BLΛKLEY
About

One person you will actually meet.

Brodie Blakley
Brodie Blakley
Director, shooter, editor

It started as a hobby — a borrowed camera, weekends spent cutting footage nobody had asked for. The habit outgrew the free time. Within a couple of years the hobby was the job, and the job was full.

Weddings are all I shoot now. It is the only work where you get one attempt at something people will still be watching in fifty years, and that pressure turned out to be the part I liked.

I direct, shoot and cut every film that leaves the studio. The person who framed a moment is the person who decides whether it survives the edit, so nothing gets lost in a handoff and nothing comes back looking like someone else made it. On bigger days I bring in a trusted second shooter; the direction, the camera and the final cut never change hands.

What I believe
One pair of hands
The person who framed it cuts it. Nothing is handed to a stranger.
Story before spec
Nobody has ever cried at a resolution. The camera gets picked last.
Nothing staged twice
If it did not happen that way, it does not go in the film.
Short films
Fourteen minutes you finish, over forty you never revisit.
Most video is made to fill a slot, and it shows.

Better to make one film worth finishing than a library nobody watches twice. That is the whole reason this started, and the reason the list of weddings each year stays short.

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