think that's what is that is that what it means?
Speaker: It seems like, well I'm like applying this to a job but have you heard about the ick where you can get the ick from like your part now or you can get the ick from the opposite sex because they do something like really cringe? Unattractive sort of thing yeah. Yeah but unattractive is sort of like a generalized term isn't it? It's not necessarily like it can be like for me just a general ick is when people eat really loudly. Yep.
Speaker: I'm like, get away from me. Help the room. I once had someone in the makeup chair, in the makeup chair, like in front of me, eating a banana. No. Really like chomping, chomping the lips. What? You mean like this? Honestly, like I was literally like, oh my God.
Speaker: I was like really stressed out because she was eating this banana and like with that mouth open and first of all the banana smells quite strongly which is fine but like if I'm not like in front of your face trying to do your makeup and you're over there that's whatever you know you do you but if you're sat in my makeup chair eating the banana in my face oh no oh
Speaker: That's hilarious. That is one of mine. I can't stand it. And I think that comes back from like... I don't know. Did your parents ever eat loudly? No, not really. No? Okay. Maybe it's not then. My dad did. My dad did. My goodness. But I hate it. Yeah. I also hate whistling. Okay.
Speaker: I know loads of people are like, what's wrong with you? But even if it's like, it's usually sort of a middle -aged happy man walking along this street whistling, but I want to immediately punch them in the face.
Speaker: How about heavy breathing? Heavy breathing. My goodness, that's horrible. Like that. Yeah. So when I mic up the groom, obviously they're nervous, but I hate, I loathe heavy breathing or sniffing down the mic. And they're like, that's horrible. Oh no. Oh no, I've just thought, yeah, of course, because you listen to people.
Speaker: Yeah. Oh, I know I would hate that. Yeah, it is horrible. Or if they like, if you do an Asian wedding, quite a lot of Asian cultures, they think it's appropriate to to the whole horrible. Oh, yeah, that's horrible. Horrible cultural thing, isn't it? Yep. Yeah.
Speaker: That's really interesting. But of course, if you're sat there editing on your camera, on your laptop and computer, the sound, I don't think people would realise how loud that is for you. Yeah. Because it's sound, isn't it? It's not just like a background noise. It's like a, it's only not.
Speaker: All the audio is put through this AI software, which equalizes it all to the same level. And whenever someone does that sort of thing, or coughs really loudly into the mic, it peaks it so high. So you'll see the sound wave go whoop, really high up, and then yes.
Speaker: It's a nightmare, but I just edit those bits out, but yeah, it's just, oh, those things are horrible. That's awful. So I saw recently on Instagram, a videographer was talking about when you go around the room and you're filming, some people think that it's a photo and not a video. So they like pause, they pause for the photo, but you're like, no, no, no, no, no, keep moving. Cause isn't that like the whole point of the video is you see people laughing and chatting and moving and
Speaker: nursing with each other and stuff and having a good time. And then so what do you do? Do you ever get that? I bet you do. You must get that. All right. Well, every single wedding, I get that. It's usually like groups of girls or groups of lads. Yeah. You don't usually get it with couples because they usually are dancing away together with groups of girls. They'll all like huddle into the middle and go, take a picture of us. And then all do like a little hand. And guys, they always do like the whole sort of.
Speaker: You know, jumping on each other. Take a picture. Yeah, take a picture of us. Don't you find your lads are the worst? Like lads are like snoggy to them more than the girls. Like lads be like... lads get really tactile with each other, don't they? Yeah, it becomes almost like affectionate at a wedding. They kind of end up... Yeah, the amount of footage I have of like men groping each other at a wedding in the evening is unreal.
Speaker: It's true, isn't it? Like, honestly, I do think that men are like closeted, not in that way. I just mean closeted like tactile people, but they are too scared to be feminine. And then when they've had a drink, the feminine, he comes out and it's really nice. And I'm like, nobody even cares. Like you could be like that anyway and like go, you know. I find army weddings are the worst army weddings. Oh yeah. They're wild.
Speaker: Yeah, because they're also regimented in the army. And then when they have a few drinks, like usually, obviously they're sergeants there, usually. And he'll kind of let them know, you know, yes, go for it, lad. This is the night off. And they go mental. And yeah, it's like, yeah, like grabbing nans, grabbing aunties, dancing is mental.
Speaker: Oh, I love that. So I was going to ask you, what one piece of advice would you give to a couple on their wedding day? But I kind of feel like you've already answered that because you said about just enjoying the day and letting going, not thinking about how you look. Yeah, that is the main thing. Don't really worry too much. You know, obviously you've spent, in some cases, years planning your wedding. But I mean, another thing I kind of would think is if you've got a videographer and a photographer,
Speaker: Don't worry about missing things. Don't worry about being everywhere, seeing everyone. Just enjoy yourself. Just enjoy the time. Enjoy the location you're at. Enjoy the drinks. And yeah, let yourself go. Just really, really have a nice time. Let yourself go. Yeah, I think so. Let yourself go.
Speaker: Well, that's after marriage. So you let yourself go then. No, one other thing I thought of actually. So don't feel like you have to be there all night because you've been up for hours, you know, brides especially, they've been up in some case, if your ceremony is at what, say 12 o 'clock,
Speaker: um which is a little bit early for a ceremony usually it's about two ish but you've probably been up if you've got maybe five or six pridesmaids since five am yeah so and you've probably not slept much the night before don't think that you have to be there till the last minute and you know saying goodbye to everyone if you want to leave at eight you know eight ten at one not eight o 'clock if you want to leave at ten o 'clock leave at ten o 'clock literally the band starts so you're up i'm off
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, don't don't stick around if you don't want to go and have a chill, you know, and if you want to go and have a nap, go and have a nap. It's your day. Yeah, exactly. Go and consummate that marriage. Make sure I've not miked up the groom. Oh, God. Oh, no, that's not worth thinking about.
Speaker: And what would be your desert island item? What is one thing on a wedding day you could not live without apart from the camera? So I've thought about this question and last year I discovered a new brand of Paris underwear.
Speaker: So I've thought about this, and I actually think this is my item. So for any people out there, I mean, if you're, I don't know, it's definitely for blokes, because the way they're designed. But if you are looking for a pair of underwear, which will make you feel so comfortable throughout the whole day, they are called Saks Pants, S -A -double -X. My goodness, can I look them up? They are amazing. And that would be my... Well, look them up, shall I?
Speaker: You can look them up if you want to. He is. I think mainly my audience is women. Of course. They're all going to be buying these for their partners now. Exactly that. You should have a share in them. Yep, they are great. So you have a shit ton of followers. What's that all about? What's the secret? And can I have some please?
Speaker: So my, my following went mental when I went to America. So I did a few weddings out in America. Oh, because you did. Um, was that my drilling? I think it was.
Speaker: Yeah, because wasn't that last JL year before you went to America and you did those weddings out there? Yeah, so I got a book to go to California for three weddings. And we made a trip of it. So we went out for a holiday as well, went to Vegas and had a fantastic time. But while I was there, I just vlogged. What was it? Vlogged? I vlogged the whole time. I watched all of it pretty much.
Speaker: yeah it was amazing and i noticed that it my follower my follower count kind of went from i think i went out there about i don't know 1800 so 1800 um and i came back with almost 9000 so it went crazy that's quite a big jump isn't it for two what two weeks three weeks that's a big jump isn't it it was a month about a month i was out there for so the whole of february
Speaker: That's really interesting. I think maybe what it is, I think people like to follow like journeys, don't they? We like to follow something that they know is going to be like a consistent thing. Yeah. I don't know what it, so the only thing I can think of really, and I've noticed since throughout the whole of last year as well, it may not have been 8 ,000. I think it was maybe seven or something, 7 ,000. But throughout last year when I came back, I decided to continue it and I got comfortable in front of the camera, sort of recording myself.
Speaker: chatting away, doing silly skits, just basically vlogging the whole wedding videographer sort of lifestyle. And yeah, I think it's down to
Speaker: What's the word? Um, you know, when you're just seen a lot on Instagram, I think the, whatever the algorithm is, it liked it and it kind of put me up. So I noticed that my, the views on each reel and each story that I was putting out was getting double, triple what it used to. And that's, you know, even people that weren't even following me, I noticed there was a lot of new brides, not new, newly engaged people from everywhere, just watching my stories.
Speaker: And I found that really like, I was like, oh, this is weird. But it must just be that on the explore page on Instagram, I was being put on there, basically. Yeah, I don't see a lot of videographers or photographers really doing a lot of in the UK. Sorry, in the UK. I don't see them doing a lot on social media, really. Like not not in the way that you do.
Speaker: You know what I mean? It's hard to, though. It's so busy. Your life's busy enough. Oh, yeah. It's another whole job. Oh, my God. Yeah, literally. And so these next questions, I sort of try and keep it in the theme in every podcast and ask these at the end to everybody. OK, so yes, these questions don't really I don't think apply to you because you don't wear makeup. OK, you don't know that. I don't wear makeup.
Speaker: Well, I'm going to kind of like slightly flip it a little bit. Similar questions, but I'm going to like add a bit to it. So what do you think is the most popular lipstick or lip gloss? As in like, what do I think the most popular brand is or just in general lipstick or lip gloss?
Speaker: Let's say brides. Let's say, what do you think with brides is the most popular lipstick or lip gloss? I would say lipstick. I would guess lipstick. Ding, ding, ding. I would say from my personal experience, yes, lipstick. Yeah. Okay. What's the difference? So lipstick is just like a colour. It's usually just a colour and you get it in either sheen or matte or different sort of finishes. And then a lip gloss is just a gloss.
Speaker: Oh, okay. It's kind of in the title, isn't it? Yeah. You can kind of get colours of lip gloss, different colours, but it's never like a full coverage and it's not as dense of a colour and it doesn't last as long as a lipstick. But it just adds shine, a lot of shine.
Speaker: So lipstick doesn't really add shine. It can be quite sort of dewy looking but not necessarily as shiny as a gloss. How long do you think a bride generally takes in the makeup chair? 45 minutes to an hour. Well done. It's like you have experience. I know. And then next question, how often do you wash your makeup brushes?
Speaker: Oh, regularly, regularly. How often do you think your missus washes? I don't know if you're married. Are you married? Yeah. How often do you think she washes her makeup brushes? I don't think so. Do you have any idea? I don't know. That is a very honest answer because most people don't wash their makeup brushes and it's disgusting.
Speaker: sorry wash your makeup brushes hon oh my god if you watched your wife's makeup brushes for her she would be like wow no but if you did it properly no i know she wouldn't no she would not she'd be like where the hell have you put my makeup brushes
Speaker: They're in the washing machine. What are you talking about? So in terms, this is just like a bit of a fun one. Natural babe or full glam goddess makeup. So do you prefer the natural makeup? Yeah. I mean, I have to say there's not many men that I've met that say, you know what, more makeup the better. Yeah, no.
Speaker: And also, men don't have a clue about how much makeup is actually natural makeup. They think, oh, it's so natural. And I'm like... So I didn't even know that false eyelashes existed until I got married. That is how naive I was in the world of makeup. So I got married when I was 21. No, 22. 22. I was 22 and I got married.
Speaker: So it's eight years this year. And I remember we came back home from our wedding and Julia, I remember walking into the bathroom and Julia was like just taking something off her eyes. I was like, what the heck are you doing? And she took her eyelashes off. I was like, what the?
Speaker: I know, shocked me completely. I was like, what on earth is that? But yeah, actually, you know what? From a bloke's viewpoint of things, I don't think a woman really needs makeup unless she wants mascara on or eyelashes. I think if you have false eyelashes, that's all you need. Okay, we're deleting this podcast immediately.
Speaker: Well, I know what I'm going to say. I highly disagree with that. OK. Oh, yeah, because it's your job, isn't it? Nobody needs makeup just like nobody needs videography. So true. But it's great to have. It's great to have. And it's a great addition and it's fun and it makes you feel more confident and
Speaker: Obviously on your wedding day it's different but I think in general proper shot yourself in the foot there
Speaker: Perfect case of I just speak before I think. Exactly that. Love that. Brilliant. Well, thank you so much, Peter. It's been fab as always to chat. Thank you for having me on. And let's set a goal for 2024. This is my first podcast of the year. So let's like start it off with what is your 2024 wedding goal?
Speaker: wedding business. So for 2024, I want to get better on the drone. I want to do more abroad weddings, possibly are happening already. I want to control it. That's what I want to do. I don't want to have to do too much. I want to sort of get it to a place where it's comfortable and manageable. Can you sum that up with one word? Sum it up with one word. I want to, you know, no clue, absolutely no clue.
Speaker: So the sum up is no clue. I have no clue. No clue. Not an idea. Not an idea. As it comes along, I want to progress. That's what I want to do. Progress. Progress. That's the word. Yeah. How about you? What's your goal? My goal is to think of a goal because I've actually done a
Speaker: 2024. Like sort of a brainstorm. I don't think you're allowed to say that word anymore are you? Oh well. Why not? What's wrong with that one? I don't know. But yeah, but I haven't actually thought of an overarching
Speaker: goal i've just got like quite a few things i want to do and then i'm just gonna go with that we actually need to to do a wedding as well because we've only ever done a style trip yeah i mean i don't know how that's gonna happen but i'm sure we'll manifest it of course of course well i'm up in kent a lot now so i'll uh i'll be shouting your name about oh bless you thanks so i'm gonna stop recording so bye
