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Lead Wedding Videographer
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Documentary-led wedding films on cinema and mirrorless bodies, including RED, with Super 8 woven in. Open now — we hire year-round.
The role
Films that hear the vows
Our video team shoots documentary-led wedding films on cinema and mirrorless bodies, including RED, with Super 8 woven in. You will cover ceremonies and receptions, capture audio properly, and hand off clean footage for a film delivered in eight to twelve weeks.
What you’ll do
- Film ceremonies and receptions documentary-first, on cinema and mirrorless bodies including RED, with Super 8 woven in
- Capture audio properly and redundantly — lavaliers, a shotgun, a dedicated recorder and a plan for a board feed
- Hand off clean footage for a film we deliver in eight to twelve weeks
- Shoot the same day as our photographers and content creators, from one call sheet
Hard minimums
- Minimum 25 weddings filmed as the lead videographer
- Two cinema or full-frame mirrorless bodies, a gimbal, and a lighting kit that can carry a dark reception
- Dual-system audio, redundantly: two lavaliers, a shotgun, a dedicated recorder and a plan for a board feed. Ceremony audio recorded on one lav with no backup is a disqualifier.
- Two complete delivered wedding films — plus the raw ceremony audio from one of them, so we can hear how you capture vows
- Editing to a delivered standard in Premiere Pro, Final Cut or Resolve. Assembling clips to a licensed track is not editing.
- Your own general liability and equipment insurance
What we look for
A high bar, held deliberately
Couples get one wedding day and it cannot be reshot. That is the whole reason we are strict. The same three gates decide every hire, and failing any one of them ends the application regardless of the other two.
Craft
A portfolio is the floor, not the pitch. We read the frames you did not choose — the middle of a gallery, the dark reception, the group formals, the hour when the light is ugly and the schedule has slipped. Anyone can pull ten strong images out of forty weddings, so we ask for the whole wedding instead.
Character
Weddings are long, hot and unrepeatable. We hire people who are early, unflappable, kind to vendors and generous with the crew — and we check. References are contacted, and we ask specifically about reliability, not talent. One no-show ends a career here, because the couple has no second date.
Kit
Professional bodies with dual card slots, a genuine backup of everything, and your own liability and equipment insurance. Single-slot cameras, entry-level kit, rented-for-the-day gear and borrowed bodies do not clear this stage, however good the work is. Venues ask us for certificates; we ask you.
Read this before you send anything
What gets an application declined immediately
We would rather tell you now than leave you waiting. Any one of these ends a submission at the first read.
- No portfolio link, a dead link, or a gallery locked behind a password with no code
- A highlight set where the role asks for a complete wedding, start to finish
- Fewer weddings than the stated minimum for the role, applied for anyway
- Single-card-slot bodies, no genuine backup body, or a kit you would have to rent per booking
- No general liability or equipment insurance, and no intention of carrying it
- Not naming the role you want — or applying to all of them at once
- Images that are AI-generated, heavily composited, or not your own work
- A reference who will not confirm you turned up on time
If you are under the bar today, that is a not-yet rather than a no. Our mentorship program for photographers is the honest route — it is paid training, not a job, and it exists precisely because the standard here does not move.
How to apply
Three steps, read by a person
Every application is read by a person on our studio team, against the requirements above rather than the presentation.
Send your work
Use our application form and include all six: the role (Lead Wedding Videographer), your city, how many weddings you have shot in that role, a link to at least one complete wedding gallery or film, your body and lens list, and whether you carry liability and equipment insurance. Anything missing and we cannot assess you.
Intro call
A fifteen-minute call with our studio manager. We walk through your work, how our wedding days run, what the role pays and where you would fit on the team.
Shoot with us
You come out on a real wedding day alongside a lead. Most applications never reach this stage. It is paid, and it — not the portfolio — is what decides the hire.
Prefer email? Write to info@lulanstudio.com with “Lead Wedding Videographer” in the subject line. Please don’t call, text or DM to check on an application — everything happens by email. Lulan Studio is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from every background.
Good to know
Questions about this role
Is this a freelance or staff position?
Freelance. Lead videographers are booked wedding by wedding around your availability, and you carry your own general liability and equipment insurance. We confirm the terms before anything is signed.
What does it pay?
Rates depend on the day and your experience. We tell you the number on your intro call, and we pay on a set schedule after each wedding.
Why do you ask for raw ceremony audio?
Because vows recorded badly cannot be re-recorded. The raw file tells us more about how you work than a finished film with a music bed over it.
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