Wedding films in Lewes.
We are one in-house team for photos and film. Hayden films your Lewes day while Aaron shoots stills alongside, so the vows, the speeches and the sound of the whole thing come home with you, not only the pictures.
What a film gives you that photos do not.
A photograph of the keep garden with the Downs behind it is a lovely thing to frame. It can't give you back the sound. It won't 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 off the mound. A film records all of that, and the sound is the main reason to book one.
We are Robinson Martin Green, based at Mudberry Lane in Chichester, and Lewes sits roughly forty miles east of us along the coast into East Sussex, close to a two-hour round trip. 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 travel to Lewes, but we haven't filmed a wedding in the town itself yet, so we won't invent a Lewes couple to dress up this page. What we do have are full wedding films from days a comfortable drive from our base, filmed by the two people who'd come and film yours.
Lewes films well in a way a photograph only hints at. The light doesn't sit still here. On the castle mound it swings from open glare to deep flint shadow within a few steps, and a filmmaker who is watching for it can catch the moment the sun drops behind the ridge and the whole town below turns warm, a shift that lives in moving footage and dies in a single frame. Sound is the other thing this town gives a film. A ceremony held inside the brick of a townhouse garden keeps a voice close, with none of the open wind you fight up on the keep, so the vows and the readings land clean on the recording. We plan the day around both, the picture and the sound, because a wedding film that looks handsome and loses the words halfway through the vows has missed the whole point of being a film.
You cannot film it again later.
Most couples plan the photographs first and hold the film back as a maybe. Then the day arrives and passes in a rush, the speeches happen once, the first dance happens once, and none of it can be recorded again afterwards. Stills freeze how the day looked. Only a film gives you the movement and the sound, from the speeches to the rings in the keep garden and a full room later on. It's the one part of the wedding you can't make again, and after the fact it's the one couples most often say they wish they hadn't skipped.
From the twittens up to the castle.
A Lewes wedding has a shape to it that suits a film, because the town is built in layers. In the morning we film the getting ready, the small details and the walk through the twittens toward the ceremony. Then the day climbs. Up on the castle mound the keep garden opens out with the Downs on every side, the high point of the film and the moment most couples picture. As the afternoon turns, the light comes low across the flint and the rooftops, and a couple standing up there for a few minutes gives you some of the best evening footage of the day.
Then it comes back down. The reception in a townhouse below films differently again, the room full and loud, the speeches and the first dance needing the recorded sound as much as the picture. We keep the room miked while we film it, so the finished piece carries the laugh that ran through the best man and the opening bars of your first dance as they truly sounded, not a track dropped over the top to paper over silence.
The nearest weddings we have covered.
Here are some of our real weddings a short drive from Lewes. Stacey and Bob at The Ravenswood, East Grinstead, and Becky and Lucas at The Highdown near Worthing. Each one links to the full case study.
How your Lewes 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 fighting for the aisle during the vows, and you are the one caught in the middle asking two strangers to sort themselves out. We've already agreed who stands where before you walk in, so the camera can hold on you without a second shooter drifting into the frame.
Hayden films the ceremony on 2 cameras, one held 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. For an unfamiliar setting like the keep garden or a townhouse hall we walk it first, so the first time we film there isn't on your actual day. We work out where the recorded sound will be clean, where the light will fall at your ceremony hour, and where the drone can lift if the airspace over the town allows it. Nothing gets staged twice for the two cameras. You are filmed and photographed at the same time, then handed straight back to your guests.
How the film is delivered.
The edit is where a wedding film is actually made, and it's worth knowing what happens once the day is over. We work through the footage and the recorded sound, choose the moments, and cut the wedding film, usually within 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 turning up on a memory stick that ends up in a drawer. On Silver and Gold there's a short teaser too, and it comes through first so you've got something to share while the film is finished. Because both your film and your photographs come from us, there's 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 Lewes film.
Up at the castle you are outdoors and exposed. Will the vows still be clear on the film?
They will, because we don't rely on the on-camera microphone for the words. We put a small transmitter on the groom and a second on whoever is leading the ceremony, so the vows and the readings are recorded within about 20cm of the mouth rather than from ten feet back across an open keep garden. On a breezy day up on the mound that's the difference between hearing the promises and hearing the wind. The music in the finished film sits under that recorded sound, never on top of silence.
Our ceremony is at the castle and the reception is elsewhere in town. Does the film still feel like one piece?
That split is common in Lewes because the keep garden has the view but not the room for a full sit-down, so couples move down to a townhouse venue or a hall afterwards. On film that gap can feel like two separate videos if it isn't handled, so we cut it as one continuous piece, the walk down off the mound bridging the ceremony above and the evening below. You'll get a single film that carries the whole day rather than two half-films stitched at the join.
Can we have drone footage over the town and the Downs, or a short clip for social?
Where the airspace and the weather allow it, yes to both. Lewes sitting in its bowl of Downs with the castle above the rooftops is made for one slow aerial move, and we clear the permissions in advance rather than deciding on the day. If a restriction or the wind rules out flying, we'll say so beforehand and cover it from the ground. We can also cut a short vertical clip, around 60 seconds, sized for Instagram and TikTok, so you've got something to share in the days after the wedding while the full film is still being edited.
Can we book just the film, or does it have to come with photography?
The film can be booked on its own if you already have a photographer, and we plan around whoever else is covering the day so nobody's treading on anybody. Most couples book both with us so one in-house team runs the whole thing on one plan, which is what we'd suggest, but the film doesn't depend on it.
More to watch before you decide.
We have not filmed in Lewes yet, so here are real films and the days behind them, a comfortable drive away. If you are weighing up nearby areas, the rest is one click away.
Check your date with us.
Tell us your date and your Lewes venue and one of us will reply personally, normally inside a day, or call us on 07928 549702. We will let you know at once whether the date is free to film.