Prepared for Jemma & Leigh
Jemma & Leigh
Saturday 18 March 2028·Tanglewood Estate, Mornington Peninsula
You told us what stood out was the balance of photo and film together. That isn’t a line we borrowed for this page — it is how the studio is built. One brief, one crew, two crafts planned around each other instead of competing for the same time on your day.
Understand what matters
Before anything else, here is what we heard
You wrote a clear brief. Rather than send back a generic price list, we have answered it point by point, in the order you raised it. Nothing below is guesswork about what you want.
Photography and film, working as one
Not two vendors sharing a room. One brief, one plan, one point of contact.
9.5 hours, preparation through to the exit
Every option here is built on 9.5 hours — not eight, with an upsell waiting at the end of the night.
A film longer than a highlight
Full ceremony. Full speeches. Every option includes a long edit — what changes is how deep it goes.
One venue, all day
Tanglewood changes what 9.5 hours can hold. Section four shows exactly how.
Travel from Sydney, costed openly
Itemised, not buried. On two of the three options we absorb it entirely.
Numbers first, then a call
You asked for real figures before committing to a conversation. That is fair, so here they are.
Understand what matters. Protect what matters. Preserve what matters.
One thing worth challenging
You offered to fake the morning. You don’t need to.
“We can do mock groom getting ready shots to shorten the timeline.”
That is a sensible offer, and most couples make it for the right reason: covering two preparations normally means an hour in the car between two houses. That hour is the cost — not the getting ready itself.
At Tanglewood there is no drive. Accommodation is on the estate, the chapel is on the estate, the reception is on the estate. The two preparations sit a few minutes’ walk apart, which means one crew moves between them through the morning and catches both properly.
We have shot mornings this way many times. On a single site it is a rhythm, not a scramble — and it is why nothing here needs to be staged, re-run for the camera, or traded against your 9.5 hours.
What that actually buys you
If you would rather have both preparations covered simultaneously rather than in rotation — two rooms, two crews, one clock — that is something we can quote for you. And if you would still prefer to keep the morning simple, mock preparation is covered either way and we will shoot it well.
Your day · mapped
Your timeline, with our coverage on top of it
Thank you for sending your running order through — it changes this from a generic plan into something specific. Below is your own timeline, with our coverage laid over it.
Three films, three different days
No two weddings should look the same.
You said our work matched your style — and the thing we would most want you to see is that it isn’t one style. These are three Teaser Films from three very different days. The tone of each came from the wedding, not from a preset applied on the way home. Ninety seconds each, and worth watching all three before you read another word.
Cinematic & Emotional
Isabelle & Lachlan
VENUE_ONE
Slower, quieter, weighted toward the moments between things. This is how we shoot a day where the ceremony carries most of the feeling.
Balanced & Story-Driven
Tim & Anya
VENUE_TWO
Follows the day’s own order and lets it speak for itself. The most common of the three, and the closest to how most couples actually remember their wedding.
Fun & Energetic
Shayne & Courtney
VENUE_THREE
Faster, louder, far more of the floor. Right for a night that runs long — which, with a reception from 6.30pm to an 11.30pm exit, yours may well be.
Which of these your wedding turns out to be is not our decision, and it is not one you have to make now. It is simply one of the things we would work out together before we shoot a frame.
Your question about the films
Between your two suggestions, you named all four.
You offered teaser and episode, or highlight and documentary — and said what you really wanted was something longer than a highlight. Those are not two competing packages. They are four separate films, each built for a different job, and most couples take a combination so that different parts of the day are preserved in different ways.
01
Teaser Film
The Excitement
A short, emotionally driven snapshot of the atmosphere, energy and anticipation of your day. Best for sharing shortly after the wedding.
02
Highlight Film
The Emotion
A cinematic retelling of your day, crafted with music, movement, natural audio and emotional pacing. Best for reliving the essence of the day.
03
Episode‑Length Film
The Experience
A deeper, more immersive film preserving more interaction, atmosphere, dialogue and natural flow. Best for a more complete cinematic story.
04
Documentary Film
The Memories in Full
Longer-form coverage preserving full ceremonies, speeches, live audio and important moments as they unfolded. Best for preserving the day in its fullest form.
The two long films, side by side.
This is the part worth reading closely, because the difference is not length — it is how each one treats the day it covers. The Episode shapes the whole day, portraits included, into something built to be rewatched. The Documentary keeps the formal parts of the night at their real length.
Both give you the ceremony and the speeches complete — the part you asked for specifically, and both cover your morning. The one thing worth knowing before you decide: the Standard Documentary does not include the photo session, so your portraits across the estate would live in the Teaser and Highlight rather than the long film. The Episode carries them, and the Extended Documentary adds them back. The Episode itself also comes in two viewing experiences, an Episode Long Edit and an Episode Love Story — both at cinemotive.com.au/cinematography/episodelovestory, and something we settle together in the Planning Session.
One reaches further across the day. The other reaches deeper into part of it. The only real mistake would be settling for something too short to do either.
The numbers, as you asked
Two ways to keep the same day.
Rather than invent a ladder, we have priced the two things you actually described. They are close in cost on purpose, because this is not a decision about budget — it is a decision about which kind of film you will still be watching in twenty years. One reaches across the whole day. The other reaches deeper into part of it.
Option One
The Episode
“Teaser & episode video, with full ceremony & speeches”
Your films
- Teaser Film — the excitement, within days of the wedding
- Episode-Length Film — the experience of the day, shaped and immersive
- Your ceremony and speeches in full, restored to their complete length inside the film, with live audio
Why you would choose it
- It reaches the whole day — your morning and your portraits are in the film, not only in the short ones.
- Music-led and shaped, so it stays watchable. Long enough to feel like the day, short enough that you will return to it.
$11,200
Your share of travel is already in this figure.
Nothing further to add for Melbourne.
Option Two
The Documentary
“Alternatively highlight + documentary”
Your films
- Teaser Film — the excitement, within days of the wedding
- Highlight Film — 6 to 8 minutes, the emotional shape of the day
- Documentary Film, Standard — our most chosen documentary edit. Getting ready across both rooms, a short montage of the venue and your arrival, the full ceremony, the reception reveal, entrances, all speeches, cake, first and parent dances, and five minutes of every dance bracket in order
Why you would choose it
- The reception kept at its real length — entrances, cake, parent dances and every bracket of the night, in order, with live audio.
- Note the photo session isn’t in this edit, so your portraits across the estate live in the Teaser and Highlight — unless you take the Extended upgrade below.
$10,600
Your share of travel is already in this figure.
Nothing further to add for Melbourne.
Included either way
Available with either option
You asked directly, so here it is
Travel, with nothing hidden inside it.
We are not going to pretend that flying a crew to Victoria costs nothing. It comes to about $2,200, and the whole of it is set out beside this so you can see where it goes.
We carry half. Your half is already inside the figures you saw on the previous section — there is no Melbourne surcharge waiting at the end, and nothing further to add. That is why both options were quoted to you as one number rather than a price plus travel.
The part that matters more than the money is how we do it. Tanglewood sits around ninety minutes from Melbourne Airport. We fly in the day before, every time, and stay on the Peninsula the night before your wedding. A delayed flight, or weather sitting over Tullamarine, is never something your morning has to absorb. Equipment is unpacked, tested and charged before you have woken up.
We stay the night after as well. Your coverage runs through to the exit, which means there is no flight to make and no reason for anyone to start packing cameras while your friends are still dancing. The last hour of your wedding gets the same attention as the first.
We carry
$1,100
Your half
$1,100
Still to pay
Nothing
Your half is already built into both option prices. No surcharge, no mileage, no invoice at the end for the drive down the Peninsula.
Why we argue for the long film
Your wedding happens three times.
When you plan it. When you live it. And when you watch it back. Almost every conversation in this industry is about the second one. Very little of the money is.
The first experience
Plan
Twenty months of decisions, most of them made twice. Our work starts here, in your run sheet, because the order you build the day in is the film you end up with. Nobody photographs their way out of a badly sequenced afternoon.
The second experience
Live
Nine and a half hours, experienced at speed and remembered in fragments. That is not a failure of attention — it happens to everyone, and it is the reason any of this exists. Our job on the day is to stay out of it while missing none of it.
The third experience
Revisit
The longest of the three, and the only version anyone else will ever see. It is made entirely of what was kept. You already understood this — it is why you asked for something longer than a highlight.
Some moments reveal their value only with time.
The distinction matters. The future reveals what was always precious — it does not decide it. A speech is not made significant by the passing of years; it was significant in the room, and time only removes every other way of getting back to it. That is the entire argument for covering your ceremony and your speeches in full, and it is why both of the options on this page do, whichever one you choose.
What happens next
You asked for the numbers before a call. Now you have them.
Saturday 18 March 2028 is currently open in our calendar. If either of the two options sits inside where you had landed, the next step is a Wedding Planning Session — thirty minutes, and a working conversation rather than a sales one.
The one gap in your running order
What time is the ceremony? Your timeline runs from 2.00pm through to an 11.30pm exit, but the ceremony itself isn’t in it. We have assumed 4.30pm and moved your photograph blocks half an hour later to make room — if it sits anywhere else, the whole afternoon shifts with it.
Thank you for the detail you put into your enquiry, Jemma — and for sending your running order through so quickly. It made this an easy page to write.
