Stephan Boeker Films

What Does it Even Mean, “To be a Storyteller?”

It wasn’t just like any other day. July 21st, 2016, I had it. I couldn’t do it anymore. I couldn’t use that word “story” or read about others self-professing themselves to be “a storyteller”. If I had to sit in front of that edit suite even just one more minute pumping out what had become the standard dime-a-dozen wedding music video, I was just going to lose it or worse, throw my MacPro out the window in a hissy fit.

On the one hand, the team and I built a successful wedding film company that, up until that point, had made so many couples happy. But on the other hand, we had become human tripods pressing a red record button as we let the often-mocked wedding video box dictate how we should do things.

We had succumbed to the formulaic assembly of:
• Drone shot openers
• Random speech snippets
• Music video theme, oftentimes with lyric music under-laying those randomly assembled speech snippets, which of course creates a cacophony of words vying for attention.

Even though the business was successful, we couldn’t go on doing the same old thing expecting different results, nor happier creative lives. Something just had to change.

One day…

I saw an email pop up in my inbox. It was from a 5-time Emmy-Award-Winning Filmmaker, Patrick Moreaux, who dared the reader to step-up and learn what it really means to “tell a story.”

I was intrigued and responded right away. A few days later I plunked down $6000 and began a journey that would teach me the science and art of storytelling and take me to far off places all over the world. We immersed ourselves into telling stories that were far outside the formulaic wedding film genre. We have traveled to:

Japan
Okinawa
Fiji
The French Riviera
The Colorado Rockies
Portland, Oregon
Cabo del Sol Mexico
and all over the Hawaiian Islands

… telling stories that actually applied scientific principles as well as the nuanced art of storytelling.

Changing the Dynamics of Wedding Films

Since that fateful meltdown in July 2016 in my edit suite when I exposed my deep dissatisfaction with our contributing role in the state of the wedding film genre, my team and I have been on a quest to change the expectation of what a wedding film can be.

We hope you already see a difference in our work. What we want for you is to imagine your love story and what it will do to your future, every time you, your friends and family, and future children witness it.

What we want for us collectively is to make your wedding film the new gold standard that touches an audiences’ heart and moves their mind. Our hundreds of stellar reviews show our proven track record. Now we want your story to redefine what a wedding film can be; your desires, hopes, dreams, and love to raise the bar for wedding film storytelling.