tone.notes
Stories I keep meaning to write down. Weddings, the Jets years, the year I lived with Avid DiVa, the houses Steph and I have been rebuilding since 2019. One at a time. No schedule.
It’s the hardest project we’ve taken on. It’s also the only one I’d do again tomorrow.
— from Notes 002
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She saw a studio. I saw a basement.
She sees what a room could be. I price it.
A single family in Morristown nobody wanted, the basement I would have left alone, and the two months that made it two homes. With the whole sheet.
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Blank Space.
Oheka Castle, September 2014. A music video shoot, a moment at the monitor, and the call about Prague I said no to. The honest version.
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My phone, in the Blank Space video. Steph, running baseboard on Western Ave.
On the Timeline
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The freakin' Jets.
Five seasons inside 1 Jets Drive — 2010 to 2015. What Rex's locker room actually sounded like, and the Sunday I almost missed the team plane.
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Ten months with Avid DiVa.
Dustin Robertson let me live in his Hollywood studio. We cut Mariah, Gaga, Gap. Then we packed up for Palm Springs.
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How I got into weddings.
I said yes to a favor for a friend. Three hundred and fifty weddings later, I still say yes to the same kind of room.
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The LUMIX S1 II.
Fifteen years of buying cameras that promised to fix my footage. Turns out the fix was one camera, actually used. This is the one I stopped switching from.
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Fourth place.
Before the wedding, before the kids, there was a Dance Dance Revolution machine and a couples sync tournament. Steph and I got fourth place. It was love.
Colophon
Notes is written and cut by me, Justin Herrera — wedding filmmaker, broadcast editor, dad. Entries move through the same pipeline as my films: logged, string-out, rough cut, fine cut, published. No schedule, no algorithm. If you’re trying to get better at video yourself, I keep a free half hour on my calendar for exactly that.
Justin.
