Our Super 8 wedding films are gorgeous, nostalgic wedding videos for folks looking for something more gritty and natural. Grain, sprocket holes from the film, washes of light and the most spectacular rendering of colour imaginable. It’s kinda wild that for a generation, this was the normal way to create a record of our families and moments. So, this is exactly what we’d book for ourselves, and the look that this incredible 1970’s format gives, is like nothing else on the planet.
No sound, no drawn-out storytelling or Hollywood edits: just the best bits, the weird and the wacky, stored perfectly on real celluloid in the only way that the super-8 wedding film format can, and the result looks like a nostalgic dream that’s hard to believe you’re in.
What is Super 8 video?
Super 8 is a classic film format more widely known for capturing much of the home-videos that we might have seen out of the 1970’s.
Why a Super 8 wedding video?
In 2018 a special, strange looking thing landed in our lap: a super-8 camera. You can find them everywhere, and they look wonderful. Once we got the first tape back, we were hooked, and immediately began offering it for wedding couples: in the process, creating the first super-8 only video offering in the world, Supergreat Films. Now, we simply offer them here with our stills photography coverage.
What makes your super 8 videos different?
As well as over a decade of stoking the fire of film wedding photography, we have a previous life directing and producing music videos for all kinds of celebrated artists, and often on a shoestring budget. Along with that comes a unique sensitivity to slicing things together in a way that makes you feel something.
Check out our music videos for The Paper Kites, Briggs, Briggs, The Twoks, and Grammy winner Mike Waters.
If you’ve booked us as your melbourne wedding photographer, then adding a super 8 film to your wedding coverage is easy.
If you’ve not booked us for your wedding photography, you can still enquire for a standalone wedding film using our contact form at the top. If you’d like to connect with our Super-8 wedding film account, head over to Supergreat films.
We shoot Kodak film too: find out about having your entire wedding photographed on analog Kodak film by heading here: 35mm film wedding photographer.
A super 8 film is a 3-5 minute highlight of your wedding, captured on the Super 8 cameras and Super 8 Kodak film, which is still being produced. You might know the look without realising it: it was the format used to document much of the worlds family history throughout the 60’s and 70’s.
Super 8 film does not record sound. In the past it did, but that format has since been phased out. If you would like sound recorded, check out these wedding videographer Melbourne folks who create the full experience, sound included.
We craft these in a unique way, and shoot enough tapes to have plenty to work with. To cover processing and material fees, our super 8 wedding videos start at $3.5k.
After we film your wedding or session, the tapes are sent deep into northern Victoria, where our lab-wizard processes them chemically, before sending us the files. This part alone can take up to 3 weeks. From there, we do our edit. You should expect to receive your finished super 8 wedding film inside 6 weeks.
