People have videos of their wedding made for several reasons. Once excellent reason is simply to cause those that weren’t lucky to be there a bit of jealousy. And if the wedding ceremony was held in the Bahamas or a foreign country, so much the better. The videographer can include outside location shots of the wedding location, fun recreational events that are taking place, and some of the areas unique points of interest.
Having a wedding video services produced is a perfect gift to give to yourselves as a newly married couple. How much is it worth? In the future, it’ll be priceless.
The advantages of a video over a photograph are many. Video can present events in a way that a photo simply can’t. A video can capture ambience. It can capture feelings. It can capture sound. It can make you feel almost like you’re at the ceremony. By contrast, a photo, is a point in time. It captures that moment, but doesn’t capture what went before or after that moment. It’s good to have both, and a lot of weddings do. But a wedding video really lets you truly relive the moment again.
The state and capabilities of video equipment has not stood still over the past ten year. Today, professional videographers using state of the art video equipment and editing tools can churn out amazing videos that rival those produced by the major studios. In addition, the new digital formats allow editing equipment to place all kinds of special effects into the video which would have been unheard of a few years ago.
You’ll want to know what type of format the video will be filmed in. Will it be in digital high def or will it be film. Digital technology will let an editor include really incredible transitions and special effects and navigation techniques.
If your photographer is different than your videographer, you want to get them both together so they can coordinate their schedules, shot setups, and so on. He’ll also need a schedule of what’s going on that day and exactly which parts of the day and ceremony he will be filming. You’ll especially need to let him know of any of the out of the ordinary special events that are happening that day that you want to capture on film.
As you are interviewing videographers, one of the questions you want to ask them is if they do the work themselves. Some videographers and video companies contract out a fair percentage of their work. So what you see in the sample videos, could or could not have been produced in-house. If you are paying the fee for them to do it, then they should do it and not farm the work out. The videographer contract will also specify how many DVD copies will be made, method of delivers, and so on.
A lot of video companies will have more than one camera at the wedding event. This is an advantage as they’ll be able to record multiple events happening at once. For example, during the actual ceremony, one camera will of course be trained on the bride. But you want to capture the reactions of the guests as well. So one or more cameras will be aimed at the wedding guests.
