Long Live Super 8

super 8 wedding films & Analog 35mm wedding photography

Devon . Cornwall . UK . World

Long Live Super8 is an art house run by Andy, Shooting film photographs & making super8 movies of weddings and families.

Based in Cornwall & Devon I shoot all over the UK, Europe & sometimes the world.

Manifesto


“TAKE UP ONE IDEA. MAKE THAT ONE IDEA YOUR LIFE – THINK OF IT, DREAM OF IT, LIVE ON THAT IDEA. LET THE BRAIN, MUSCLES, NERVES, EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY, BE FULL OF THAT IDEA, AND JUST LEAVE EVERY OTHER IDEA ALONE. THIS IS THE WAY TO SUCCESS.”

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

I declare here and now i will never be on auto pilot,  always eyes open for the honest and incidental. I will always aspire towards the something that is truly unexpected, different and beautiful - this will always be my goal for your day. 

I will be ambitious every time and take my role more seriously than you will ever imagine. 

I want to find out your stories, your reasons, your importance, i got you. 

I am never photographing or filming an event (its way past that), i am more trying to capture the spirit of the day, the energy. I am trying to write you a love letter in simple images where light has made an impression on film. Just as simple as that. To be honest, to make your documentary genuine, every moment a real one. 

I am for the few, not the many. I am for the few that want something different. I am for the ones that want to remember their wedding day with their minds and through their eyes and hearts but want some flickers of the day in a box or on a wall. The ones that want something so personal it feels like a part of their dreams.  Its never a photoshoot. 

Lets encourage an amazing day of real fun and love and ill take pictures and make a film of that - this is where it is. 

I choose chaos and art and drunken love 

andy 

The shed


Its two things. The shed is my corner of the internet-like “in the back there”. Its not the mainstream , its not for everyone , its a weird little alternative to wedding photography websites and companies  . Perhaps a place for people to come for when they don’t want a wedding photographer, they want a photographer and filmmaker to be with them for their day. To be with them in honesty to photograph an amazing wedding but never turn it into a photoshoot. Its not on page one because my couples want more than Page one of google. 

Also it is a place . It is the place I work the  love letter for you. I want to quietly work on prints for you. I want to create something as a one off for you. Something different to the wedding before you and something different to the wedding that’s after yours. Something for your wall, something for you to keep forever. The Shed is also where i work, and think and talk to you before the wedding. Its where i print and have ideas sometimes. Its where some of my favourite things are and where i can sit quietly and comfortably. Its a feed back loop . A creative place that’s just mine both on the internet and at the bottom of my garden. 

You & me


You ! I am constantly surprised by you. I don’t think you really want a wedding photographer or wedding film which  may have led you here. Often you have a creative background or interest for aesthetics and tangible art . You want something different and beautiful. You often reject the normal and mainstream and seek an alternative. You are alternative , you want alternative things and your wedding day is no exception.  But perhaps alternative is not what you feel is different , its your automatic , it may not even occur to you that’s what you want because its so ingrained and instinctive. You don’t care for normal. 

I am easy, i have two loves in my life, i live with them. I miss them when im away at work even though i look forward to being away and by myself sometimes. I have been to many weddings and worked as a photographer  and film maker all my life in different ways - its my only skills.  I live in devon , i have travelled all my life, i enjoy travelling under my own steam the most. I don’t care too much what other people think. I enjoy a mindset of not accepting the conforms of life. I want people do do whatever they like , not to be told what to do. I don’t care for normal. 

SUPER 8 Films


Oh Super8 how i love you. Per film i have 3mins and 15 seconds to shoot the most wonderful bits of a story and a day. I can make you a film using one or six tapes. Its honest , its simple , its timeless, its imperfection , its perfection , its light on film recored at 18 moments a second. Click click click. 

Super8 combined with a bit of digi >>>>

PHOTOGRAPHY

I can and always want to shoot some film for you , i mean the type of film that makes photographs . Analogue , defi, light on emulsion. There is something that is impossible to replicate with shooting film compared to digital. 

It is a different story to shooting digital weddings. Its slower, its more incidental , its more calculated and thought out. Its imperfection at its most perfect - or it can be that ( sometimes its not ) . What it will be is honest little clicks from the day. The events covered. The art comes through in the simple thought out experiments and observations. It is more selective way of shooting. Its more intense, its less intense , its a wonderful focused day and finding a flow , going with the wedding and picking out the moments. What you can be left with is a lox of printed memories. Shooting photography this way is for people that want to remember with wedding with their minds and be present completely for the day and at the end have some wonderful prints to trigger the day back. This will be an aid to a memory that you lived your wedding day to the max and dint change it to some mediocre photoshoot for the sake of a boring facebook post. 

I can either shoot the whole day in film ( 10-15 rolls ) or i can add some film photography to a super 8 film i make for you. 

I can always add a bit of digital too. If you wanted me to shoot a bit of digital for whatever reason i can for sure. I have been to about 600 weddings and shot digital so i am well versed. There are pros and cons to shooting digital only, or only film , or bits of both - easier to explain and have a chat about than endlessly writing meandering thoughts here. 

To see a snapshot of what shooting weddings look like check out below. 

Moola 

I love to chat, so give me an email , then lets have a chat. Lets be ambitious. Lets make a deal. I want to work hard for you. i want to put together something amazing for you. Money is not the most important thing for me , its the art,  the product , the experience, the people , the day with you, the journey to you is why i still do weddings. 

But, but, I need money though , the same as everyone. I work hard, i always go out of my way to go above and beyond , i have expenses and costs and a family and some cats, a need for travel and all the things that we collect the need to pay for. 

I have been a professional photographer since i was 17, i am now 44. Its all i have ever known. I have made ski films, done press and magazines, work in conflict and disaster environments. I have been to 600 ish weddings in over 20 countries. I am not the most expensive but also i hope my experience and work ethic is valued. 

I have ideas - they are below but also up for new ideas. 

So……………… moola, wonga, benjamins !

Hate this bit. Normally i am at a wedding from makeup teams arriving till end of the bands first ish set - about 12-13 hours ish ( not like the normal 8 hour offered package ) 

I can shoot super 8 , 35mm and if you would like some digital too that of course is possible , easy ! 

For simplicity i have put together 2 packages - all is flexible - these are just ideas to give you a ball park. 

  • Make you a film edited (4-6 minutes).

    Be with you all day ( normally 12 hours at least).

    Travel included inside Devon & Cornwall.

    Shoot 2 rolls of 35mm film photographs.

    3 tapes of Super8.

    Speeches filmed in full in digital as separate file.

    *Add £300 for outside of Devon & Cornwall in UK 

    £2650

  • Shoot and edit 10 rolls of 35mm film ( approximately 300 images ) 

    Be with you all day ( normally 12 hours at least ) 

    Travel included inside devon and cornwall 

    Shoot one roll of suepr8 ( 2-3 minute film ) 

    Speeches filmed in full in digital as separate file.

    *Add £300 for outside of devon and Cornwall in UK 

    £2650

I want to fit into you budget, i will be flexible , i will work hard and make it very much worth it for you . As i said i want to do you deal, I want to make it really worth it for you. I understand its a lot of money but i want to exceed your expectations when you have me involved. I want to give you as much of my time before the wedding as you need. 

andy X 

PS take all payments including Bitcoin, gold and other digital currencies. 

THE FINAL CHAPTER


So i have been shooting weddings for many years now - i think about 14 years ! In that time i have been to about 600 weddings in over 20 countries. 

I have done all sorts ! Amazing and terrible , beautiful and emotional. Many that ill never forget. I want to shoot weddings still but i want to be more ambitious in my last few years of doing them. I want to sweat and be anxious . i want to be responsible more than ever for exceeding expectations and creating something more honest , more beautiful than work i have done in the past. 

I want to try a different more honest , artful way of story telling. I don’t want to be a wedding photographer at your wedding , i want to make your wedding into a box of art that you will be proud to pass down. 

I want to go to amazing weddings with unique people and not get in the way of the day with photos but photograph and film amazing wedding. 

Think less photo shoot , more “ have an amazing wedding and let me make a film of that “ Lets go for it ! Up till now has been a practice , lets make something ace :) 

GET IN TOUCH

I know what I do isn’t for everyone but it’s amazing if we find each other for a very short but important time and I’m allowed to tell the story creatively the way I see it. I’d love you to get in contact to chat & hear about your wedding plans and make something amazing for you.