Wedding films in Arundel.
We are one in-house team for photos and film. Hayden films your Arundel day while Aaron shoots stills beside him, so the sound of the vows and the speeches comes home with you, not only the pictures.
What a film gives you that photos do not.
A photograph of the two of you with the castle rising behind the rooftops is a lovely thing to own. It cannot give you the sound. It will not have the sound of the vows, the laughter in the room during the best man’s speech, or the noise of the whole day as it actually happened. A film records all of that. That is the whole reason to book one, because the sound of the day comes home with you as well as the pictures.
We are Robinson Martin Green, based at Mudberry Lane in Chichester, and Arundel sits about 10 miles up the road, comfortably inside the area we cover. The films are led by Hayden Martin-Green, who shoots and edits them, with Aaron Robinson working stills at his side the same day. We will be straight with you from the start. We cover Arundel but we have not filmed a wedding in the town yet, so we are not going to invent an Arundel couple to dress this page. What we do have are full wedding films from days a short drive away, filmed by the two people who would come and film yours.
Arundel films like almost nowhere else in Sussex, and it is the skyline that does it. The castle and the cathedral standing over the rooftops, with the River Arun below and the Downs behind, is one of the best establishing shots a wedding film in this county can open on, and an aerial pass over the town at the right hour sets the film in Arundel from the first shot. Sound is the other thing the town does well. A ceremony held inside stone or a panelled room keeps a voice close and off the walls, so the vows and the readings land clean on the recording rather than washing into echo. We plan the day around both the picture and the sound, because a wedding film that looks grand and loses the words halfway through the ceremony has missed the point.
You cannot film it again later.
Most couples settle the photographs first and treat the film as a maybe for later. Then the day comes, runs on nerves and adrenaline, and is over. The speeches happen once, the first dance happens once, and nothing can be filmed again after the fact. Stills freeze how it looked. Only a film gives you back the movement and the sound, from the toasts to the quiet before the rings and the noise of the room. It is the one part of the day that cannot be remade, so it is worth deciding on early.
From getting ready to the first dance.
An Arundel wedding day falls into three parts on film, and the town looks different in each. In the morning we film the getting-ready shots and the small details before the crowd builds. The middle of the day is the ceremony and the streets climbing toward the keep, the part you picture when you imagine the film. Then the evening arrives, when a town surrounded by the South Downs looks its best on camera. As the sun drops behind the hills the light down by the river turns low and warm, and a couple walking out along the bank for a few minutes at that hour gives you some of the best evening footage of the day.
The reception films differently again. First dances, speeches and the noise of a full room are as much sound as picture, so we keep recording the room while we film it, and the finished piece carries the laugh that ran through a speech and the opening bars of your first dance as they actually sounded, not a track pasted over the top.
The nearest weddings we have covered.
Here are some of our real weddings close to Arundel. Cameren and Sian married at Arundel Town Hall in the town itself, and Adam and Panha a short drive up the valley at Fitzleroi Barn, Pulborough. Each one links to the full case study.
How your Arundel day gets filmed.
Because Hayden films while Aaron photographs, there is one team, one plan and one number to call rather than two suppliers meeting for the first time at your ceremony. That gap shows up harder on film than on stills. A videographer who has never met your photographer drifts into half their shots and competes for the aisle during the vows, and you become the person in the middle asking two strangers to work it out. The two of us have settled our positions between ourselves long before you arrive, so the camera can hold on you without a second shooter sliding into frame.
Hayden films the ceremony on 2 cameras, one held tight on the couple and one wider on the room, so a reaction missed on one angle is caught on the other and the vows are never lost to a blocked shot. A full day of filming runs to around 12 hours for us, from the morning preparations to the last of the evening, so the film carries the whole arc of the day rather than a slice of it. For a venue in and around Arundel we have not filmed at before we walk it first, working out where the sound stays clean, where the light will fall at your ceremony hour, and where a drone can legally fly if the day allows it, so the first time we film there is not on your actual date. Nothing gets staged twice for the cameras. You are filmed and photographed in the same moment, then handed straight back to your guests.
How the film is delivered.
The edit is where a wedding film is really made, and it is worth knowing what happens after the day is done. We work through the footage and the recorded sound, choose the moments, and cut your wedding film, which usually takes 8 to 10 weeks. It lands in your private Wedding Hub, the same place your photographs are delivered, so the film and the gallery sit together in one spot rather than the film arriving on a memory stick that disappears into a drawer. On Silver and Gold a short teaser arrives there first, so you have something to share with the family while the film itself is still being cut. Because both the film and the photographs come from us, there is one delivery, one login, and one team to talk to if you want a change.
Tell us what to film in the Wedding Hub.
Before the day, let us know the moments you want on film.
- Film moments requestedList the speeches, readings and people you want filmed, so Hayden knows to get them.
- One plan with the photosFilm and photography share one timeline, so Aaron and Hayden stay out of each other's way.
- Delivered with your galleryYour film arrives in the same private place as your photographs.
Questions from couples booking a film.
Can the film open with an aerial shot of the castle and the Downs?
Where the airspace and the weather on the day allow it, yes. The castle and the cathedral on the skyline, the River Arun winding below the town and the South Downs behind give a film one of the strongest opening shots in the county, and an establishing aerial over the town sets your day in Arundel in a way no ground shot can. We clear the permissions and the flight zone in advance rather than on the morning, and if conditions ground the drone we tell you beforehand and open the film from the ground instead. To be clear, we film the skyline as a backdrop, not the castle grounds themselves, so where your ceremony actually happens sets what we can capture close up.
Inside the ceremony, do you record the vows and the speeches, or lay music over silent footage?
We record the actual sound. A small microphone goes on the groom and another with the officiant, and a separate recorder sits by the top table for the speeches, so the vows, the readings and the toasts in the finished film are the words spoken on the day, not a song dropped over quiet footage. Arundel helps here. A ceremony inside stone or a panelled town room holds a voice close and keeps it off the walls, so the audio lands clean rather than echoing, and the music sits underneath the words rather than replacing them.
How long is our wedding film, and is there a teaser?
You get one wedding film, and every collection includes it. How long it runs depends on how your day unfolds, so Becky and Lucas above comes in under 4 minutes while Adam and Panha runs just under 6. There is no separate short and long version to choose between. On Silver and Gold the speeches are recorded in full in the film, and you also get a short teaser to share early. The teaser comes first, and the film follows in your private Wedding Hub, usually within 8 to 10 weeks of the day.
We already have a photographer. Can we book just the film?
Yes. The film stands on its own as a booking, and we plan around whoever else is covering the day so nobody is treading on anybody else at the ceremony. Most couples book the photography and the film together with us so one in-house team runs the whole day on a single plan, which is what we would recommend, but the film never relies on it.
More to watch before you decide.
We have not filmed in Arundel yet, so here are real films and the days behind them, a short drive up the valley. If you want to see how the photography and the film sit together, that is one click away too.
Check your date with us.
Tell us your date and your Arundel venue and one of us will reply personally, normally within 24 hours, or call us on 07928 549702. We will let you know at once whether the date is free to film.