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Starting Point

If you'd ask me many years ago while I was a cheeky little scut serving a six year sentence at Di**le CBS, what I was aiming for as a career, than becoming a wedding videographer was certainly not top of the list. Indeed if the same question was thrown at me five years ago then the answer was still not near the summit.

However lo and behold but here I am creating a website, and my own company, looking to become the ultimate wedding video man. I use that phrase as the word 'videographer' was one I first heard bandied about at the Kerry ETB training centre by Mr Brian Nolan back in 2012. Until that point the term video man was the, to our ears, the correct one assigned to the same fella in every parish who recorded the local GAA matches, Easter & Christmas parades and the agricultural show.

And if 'videographer' was an exotic word rarely if ever used at home in the Di**le peninsula than 'cinematography' was one consigned to the credits of the Hollywood movies. These were rented from the Phoenix video shop operated by the great Michael 'Francie' O'Sullivan and his family. Dozens of hours each year were lost while, as teenagers, we scoured the shelves of the Phoenix searching for that next great movie that would transport us out of West Kerry and into foreign, or alien environs, for those precious couple of hours. The imaginations of three generations of Di**le children were formed and enhanced by the wonder found on the shelves at Michael Francies'.

Of course we had no 'hinternet' at that stage and the majority of homes were still surviving on two national tv channels. So it's not that difficult to figure out how vital it was to have the Phoenix and to obey the two cardinal rules of Michael Francie:

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