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We chose a bit of a different route when producing Alia & Kenan’s Wedding Trailer. If you have followed our previous trailers, you’d recognized that we often include excerpts of various speeches to add substance to the story being told. Although there were many great speeches at Alia and Kenan’s wedding (including the story behind how Kenan came up with the classic phrase “Hustle-ation”… gotta love it), we opted to work mostly with the visuals captured to give you a sense of their special day.

When meeting with Alia & Kenan last summer, we knew that there was a lot of time and effort put in to the details of their reception which was being held at the Ottawa Art Gallery. When discussing these details with Alia a couple of weeks prior to the wedding, we knew that incorporating some of what went on behind the scenes would have been appropriate. So we were fortunate enough to be allowed behind closed doors to capture snippets of what preparations Tulips and Maple had going on.

To give you a bit of background to their story, Alia and Kenan have spent quite a bit of time apart as their careers took them to different countries all around the world. They were actually looking forward to spending their first summer together this year since they met. So needless to say there was definitely a build up of excitement we wanted to come out in this piece. Now I’d have to say that 99% of the music selections you hear from our productions are chosen by us. We always take into account what musical genres each couple enjoy and allow them to influence the films we are working on. However in this case, we actually chose one of the songs that Alia had mentioned to us. It’s words, the beat and the overall feel seem to just fit appropriately, building on the story of two individuals coming together for their marriage. The last shot of this trailer was inspired by Alia and Kenan’s coming together and no longer having to live apart from one another.