Hello! My name is Fen, nice to meet you online! I’m a freelance cinematographer and editor. My full name is “Xiaofen Zhang”, that’s a Chinese name so “Fen” is a lot easier.

Shooting and editing wedding is my full time dream job. I book around 40+ weddings a year and I edit them all by myself. Up to this day (fall of 2025), I have shot about 400 weddings. I love weddings so much. I love hanging out with the couple and all the people I have just met and feel the romance in the air. I love family love and spiritual love. I love food and I love reception time. I shoot the dance floor pretty much non-stop.

I also shoot and edit indie films sometimes and many of those films have won rewards in different categories in mid level film festivals. I was nominated a few times for Best Cinematography; the most recent one from the Triborough Film Festival in 2024, check out this clip for nominees, I’m at the very end “Xiaofen Zhang – Bound by Bushwick”:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLzh91n9uog If you want to check out more indie films I did, please visit the “Indie works” page.

I should mention that most couples hire me because of my signature 80’s 90’s format long version edit, especially those who are big fans of watching their parents’ wedding videos from the 80’s and 90’s! Yes I’m a reviver of this format. By the way, I often record guest wishes during reception as long as the couple requests it – I have a wireless hand-held mic. I have heard a lot of funny things spoken by guests, which only makes me love shooting weddings more!

And of course it’s just the “format”, my shooting technique is modern and cinematic. Everything from visual to audio capture is professionally done with cinema cameras, premium lens and pro audio gears. So I can also make beautiful short films and highlight reels out of the footage. Those short edits are available under add-on options.

Today’s wedding video trend seems to focus so much on the short film and people almost forgot this great American tradition of a long wedding video (2 to 3 hours long and chronological). It’s a video that records the happenings of the day, how the day flowed, who was there, what they said to the couple, what the DJ and band announced, what music they played and how people danced to it… It has contents you didn’t think you would need in your wedding video, but will find out later that you do.

There’s this common misconception I want to point out here. Nowadays most studios offer a short film and the “raw footage”. Many think raw footage is good for reliving the day, but it’s just hundred of clips sitting in a hard drive, not color graded, with only camera top audio, the quality sound tracks are in separate audio folders. The raw footage really needs to be edited to be enjoyed.

My 80’s format edit connects every clip I shoot from preparation to end of the reception with suitable transitions like fade in/out or cross dissolve. Background instrumental music/or music of your choice is added to montage segments like portrait session, scenery/decor shots. For the key moments like ceremony, entrance, main dances and speech, I do multi-camera edit to cut back and forth between two camera angles, with professionally recorded audio tracks. The entire video is color graded to film-look.

Besides the 80’s format edit, I can also cut short films and highlight. They are offered as optional add-ons and you can even decide if you like a short edit after your wedding; I keep your file open for at least 6 months.

Please check out the “pricing” page first. It outlines and briefly describes my filming service and types of edits I do and their costs. Then you can navigate to the rest of the pages to see samples of each type of edit.

Thank you for visiting and hope to hear from you!!