Welcome back for another episode in the Amplify Your Weddings series! Today I have the honor of introducing you to Julianna Montano of Mira Mira Co. Julianna is an incredible photographer and hybrid videographer, with her own studio located in Austin, TX.  She is an expert at creating videos that are intentional, soulful, and beautiful. I am so excited for our conversation all about adding video in order to add value to your business! 

Review the Show Notes:

Why We Want To Offer Video In Addition To Photos (2:26)

What Value We Can Add For Our Couples And Ourselves With Video (4:44)

How To Get Started With Video At Your Next Wedding (8:18)

Which Moments To Capture On Video (11:25)

When To Start Adding Video To Your Packages (15:35)

Programs And Systems For Editing (18:16)

Delivering The Videos (19:52)

Finding And Using Music For Your Videos (21:46)

How Can We Utilize Video For Our Own Brand Awareness? (24:40)

Get Connected with Julianna! (30:07)

Connect with Julianna:

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Juliannaj.com

Review the Transcript:

Quianna Marie
Today I have the honor of introducing you to honestly such a beautiful soul Juliana with Mira Mira Co is an incredible photographer, and hybrid videographers it has been truly a joy watching her go from photographing weddings creating these jaw dropping videos that are just I can’t even find the words to describe and you have to watch them to capture the emotion and the love and the way she shares her stories is just incredibly inspiring. Juliana has her own studio located in Austin, Texas, where she cranks out the most intentional and beautiful branding and content shoots for her clients, as well as host empowering events for women and small business owners. When I think of friends in the industry, and someone that I just would speak so highly of and that I absolutely want to share about Julianna is one of those that comes to mind. I am beyond grateful that we have some time to connect and share with you about adding video to add value to your business. Even if you’re feeling a little scared about it. Don’t worry about it. Juliana has tons of education. And she’s really not with some stuff that I’m pushing her to really, really make happen coming up soon. So without further ado, let’s get this party started. Welcome to Quianna Marie weekly, a podcast for creatives who love to celebrate wins big or small by dancing in the kitchen photographers who are excited to serve their clients and friends who are ready to chase really, really big dreams. You can find all of the resources mentioned in this episode at Kiana murray.com/podcast. Join me as I share weekly motivation, chat about growing pains, finding genuine connection and celebrating your wins through the lens of a photographer at heart. Come join me for a dance party. Ready for Love though. All right, all right. I am so so thankful to see you Julianna, how are you doing?

Julianna J
I’m doing great. I’m so excited about this podcast.

Quianna Marie
I cannot wait to dive into video. I am so mesmerized by you and your work in your studio and all the incredible creations that you are literally pulling out of thin air to make magic. I’m just so impressed by you. Oh, you’re so sweet. Yeah, let’s dive right in. So I like to say, video is king and content is queen. Okay. So I would love to just start the conversation and just dive in really deep, and chat about the mindset and reasons why we should be offering video in addition to our photos,

Julianna J
oh 1,000% You should be adding video. So the way I like to say is if you were to look at like two pieces of content, one was a still photo with some beautiful captions. And one was the same. But it was a storytelling video. Which one are you going to pay attention more to like if I showed you both in three seconds, which one is more memorable, and it’s most likely going to be majority of people will vote for video, video just just evokes an emotion out of people that brings them back to a place or if they weren’t there, and you’re trying to like get them to understand something. It’s going to do it really, really fast. And it’s going to just pull different parts of your emotions. And I feel like a still photo well. So photo is just, it’s a beautiful photo. But there’s a lot left to understand. Like, you’re like, what am I trying to feel from this, right? Like you’re trying to figure that out. But with a video, you’re just feeling it, you’re just in it. And you’re just like it captivates all aspects of you like your sound like you can hear it, you can feel it, you can visually see it. Like there’s movements, there’s just so much going on. And so I just feel like video. I mean, we see it happening right now. But video is just where we’re heading for content creators and for just in general for getting our information.

Quianna Marie
Yes, I love that. And especially with you focusing on either weddings or brand photography, a lot of times we want to be curators of these moments and these emotions, right. So just like you mentioned, when you’re looking at a photo, like the old cliche is every photo is worth 1000 words, right? Like people attach their own thoughts and their own feelings. And they’re trying to describe it in their mind where with video, they don’t have time to think like they are just ingesting it, right. I mean it that sounds silly, but they’re just like they’re seeing it and they’re feeling it and they’re creating that emotion. That is so awesome.

Julianna J
Yeah, exactly. They’re in it. They’re fully in it like just in it versus having to like think at all.

Quianna Marie
Yes. Oh my gosh. So what advice would you give to a photographer? So this is kind of like this is where I’m going with this conversation. And I’m so so thankful for your time to share all your knowledge and all your expertise. So I feel like for many of us listeners, we have been in business for a while. Okay, like we are providing this really awesome experience. We can take really great photos, we have great personalities, we have the confidence. So what type of value can we add not only to our couples, but even a financial, like extra revenue stream, can we add by adding video to our wedding experience?

Julianna J
Yes, you can definitely add value by adding video as a wedding photographer. And the ways that you can do that is by number one, just making sure it’s super clear that you’re not a videographer, but you’re only creating a highlight reel, you just want to make sure that’s a super disclaimer. Because if your wedding client is expecting a full videographer, or maybe they budgeted and they’re like, I want to hire a photographer and a videographer, let them do that, because you are not a videographer, you’re going to be just creating a highlight reel, you’re adding a little bit more for something that they might not have already decided to add. So what I usually like to do is I asked them a questionnaire and I’m like, or when I talked to them, I’m like, Hey, have you guys decided if you’re gonna hire a videographer, and they they’re like, yeah, it’s not really in our budget, or we’re really just not not sure. You know, we looked into it, it was just not right for us or whatever. Like once you kind of figure that out, and you realize they’re not going the route of a videographer, that’s the great opportunity to be like, Have you considered just hiring me to do a highlight reel, and then you put the disclaimer, like, I’m definitely gonna be your photographer, but I am able to shoot these B roll video clips, they don’t know what b roll is, it’s just Thomas video, show them an example of what you’ve already done. And then usually, it’s just an upsell, like, it’s an upsell, I want to say, somewhere at like 20 to 25%, when you’re starting of what you charge as a wedding photographer, because they’re expecting, like usually videographers are the same, if not, sometimes more than a photographer in price range, just as a lot of work. But if you’re starting out your first year, like your first four or five clients just charge like 25% or 20%. Again, you’re not a videographer. So you can’t really charge, you know, the double the price. But I would say like once your highlight reels get really good, and you’re really comfortable, and you’re able to just turn that around, you can charge up to 50%. So adding an extra 50% of whatever you charge on top of what you’re making would be just an incredible value for you. But also, it’s just gonna it’s they’re gonna love it. Like all my clients that I had that I do these highlight reels were like, I am loving that probably more than the photos just because it brings them into the emotions of the day that they get to hear themselves, they get to see themselves move, they get to see the the tears come out. It’s different from the photos.

Quianna Marie
I love that so much. And I feel like that is a great way especially as we are working on this series about amplifying your weddings is it’s not just adding value to your clients like you were adding so much just love and emotion and energy and just recapping the day for your clients. But the fact like this is what I’m huge on is creating extra streams of income and building up your revenue for literally doing the same work like like, yes, adding this video is adding work, obviously. But you’re already shooting that wedding day like you’re already there. This doesn’t have to be a whole new production. This doesn’t have to be a whole new photo shoot this on even an entirely different invoice even this can all be done in one swoop. And I think that is a beautiful way that you can incorporate both. Oh my gosh, okay, so Jules, what would be your advice for the gear because to me personally, when I think of video, I feel like this paralysis like I just get really scared about video. It’s a whole different wild beast. There’s audio involved, there’s different cameras settings, I know this can get really, really deep, really fast with tons of information. But if we wanted to just capture some video at our next wedding, what advice would you suggest for our gear,

Julianna J
so you most of your cameras now can shoot both, I would say unless you’re like a film photographer or something super, super old school. But I started with the D 750, a Nikon D 750. And it does the switch where like it’s a little clip and you could just switch the video. So I trained myself to switch to video whenever I needed to. And I trained all my second shooters to do the same. And so you can just start by changing a few simple settings in your camera. So you want to make sure that you’re shooting at 60 frames per second, not at 24. And the reason for that is because you’re not you’re gonna handle this whole camera and you’re not going to add anything extra so no gimbals no tripods, nothing. You’re going to just be shooting a photo, you’re going to flip over to shoot a video. And then what you’re gonna do is just literally hit record hold, it helps if you have a strap. So you want to like just to kind of hold resistance or just train yourself to hold it against your chest stays still as you can. There’s a very basic role. If the client or the subject is moving, you stay still if the subject your client is not moving, you move, just so there’s movements so that means like if you’re shooting a detail, for example, like a shoe, you’re going to need to move because if you’re just shooting a video and the shoes not moving, you’re not moving, it’s just a photo. So but if the client is moving and you haven’t do like a post or like, Okay, I want you guys to spin, you take the photo, right? And then you’re like, Okay, let’s do it one more time, this time do this, right, you don’t have the time you shoot the video, now you’re gonna shoot a video. And so you’re gonna just switch over and make sure it’s 60 frames per second. And it’s at neutral profile, because you’ll just want to add a little bit of that color back. And it’s like your way of shooting RAW. But with video, Ooh,

Quianna Marie
interesting. See, this is why you are the genius at this, adding value and adding video to this because you’ve already dropped these things. I’m like, I don’t even know what those mean. So I need help with that. Oh, my gosh. And then so I love that you mentioned there’s really no gear so. So basically, we can show up to our next wedding and create these little video clips. Just so we have already in our camera bag. Yes,

Julianna J
1,000% you, Joe and you honestly, even if you think you need the gear you don’t because when you what you realize is, as a photographer, you don’t have the time because you’re so fast paced like you’re just especially at a wedding, you’re just going so quick, you don’t have the time to get a gimbal and try to stabilize that you don’t have a time to go and get like a tripod and clip it on and stick it on like you’re wasting valuable time. So in order to enter again, you’re not a videographer, you’re a photographer, you’re just creating highlight reels. So you’ll just kind of have in your mind frame a list of clips that you’ll need to get throughout the day. And just knowing that I just need these highlighted reels. And then these clips together will tell a story at the end of this.

Quianna Marie
I love that. And that kind of leads us right into our next question that you kind of already answered it. But we can elaborate a little bit more about weddings can be so incredibly overwhelming. Like we are juggling timelines, we are juggling crying flower girls, we are trying hard to make sure that our brides and our Grooms and our our happy couples are well taken care of like there’s just, there’s so much on our mind as photographers already the thought of adding video can be extremely overwhelming. So what type of moments would you say you find that are like little checkpoints throughout the day, that would kind of just be like a little checklist for us as we are photographing. But then also taking the sneaky video clips.

Julianna J
Yeah, so I like to say try to get a solid, three of each situation like three clips and try to make them slightly different angles if you can. So like think of the roll like wide close up inside, maybe. So if I were in each stage of the day, so like, if I’m coming in, I need I start with the brides details, I’m going to do the same thing. And we’d be like, Okay, it’s the wedding dress, I’m gonna go wide close up inside real quick, the wedding dress is important. And then maybe like just the set up all of the like shoes and all the jewelry. And that’s second, and that’s good, like, and then maybe so those are your three roles. Those are like essentially your detail shots, the same beer on details is the same. And then the second stage would be like, Okay, now to tell a story, I need to get a clip of like a bridesmaid, maybe like getting ready. And then the brightly these little elements, the part where it starts to feel really, really hard. Would it be like, Oh my gosh, I’m shooting a photo and the bride is getting to her dress, there’s only 10 seconds, when am I going to have time to flip over to video, so you prioritize your photography. And then at the end again, you can always say hey, would you just go ahead and just do that one more time, but just like kind of like just make, just turn a little bit to the left this time. And then now start shooting video. So just guarantee your photos first secondary or video because if you miss your video, you’ve already put it in the disclaimer that you’re not a pretty ographers or photographers and none of these shots are guaranteed and don’t know that. Like they know you didn’t get that one clip, they don’t care. They just see the whole video together. And they’re like, This is amazing.

Quianna Marie
They’re crying, they’re not thinking about those moments that you’ve missed. They’re just so grateful for what you captured. So that’s beautiful. Exactly. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Okay, so I already because I’m such a visual person. I’m already visualizing these moments. And I love that you mentioned too, that these are quick, right? So So would you say these video clips that you’re capturing are only like three to five seconds for each of these little angles?

Julianna J
Yes. So remember, I said you have to shoot at 60 frames per second. If you could shoot at 120 that would even be better. So what that means is a 24 frames, which is normally like a cinematic movie, right? We’re watching the movie right now we’re like, I think I want to say we’re like 29 Because we’re live like a television kind of. But like when you’re watching cinematic movie, it’s a 24 but when you when you go to 60 and 20 What you’re doing is you’re basically shooting double the amount of photos in between those sides that make a video. So what you do is you slow it down and when you slow it down and stabilizes everything just you only need like two seconds of that. So if I were to take a base and make that simple if I were to take a four second video and I was a slightly shaky when I convert that it’s going to be an eight second video is to double it. And then you’re only looking for two seconds of stabilization. That’s it. Good shot in that video two to three seconds to add to the video. So you’re giving yourself space and time to be able to do that. And I would say like So aim for like four seconds, three seconds. If you can just count it. Be like 1234. Okay, good. And just try to stay as still as you can. Or if you’re moving, you’ll train yourself on how to move. I get like, show you but you can’t see right now.

Quianna Marie
You’re so cute. You’re dancing over here. I can see you like dancing right now. Like, they can’t see you. No, I love it. Oh my goodness. Okay, so this is such good information. What is your advice for someone that maybe is nervous to tell someone so like, because I’m already thinking right now I’m like, Okay, I want to start adding video to my future weddings and to and not just behind the scenes video, like, I am the behind the scenes dancing boomerang queen, like I love behind the scenes, and there’s so much power in that. But adding this high quality video is just going to uplevel the game, it’s just going to uplevel so many things. And so I guess my question is, after you have your video, okay, like you’ve been like kind of playing with it, right? Like, at what point? Do you tell your athlete? Do you tell your clients? Because it’s like, where’s that fine line between? Hey, like, I just want to be sneaky about it. And I just want to practice versus like, when would you guess photographers could confidently start actually adding these to their packages? What does that learning curve look like? I mean, we’re photographers, we we are very coachable. And we are very moldable. But like, this stuff takes practice. So what would you suggest for like a timeline that we can start implementing this?

Julianna J
So my first step would be, don’t tell your clients just do it behind? Yeah, so practice that will release so much pressure. So like the next one, you go, just be like, Okay, I’m gonna start to practice this and see how far you get. Because you’ll find that in moments of stress, you won’t shoot the video, and you’ll be like, Okay, that was good to catch, I wasn’t able to shoot that video and I wasn’t comfortable, like a first kiss, you’re gonna have to make the choice, is it gonna be a photo or video, this is where your second shooter would come in. And you’d be like, You got you have a third shooter or whatever, I always just have interns with me for this very reason. I always had an internship program, the intern would come in, I’m like, your job is literally just to back us up for these videos, or these photos. Because one photographer would be taking one angle, and then I’d be shooting a video or whatever it is, especially if we had it in the package. But in the beginning of your solo, and you’re by yourself, just train yourself to start learning how to flip between video and photo that’s going to be a learning curve. Because especially depending on your camera, and what that functionality looks like to train yourself to flip really fast. Once you’re in the habit of that and you’ve been able to solidify three edited videos, three weddings, that you were like solid in creating a usable one that you could definitely have in your portfolio video, a highlight reel, that you’re good to start charging. And again, you’re going to start low so that like, the risk isn’t very big. So you’ll be like at 20% Maybe, and for the first like few clients, and then you’re just because you’re gonna have that sense of pressure, like oh my gosh, action to deliver this. So start there, and then you eventually just get really comfortable. And you’re like, oh, man, I could do this. This is easy. And then now once you’re at that, like I want to do like it usually takes me I think it took me about a year and a half before I was able to charge up to like 50% of what I was charging as a wedding photographer.

Quianna Marie
That’s amazing. Oh my goodness. Okay, so once we kind of have a confidence, we start playing around with our cameras, we start capturing all this little video, what are the programs or the systems that you recommend for editing? I feel like this can be this is a whole other beast. But where do you actually play with this video footage?

Julianna J
So the one that I use, and I’m, I’m gonna say it was a huge learning curve. And it’s not like the easiest you differently is Premiere Pro. So I use Premiere Pro because I had all the Adobe suites. And so I was like, well, I’ll teach myself I use Premiere Pro, but it’s like Photoshop, like you have Lightroom right, which is so much easier. And then you have Photoshop and you’re like why is there are 1000 buttons in this Photoshop and 1000 ways to use this. And so actually, once I like learn how to use Premiere Pro, I feel like it’s actually really simple. There’s just like a few steps you need to do and it’s really easy. The only reason I use Premiere Pro is because it’s in suite Final Cut does have like a one I think it’s a one time price or something but I heard it’s a lot easier to Vinci there’s also iMovie which would be totally fine because what you’re doing is really simple. It’s not super crazy creative. There’s a few like little elements of things you will need your video editing tools to be able to do to make a good video which is things I kind of like talk about but I am looking into like other ones because I’m like Premiere Pro at even though now it’s simple for me it was a huge learning curve and that oh yeah, maybe because I didn’t know someone teach me I was teaching myself so maybe it’s easier. Someone’s

Quianna Marie
Yeah, well, it’s just like you mentioned it’s Photoshop. It’s learning an entirely new language almost.

Julianna J
Yeah, and I wish it was like, can you just show me the 10 buttons? I need not the 1000 buttons that to fill but yes,

Quianna Marie
oh my goodness. And then what do you use for delivery your video so once you have a couple edits on them, you kind of slap it together and create This beautiful cinematic experience, how are you actually delivering them to your clients?

Julianna J
Okay, so I use Vimeo, but it is an extra costs, I think it’s totally worth it because it’s shareable. It allows for comments, it allows for downloads, it’s a really good cloud system for that. Other than that, if you’re going like beginning and you’re like, I don’t really want to invest in all these extra things, I started with Google Drive, like literally just or a Dropbox, I would just stick it in there, they can share it with their clients, they can download it, usually they would download it, put it on a phone, and then they would just like AirDrop it or share it or text it to all their friends, I used to also use YouTube, I would just hide it. So I’d been on YouTube, and then hide it so that it was a shareable link for their friends. And then it was also another version of like a cloud. So like, I had a hidden folder, and I had my whole portfolio on there. And it was an easy way to create a playlist, hide the playlists. And then when I was setting that portfolio piece, instead of setting them all these, like separate Google Docs, or Google Drive links, I would just be like, here is a link to my YouTube playlist. And I had all of the videos, I had a creative micro folio.

Quianna Marie
Amazing, these are so helpful. And I love that you mentioned to like having the the hidden YouTube things. And the Vimeo, like all these different options is huge. Because that’s another thing where you want to be able to deliver these, but you want to be able to do it. So people can actually share it and see it, right?

Julianna J
Yes. And actually, I just realized if anybody, you just pick time, they have videos on there. So like you can do, I used to do that. So it was like their photos. And then on the top, you can upload a video, so I would upload the video. So it was like one stop shop, like, here’s your photos and your video in one page. It

Quianna Marie
was so beautiful that I see I love that this is why I love talking to you girls, because I’m like, I’m always learning so much. I’m taking notes. This is awesome. And then what about usic? Like, I want to chat about music and all these copyright issues. And I mean, we’re really, I don’t want to say lucky today, but things have been changing with with reels and tiktoks where, you know, you can post something, and then it’s like already provided for you The music’s already there. So you don’t run into as many copyright issues today if you’re using them properly. But what’s your advice for finding music and making sure that you’re not just being a pirate online?

Julianna J
Yeah, so you will need to have a licensed music option. Unfortunately, that is a huge one that you don’t want to risk. I use a really cheap one. It’s called invite Envato I think elements, and it’s really inexpensive. It provides so much more than music. It provides like video templates, and titles and fonts and graphics and photo stocks. And it’s like a whole suite of creative things. And then the butter music is some of my favorite like I used to use artless and another one that was super popular and it was just music. But I would just spend hours trying to filter by like the right song. And within bottle I can easily just but with the emotion as I’m like, wedding, romantic, upbeat song, and they would just give me like 1000 songs. And usually the first three I’m like, Yeah, that’s it. And like, I can hear it really fast. And so what you can do is you can download a few songs, send them to your clients and have them pick, in my opinion. So when you’re editing this video music is you’re going to edit everything to the music. So the music is very key, like it’s gonna drive the type of emotion that you want, whether you want it to be upbeat, or more romantic or slow down. So you’re gonna definitely want to get a taste for what the client wants. Because if you edit a video to the song, and then the clients like yeah, I love the video, but I hate the song, you’re starting from scratch, like you’re just gonna be like, Oh my gosh, I edited that whole thing perfectly synced to the song and now I have to re edit it. So just get their their taste first just be like hey, here’s the three song options that you have give them less options and be like, here are the three these are license you will get clients I’ve noticed this. So here’s a big tip, you will get clients that will have like, Can you do a to our wedding dance song, the Mariah Carey song and you have to educate them and be like, I can do that but you can’t post it anywhere online. And they’re gonna be like what No, I want to post it online and be like Yeah, so it’s a copyright issue you’re going to need to I need to use licensed music so we can’t use these very popular songs that you’re gonna want but they’ll probably figure a way around it and post a real with their song and the Mariah Carey song if they want but it’s not on you so that’s the good part I

Quianna Marie
love that and I love how you can be really proactive about that right you can explain that so book doesn’t become an issue where they’re all sad but no I really wanted this song or this this country song to be the you know my but the background to our videos so I love that tip that’s huge. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Well I love how you have been kind of just like me kind of dancing through pivoting right so primarily a wedding photographer and now offering brand shoots. I mean, your studio Jules is just it’s just amazing. It’s goals beyond goals. And so I want to kind of chat about what are some ways as we are adding videos for weddings, adding the like video to our toolkits and, you know, into our tool belt, what are some ways that we as business owners can utilize video for own content creation in our own brand awareness?

Julianna J
I love this. It’s a great question. Okay. So I feel like we are motivated by our clients, right? So we’re going to make these videos, we’re like, oh, our clients are going to benefit. But what you’re realizing is you’re actually teaching yourself a skill that you’re absolutely going to benefit from. So now that you know how to make videos, especially good professional videos, the next step is like how do I use these to market myself. So the trick that I had was, again, it always had an internship program, I always had interns with me. And that was their job, I was like, your job is literally to take videos, and behind the scenes and photos of me to market everything I am doing so that I could focus on my clients. So I would definitely have somebody there to shoot video of you in action, so that you’re able to put together this. And honestly, if you just do that for a year, so I did that for a year, by the end of the year, I would make an incredible trailer for my own business that was on my website. And it was like highlighting like me in like 20 to 30 Different weddings. And it was like, cool, because you would see the same pose that I would maybe do, or like you’d be like, you know, quick, it wasn’t gonna speed up song and it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and it would be like 15 different, no couples, or what are groomsmen throwing up in the air, and you’d see my smile, and it was just like this amazing, like, energetic video that I was able to, like pretty much sell myself and people be like, I know exactly what I’m getting, I’m gonna work with you. And that was easier than me being like, I don’t know, like, it’s I didn’t have that I think it was harder for me to sell myself and convince people. So it’s a huge benefit just to have someone else someone trained under you and be like, hey, I really want you to just start shooting video clips, there has to be no objective to it, just shoot video clips of me in action as I’m going through the day, just so I can create something out of it. At the end of the year, honestly, videos on editing less than the filming. So editing is where you’re going to create your story is especially in this situation.

Quianna Marie
Wow. I love that because I feel like as photographers, the story is in creating that first right? Like almost like kind of like guiding and posing and creating magic, right? Like so it’s it’s both right photography is capturing things unfold naturally, but then also curating and making things happen. But I love how you just mentioned like, don’t stress about it, just capture it, just absolutely just capture it unfold, be almost like a documentary photographer or filmmaker, and then create that story and create that emotion and that movement in that life. I can like see these videos already?

Julianna J
Who actually mentioned something that I absolutely agree, this was the big thing. As a photographer, I think you’re more busy. Like I think we have a harder job because we are organizers we’re creating, we’re having like, if you notice at a wedding, you have a videographer and a photographer, the video ographers chilling in the background. He’s like, Yeah, you do your thing. And he just gets to sit there and documentary style. And he gets to just capture all the beauty that you have curated. You’re like, I’m the one that told them to, like do anything, right, he doesn’t even have to talk to them. You just get to documentary, like, run around. So for me, I love it. If you’re an introvert, I’m not an introvert. But if you are an introvert, I feel like you’re more geared to be a videographer, because you get to be there, but you just get to see it on board. But the real real magic happens in the editing. Like that’s when you come back and you’ve filtered through all these clips, and you get to sit there and your headphones hear the music and you feel it all and you’re just creating a story. So it’s a little bit more work, I would say after we’re a photographer, like they’re doing all the work during the shoot, and then after they just have to edit these photos with the with the coloring

Quianna Marie
and everything that they want. I love that and I feel like that totally piggybacks on the you know, being a main shooter and having your second shooter to capture video. So that kind of just kind of trained your brain to do both to flip through it quickly as as a photographer you’re curating right? You’re making these these wedding parties do dance parties, and you’re creating that movement, which is why humbly so I know I love when photographers tell me they love working with me because I make their job so easy. Like we’re always adding movement, we’re adding motion. And so that makes it easier I think as we start adding video is to kind of have those two, like left brain right brain kind of situations like I’m going to create this as a photographer, but then I’m also going to slide in real quick and ask them to repeat it real quick for quick video.

Julianna J
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Especially if you’re the one doing if you have your second shooter or someone on the side being like, hey, you just captured video for me, you can release yourself from the pressure of having to shoot all the videos. There will be a difference though you’ll still want to be in charge of at least getting very basic video clips like good more close up stuff. That’s more in their face. Remember I said it’s wide close up side. So they’re they’re cut taking care of the side and probably the wide. But the wide is more marketing if you’re in the shot. So they might be like hey, can you just take a quick step back now Yep, I got you. And then, but you gotta take that close up shot.

Quianna Marie
I love it. Oh my gosh, Juliana, thank you so much. So I know you have some really big things in the works. I just want to like, download your brain. Like I just want to like, soak up as much time and you know, education from you. So if someone is interested and ready to uplevel their business, start adding video, start curating these, just these videos that are just scroll stoppers and make people slow their squirrel. How can we work with you what offers and programs you have coming up? Like just so magical? So how can we work with you?

Julianna J
Thank you. Yeah, so I am now launching an academies. So it will be a photographer’s way to learn videography. So it’s very specific to photographers, because I was a photographer for my gosh, I think it’s been like, almost 20 years now, which is crazy. But I started when I was 15. And so I know every like the photography lingo. I started as a photographer, and then I brought in video, but what I realized is the gap is as I was bringing in video, I was like Who do I go to to learn video and everyone that was learning from worth full videographers, like full time videographers, so they weren’t speaking to me in the way that I needed to hear it where it was like I was getting an over amount of tech conversations and things that probably weren’t super necessary and not realizing that I was a photographer first and not a videographer. So now what I want to do is I have his academy where I certify photographers to become videographers. So they’re always going to be a primary photographer, but they’re going to have the skill and the tool and be certified to be able to shoot these videos with my methods. So it’s going to be like the meat I mean, a method which is emotional, soulful videos like that’s the style that I have is like captivating these very short, but very, like how do you get this like feeling to be conveyed in your video. So I really, really want to certify people in the soulfulness and in the energetics of a video and movement and like, especially when it comes to like, what do you minimally need to use in gear minimally need to do in video and filming be so that you are the photographer first. But then what magic do we create in my style after in the editing. So all of that is this academy I’m going to do where it’s going to be like parts of it is going to be online. But then the real graduation is coming together in person and then filming and actually getting portfolio pieces. So that you’re you’re getting to test this out without being your real wedding or real client, and then getting to edit together in a room. And we all get to walk away with like, promos for ourselves, but also promos and a portfolio piece that you can actually be like, Okay, I can actually do this. And I’ve done it together with a team of

Quianna Marie
people. I love that I am so so excited for you. And I feel like that was like my like my last kind of follow up question is, is it something that you will be offering online, or like a hybrid of both where we can do some education online, but then like the VIP experience or something is going to be in person because there’s just there’s something so magical and so real about learning in person, like actually been able to toss the camera to you and ask what settings don’t need to be on right now. That soulful interaction and those energetic it’s like, cannot just be taught sitting in your living room with toddlers running around you and right listening in the car on the way to work like this stuff needs to be done in person. So how does that play out with your academy?

Julianna J
So my plan is, is let’s get like all of the tech stuff out of the way like like the rules like things I talked about here like pricing, and what type of angles and the shot list and all the things I want to talk about all that ahead. So that the time we’re getting together in person is you have the information now just applying it in person. So the in person part is me being able to create and curate these sets where we would have the models come in like you don’t have to worry about that. Also, if you’re like having questions that you’re like, yeah, that thing you talked about, I can’t find it on my camera. I have shot Nikon, Sony and canon. Like I have actually all three of those cameras in my camera bag right now. Because like, I love all brands, and so I know how to shoot with all type of cameras. So I’ll be able to like go through and help you. For me. Think about when you were a photographer and you were learning it was all hands on, right? Like you probably had your cat, your dog, your plants, or your boyfriend and you’re like, you’re my model for the next year until I figured this out. And so it’s a skill that you really can’t do online. So I want to get as much of the stuff out of the way so that when we are together for those days, it’s really just about putting it in action and like getting you comfortable to talk to a real person and like convert between photography and video and then all of us being able to like, create something together. I just think in person it just has to be in person for me like I wouldn’t feel comfortable creating a course that I wouldn’t be 1,000% that this person walked away and had a video that they can actually go and make their money back like at one Want them at the end of this workshop to send the email to their clients and be like, here’s a video I made. And you know, practice like, you know, would you want me to like make this video for you for next year certain $100 or whatever it is that you charge and so that you’re really just getting to like, see the money come in the value come right. I

Quianna Marie
love that and just equipping us with the competence, right? So not just the the tech and the mindset and education but truly the confidence that you can go out and provide this is just is this amazing? Oh my gosh. So Jules, how can we find you everyone after listen to this, I’m sure wants to be your BFF just like I secretly want to. So how can we find you? And what is the best way to get in contact and to be on the waitlist for this? Like, how do we get more information?

Julianna J
So right now I’m building out my website for the Academy. I can’t remember the domain, but I’m sure it’ll be in the show notes. So that but as of right now, the Instagram account will probably be like your best resource because I always put like link to all offers on there. And so that is Miramira.co.

Quianna Marie
Perfect. Oh, my gosh. Well, thank you so much for taking the time today to just dump a whole boatload of information and giving us the confidence to know that we can do this we can add value not just to our clients and to our dream couples, but also to our bottom line, like I would this amplifier wedding series I am all about like, how can we create impact with and create more income and I just feel like you are the perfect, perfect dads to share your knowledge. So thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. That’s a wrap on another episode of Quianna Marie weekly. Thank you so much for your listenership and support. You can find the resources and show notes for this episode and more at Quianna marie.com/podcast. I’d be honored if you’d show your support by leaving a review and rating on your favorite podcast app. Until next time, keep on dancing.