“Love hugs and kisses?
How about Sticks and Knives?”
la vie en rose from Ichiro Films on Vimeo.
Mary had insisted that Adam’s proposal be unique. Adam then surprised her by telling her to stay at the playground after her shopping for an impromptu sparring practice. He then pinned her down and pulled out the ring.
Thus was history made, and Mary said yes. Well done! Thank you for being so sporting about sparring on your wedding day guys! 
Happy Valentine’s Day!
It’s almost our five year anniversary now, and looking back, a lot had changed. Ichiro Films’ dedication towards telling your unique story, however, remains much the same. We still work hard to stay open when being invited to weddings, to ensure that YOUR character, YOUR uniqueness stands out, and Ichiro Films stays behind the lens, behind the editing screen, and given our track record, we must have done something right.
However, in this time, as we have honed our skills, we have also began to develop an identity, a unique Ichiro Films DNA sequence, if you will. Where in the past, we started by mainly making a journal of your wedding, we have become more and more focused on finding that unique identity of your wedding.
And that troubles me, somehow, as an artist.
Would this mean we would become more and more rigid in our thinking, and as a result fall back to templates, and fixed ways of editing and filming?
To prevent that from happening, we have decided to come up with a new package that starts everything from scratch! While we maintain the Ichiro Films product, we have an Ichiro Films “Live” package where you tell us it is ok to go crazy with our creativity!
It is where we can try to come up with something totally new. But we cannot expect you to invest the same as our usual packages for something that is experimental, hence we have come up with a much lower price range for the Ichiro Films “Live” package.
And for the next 5 who signs up for the new package, we would extend another crazy discount of $500 off!
Ichiro Films “Live” is all about the same eye for beautiful moments, same passion for story telling, but for less of a hassle, and less of an investment.
Wedding Cinematography just got simpler
“I promise that you never have to go to sleep angry or feel that your love is taken for granted.
I will continue to hold your hands even if my other hand have to clutch on a walking stick.”
Jeremy’s vows are definitely one of the most touching ones I have heard over the years.
Shirley & Jeremy were sooo detailed with their planning that all their guest, which included the Ichiro Films team as well. Will was shooting with me, joined by Kelvin & Kailian from LightedPixels. I am sure I speak for all of us to say that we were very well taken care of during the short stay at Racha.
Christopher Tay
Some of our previous work :-
Hi everyone,
I am William Chua Kok How, the latest addition to Ichiro Films.
First of all, don’t mistake me with the William Chua in William Chua Photography.
I have to say so, because, I have friends who are getting married come asking me, “Are you that William Chua? Your pictures are amazing!”
And of course, previously, there were some people in the industry who were shocked when they learnt that Ichiro Films hire a new guy by the name of William Chua.
Christopher once received a call questioning, “Hey Chris, how do you manage to persuade William Chua to give up his photography and join Ichiro Films?”
Given all these confusions we had encountered (even before I was been officially announced), we knew that my real name is an obstacle.
Without a doubt, there is a need to give myself a “second” name to prevent any unnecessary confusions.
However, it is never easy for someone like me, who hasn’t had a decent alias to my belt since young.
Names like, “Toa Dao” (Big Head), “Chao-Tah” (utterly burnt), “Mud-Boy” and even “Bunny Boy”, are used on me at different stages of my life.
But still, I need to find myself a “new” name.
Enough said. I shall now officially introduce myself: I am Will Chua, an aspiring Wedding Videographer from Ichiro Films.
Looking back, I have been with Ichiro Films for about 5-6 months now.
I joined Ichiro Films in mid-May this year, and from then I have been tagging along with Why Keen and Christopher on numerous weddings.
At a start, these weddings were like a training to me, with Christopher and Why Keen constantly giving their input on my cinematography.
At the same time, these tagging alongs had also helped me to adapt myself to the life of a Wedding Videographer.
Such as not being able to enjoy Fridays with late nights whenever there is a wedding the next morning, waking up at 5am on a weekend morning when most of the people are still deep into sleep, and etc.
But, all these feelings of dread disappear, whenever I enter the bride’s home early in the morning, seeing everybody happily anticipating the big day to commence.
Mothers looking over their daughters doing make-up, with a smile which I can’t seem to be able to explain in words.
Sisters preparing the awful dishes with terrible ingredients, jam-packed with “evil” joy whenever the ideas of suffering groom and brothers come into mind.
And it’s true, happiness is contagious! It makes me happy to see happy people.
And it makes me even happier to be able to capture these precious moments for the couples to keep for life.
Till date, attending weddings have become less of a training, and more of a natural instinct to be present in an occasion filled with bliss and delight.
And all I have to do is to enjoy and immerse myself into this joyous event and capture it!
Without further ado, I would like to take this opportunity to share a video (http://www.vimeo.com/15151380) which was made in my first 3 months with Ichiro Films. Hope you like it. Enjoy! 
It started with post-its on her Beetle, asking if she could rent it out for weddings. This got May to thinking of turning it into a business, and it became a one-stop shop for everything you need for your wedding.
When May approached us last week to ask if she could include us on her site, we accepted immediately!
She has given us a special package for the rental of her pastel white Beetle, throwing in a custom made “Just Married” car-plate, and flower decor for Ichiro Films couples *.
Do give us a call or visit the Love Bug site to find out more!
Request for a viewing, and see if you do not get the Love Bug too!
Why Keen
* Terms and Conditions apply.
2009 came and went with a whirl of events and had been a magnificent year for all of us. Being chosen as Raffles Hotel’s 2010 Preferred Videography Company, being named by Singapore Tatler as one of the Best of Singapore in Wedding Videography, and last and but not least, starting the first wedding cinematographer’s network in Singapore, the Wedding Cinematographers Guild.
All of these sound great on paper, but we really have to thank all of our clients, if all of you had not been so beautiful, we would not have been able to create anything.
As an auspicious launch into a wonderful year, we have decided to do a quick promo for our 6 hour express package. Until Chinese New Year, the package would be going for $2000. For more details, do email us, or give either of us a call!
Keep shining in 2010, have a great year ahead!
Why Keen
This is our compilation trailer. Interested to view our most recent wedding masterpiece listed below, feel free to contact us at enquiry@ichirofilms.com. ENJOY!
Christopher Tay
Just last week, I completed filming for a pre-wedding short film with Jasmine and Sylvester, tentatively titled “You Know”.
It was excellent fun, it’s not often I get to film a car interior in the night, and I got to play with crazy lighting conditions! Here’s a short excerpt from the script written for them.
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“You Know”
Written by Why Keen
Adapted from interview with Jasmine and Sylvester
Scene 1
“He has to go …”
It’s night.
Close up of pavement, we can see cars moving by on the roads
Bags dropped in front of camera with a “thud” sound
Close up of JAS standing up, then looking up after placing bags on the ground
Over the shoulder of JAS to see TER with his bag stepping off into the street to flag for taxi
Wide Shot of TER with JAS, with bags, by the road, waiting for a cab.
TER Flags, and gets a cab.
Close up of opening cab door
Both TER and JAS gets on the cab.
Medium shot of both JAS and TER. JAS looks at TER.
JAS holds his hand in hers.
JAS Looks out of window.
TER Looks out of window.
Location shot of arriving at Changi Airport.
(Voice over) “You know … when you have to be away from her for a while.”
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I’ve spent hours talking to Jasmine and Sylvester, and it always surprises me when someone has such vivid memories of key moments in their lives. This is as good as it gets to having your memories of key events etched down in any coherent form.
As this is pure fun for us, we can probably do only a couple of these each year. And yes, we do very varied stuff, from first meeting revisits to honeymoon docu-dramas, so do check with us via email at enquiry @ ichirofilms.com or a quick call to either of us:- Why Keen @ +65 91094628 or Christopher @ +65 98427458 if you would like to explore!
Why Keen
