Our Videographers

          Brian MacKenzie

Brian is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces who spent seven years as a Combat Diver. A decorated soldier, Brian has worked on several humanitarian missions; whether he was picking up sandbags during the floods of Manitoba, or picking up unexploded bombs on his two tours to the former Yugoslavia.

After leaving the military, Brian attended Fanshawe College in London, Ontario for three years and earned his Internet Technologist diploma. During his time in college, Brian took up Mountain Unicycling, and has completed several grueling challenges on one wheel like the 170KM Ride For MS from Grand Bend to London and back, and completing 100 KM over technical, hilly singletrack as a solo rider on a 24 hour offroad mountainbike relay event.
Brian's interest in Extreme Unicycling led him to pick up videography and start producing nicely edited clips of his adventures. Before he knew it, he had produced two internationally distributed DVDs with his video work being featured on the Banff Film Festival World Tour, and being the number one featured video on YouTube. While producing these unicycling DVDs, Brian developed a filming technique not even reproduced in Hollywood. He is able to strap on his personal camera stabilization unit, mount his unicycle, and is able to capture the smoothest footage with a 360 degree view at speeds up to 20 KM/H over rough terrain, and through areas crowded with people or traffic.

Brian began filming wedding videos in London, Ontario since 2005 and was instantly hooked. He loves the excitement of the day, and in knowing that when teamed up with David Belne, they are going to create a beautiful memory that people will be enjoying for the rest of their lives . Brian and David have been working for years together, continually evolving their teamwork based approach, and investing back into the company with equipment that will be sure to make their next videos even better.

Brian is also the Director of Operations at Imaginethis Media Studios in Chatham where he handles website design, animation and green screen video production, while overseeing development of custom applications like interactive material selection systems for the housing industry.


          David Belne

David Belne has a musical background as a musician and vocalist. He was part of a rock ‘n roll band in England playing guitar the group was strictly instrumental and also in Canada in the late 60's in a group where he played guitar and sang lead as well as two-part and three-part harmony, the group was very successful in its short existence, playing at local clubs and also touring the East Coast of Canada. Music has and will always be part of David’s life. David has also been a commercial artist, artist, actor, photographer, sales representative and author as well as being involved with the Healing Arts.
He has been filming for the past 14 years which includes documentaries, weddings, musical concerts and working with local musicians. David looks at his life as if it were like an artist’s palette in which the various things that he has been creatively involved with are like the various colours on his palette in which he can use in creating and editing video. David has won awards in videography and his documentary “The Journey” has drawn much praise and received great press reviews. The film has been aired by Rogers Cable TV several times and has been archived with the National Library in Ottawa and the University Of Western Ontario.

David has been working on another documentary over the past three years, called “The Saint is Dead” about the life of The Hon. Henry Edward Dormer a British soldier who came to London Ontario in 1866 and died in the same year at the age of 21. The film includes 23 interviewed people who interweave throughout the film with their thoughts and extremely well documented historical material amassed by Peter John Adams his co-producer.


          Glidecam Operators For Hire

Balance Productions has two well seasoned Glidecam Operators available for your video production needs. We are able to provide you with high quality super smooth filming for use in your video productions. Whether it is walking, running, or moving quickly up and down stairs, we are able to capture great footage that will add to your productions.

We have developed a wide range of techniques over the years to maximize the benefits of these systems, and will be a tremendous asset to your production.

A note to our competition who produce wedding videos:
While we provide the same service as you, at the end of the day our goal is to have as many brides as happy as can be with their videos. We are available as 3rd camera operators, and will put as much passion into your wedding video as we do our own. Whether you need some extra shooters for a Same Day Edit, or you just want to add some Glidecam action to your wedding video production, we are available to work with your crew.

Contact us and we can tailor a package to suit your needs using our camera stabilization equipment

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