Tuesday 29 November 2011

Wedding Videos

Wedding videos are one of the best ways to remember your wedding ceremony for the rest of your life and also share it with your children and others who did not attend the ceremony. That special day that you joined your life with your partner can be kept forever and can be relived over and over. This is why it is essential that couples to hire a professional to record their wedding.

Wedding videos are meant to be beautiful and enthralling as the audience witnesses the joining of the couple during their ceremony, unfortunately many people simply do not have the experience or equipment to do the video justice. Poor equipment can lead to terrible video quality and sound quality. If there are vows being read, then it is essential to capture every word that is said however lower quality equipment will lead to those words being but a memory.

On top of butchering the recording of the actual ceremony, an inexperienced videographer will likely continue to ruin the video further throughout the development process. Titles, music, credits, and cuts between different scenes need to be handled with care to produce a high quality video that will not detract from the recorded ceremony, but enhance it.

Once couples determine who will be recording their wedding videos then they will then have to choose the style they want their video recorded in. The recording style will show off the personality of the bride and groom as well as add various different features (or lack of features) to the wedding video.
There are five different styles of wedding videos: cinematic, short form, traditional, storytelling, and documentary style.

Cinematic style – this style generally is akin to a real movie. The footage taken at the wedding is edited afterwards and the editor will use multiple techniques to make it seem more dramatic and more emotional. This style gives you the “wow” feeling that you simply don’t get with regular wedding videos.

Short form – the wedding videos that are done in short form style generally are between 15-50 minutes long and often times there is a lot of ‘unnecessary footage’ cut out.

Traditional – these wedding videos are generally those that are recorded by the family (or appear that way) and are generally only lightly edited. 

Storytelling style – this style is self-explanatory as it tells a story through various recordings from bride, groom, and others, that are added to the video and are used to help increase the dramatic effect and overall story that is portrayed.

Documentary – these videos are generally edited with clips in sequential order that portray the events of the day as they unfold.

When it comes to wedding videos there needs to be a lot of thought and planning that goes into them. Whether the bride and groom decide to go with a professional for a more polished look, or simply have a family member record it for them, the video will be their lasting memory of the day that they both took each other’s hands and faced the world together as one.

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