Wedding films at Bailiffscourt.
Photography and film come from one in-house team. Hayden films your Bailiffscourt day while Aaron shoots stills alongside, so the sound, the vows and the speeches come home with you, not just the pictures.
A film records the sound too.
A photograph of the Chapel at Bailiffscourt, candlelit and full of flowers, is a lovely thing to have on the wall. It cannot give you back the sound. It will not have the sound of the vows, the laughter in the room during the best man’s speech, or the music as you walked back down the aisle. A film keeps all of that. That is the whole reason to book one, so you keep the sound of the day as well as the pictures.
We are Robinson Martin Green, based at Mudberry Lane in Chichester, and Bailiffscourt sits a short drive down the coast at Climping, well inside the area we cover. The films are led by Hayden Martin-Green, who shoots and cuts them, with Aaron Robinson on stills working the same day beside him. We should be straight with you from the start. We cover Bailiffscourt but we have not filmed a wedding there yet, so we will not invent a couple to fill 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.
Bailiffscourt films beautifully. In the final hour before sunset the light comes low and warm across the 30 acres of parkland and down towards Climping Beach, and a filmmaker who is watching for it can catch the whole estate turning gold in the last of the day. Sound is the other thing this venue gives you. A ceremony inside the thick stone of the 13th-century Chapel holds a voice close, with none of the wind you fight in an open field, so the vows and the readings land clean on the recording rather than washing out. We plan the day around both, the picture and the sound, because a wedding film that looks lovely and loses the words halfway through the vows has missed the point.
Why we would say book the film.
Most couples plan the photographs first and leave the film as the thing they might add later. Then the day passes in a blur of adrenaline, the speeches happen once, the first dance happens once, and there is no way to go back and record any of it again. Stills freeze how it looked. Only a film gives you the movement and the sound, including the speeches as they were given and the room going quiet for the rings. It is the one part of the day you cannot make again afterwards, which is why we suggest booking the film early.
The parts of the day we film.
A Bailiffscourt wedding film has more than one look in it, and an exclusive-use day on the estate gives you all of them. In the morning we film the getting ready shots, the details and the walk over to the Chapel. The middle of the day is the ceremony and the gardens, the Rose Garden or the Courtyard, the part most couples picture when they imagine the film. The evening is when an estate on the coast looks best on film. As the sun drops the last of the light comes low across the parkland toward the sea, and a couple walking down to Climping Beach for a few minutes at that point gives you the closing shots of the film.
The reception films differently again. First dances, speeches and the noise of a full room in the Music Room or the restaurant need the sound as much as the picture, so we keep recording the room while we film it, and the finished piece carries the laugh that ran through the best man’s speech and the first few bars of your first dance as they actually sounded, not a track dropped over the top.
Weddings we have covered close by.
Rather than talk at you, here are real weddings we have covered a short drive from Bailiffscourt. Cameren and Sian at Arundel Town Hall, and Susan and Luke at Edes House in Chichester. Click a couple to read about their day.
How your Bailiffscourt day gets filmed.
Because Hayden films while Aaron photographs, there is one team, one plan and one point of contact rather than two suppliers meeting for the first time at your ceremony. That matters more on film than it does on stills. A videographer who has never met your photographer ends up in half their shots and competing for the aisle during the vows, and you are the one caught in the middle asking two strangers to sort it out. We have already agreed who stands where before you walk in, so the camera can hold on you without a second shooter drifting into frame.
Hayden films the ceremony on two cameras, one held on the couple and one wider on the room, so a missed reaction on one angle is caught on the other and the vows are never lost to a blocked shot. Because Bailiffscourt is taken on an exclusive-use basis, we can walk the Chapel, the Music Room and the gardens before the day, so the first time we film there is not on your actual wedding. We work out where the sound is clean, where the light will be at your ceremony hour, and where the drone can fly over the parkland if conditions allow. Nothing gets staged twice for the two cameras. You are filmed and photographed at the same time, then handed back to your guests.
Editing and delivery.
The edit is where a wedding film is actually made, and it is worth knowing what happens after the day. We work through the footage and the recorded sound, choose the moments, and edit your film, which normally takes eight to ten 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. With Silver and Gold, a short teaser lands there ahead of it, something to pass round while the rest is still being edited. Because both your film and your 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.
Do you record the speeches and the vows, or just play music over pretty shots?
We record the actual sound. Two discreet microphones, one on the groom and one on the officiant, catch the vows and the readings in the Chapel or wherever you marry, and a separate recorder by the top table picks up the speeches, so what you hear in the finished film is the words from the day rather than a song laid over silent footage. The music sits underneath that audio, not in place of it.
What wedding film do we get, and how long does it run?
There is one wedding film, and it comes with every collection, so there is no short version and long version to weigh up. Its length follows the day itself, which is why Adam and Panha’s runs just under six minutes. Choose Silver or Gold and the speeches are recorded in full in the film, with a short teaser you can share early. For a Bailiffscourt day the teaser comes to you first, then the finished film lands in your private Wedding Hub, usually within eight to ten weeks.
Can we have drone footage over the parkland and the beach, or a short reel for social?
Where the venue and the conditions allow it, yes to both. The 30 acres at Bailiffscourt running down to Climping Beach are made for an aerial shot, and we clear the airspace and permissions in advance rather than on the day. If flying is not possible because of weather or a restriction, we tell you beforehand and cover it from the ground instead. We can also cut a short vertical teaser, around sixty seconds, sized for Instagram and TikTok, so you have something to share in the days after the wedding while the full film is still being edited.
Can we book the film on its own, or does it come with photography?
Film can be booked on its own if you already have a photographer, and it works well because we plan around whoever else is covering the day. Most couples book both with us so one in-house team runs the whole thing on one plan, which is the setup we would recommend, but the film does not depend on it.
Our films and nearby areas.
We have not filmed at Bailiffscourt yet, so here are real films and the days behind them, a short drive away. If you are weighing up nearby areas, the rest is one click away.
Send us your date and your venue.
Tell us your date and one of us will reply personally, normally inside a day, or call us on 07777 139205. We will let you know at once whether the date is free to film.