Get the right company to video your wedding!!!

steve · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2

Finding the right company to film your day is important, why?
well, you could get a friend to grab his camera and mooch about, even the most enthusiastic will miss tons of important footage.

A professional ?
Of course!

Why should you spend money on a professional?
Because, the right company will have the experience to be able to understand the mechanics of the day, not only am I talking about where to be at the right time to make sure you have the right clips, but more importantly, the right emotions.

Once you have instructed a company to film your big day, when you watch it back, (if you have chosen well), you should feel a tingle run up through your body, up the back of your neck, which is then followed by a welling up feeling, then tears, but tears in a good way, because what you have just felt is the emotion of reliving the day as you remembered it and more, it is your closest family and friends, couple that with the music you and your partner have chosen in the background, you know, that feeling you had when you watched 'love actually'!

That is when you have chosen the right company.

Good Luck and the best tip for you on the day when you have found the right company........ BE YOURSELF!

weddingdaze · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 2

I think that the wedding day is something that is individually experienced depending on your role on the day. The bride and groom will obviously recall it with romance and heart felt emotion, while their colleagues will remember it as a damn good party. I have watched wedding videos before and nearly experienced projectile vomiting because of its over emphisis on fairytale romance that only a six year old little girl would appreciate. Surely an ideal wedding video is capturing on film the unposed kisses, the natural laughter and the silliness on the dancefloor, not turning it into an overexcited episode of Dallas.

steve · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2

Yes, while I agree with the first part of your comment, about friends recalling the day, and the same for the Bride & Groom.

When I expressed how they feel when they watch it back,
I obviously made the mistake of NOT mentioning how that feeling was captured in the first place.
For me personally, for over 20 years, I have always believed it HAS to be unposed and natural, it is the only way to give the couple back that emotion, NATURALLY, you absolutely cannot pose emotion, even the hollywood actors find it difficult (did you see Ben and J Lo's film!!)

Unobtrusive filming is the key to the whole day, while it seems to me our first post is trying undermine the end result by saying it like watching an overexcited episode of Dallas, what the hell has an episode of an American 80's tv series about and oil family got to do with capturing real people and their friends and family, having (what one would hope) having the best day of their life?
I do agree that a lot of wedding videos' I have watched over the years have been how the post described, but whatever you say do not imply that I am suggesting this is how it should be, far, far from it.

My point originally was and is, to make sure that it is captured as I described in an unobtrusive way, the whole day should be natural, not one bit staged for the film, but the end result should have all the elements of the obvious AND emotional content, which is constructed mostly from all the natural behaviour and partly from an experienced, unobtrusive, camera operator who has total awareness of why he/she is their in the first place, to create a film that will become more valuable to the couple as time passes.

Yes, you could hire a company who will have great 'Digital quality' etc; etc; and they turn up and point and shoot and edit it and the client will end up with all that, then nothing in the emotion department. That is all.

weddingdaze · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 2

Steve. You are obviously passionate about your work and this is a good thing. My description of previous wedding videos that I have seen are not supposed to have any bearing on your work, indeed from what you have said you have the balance right. I think you used the key word which is natural, thats what weddings are about these days be it photography, video, flowers etc.

Mind you everybody likes different things. Did anyone see that programme that was on a while ago now 'weddings from hell' or one of those type things. One couple had their wedding video made into a pop video the same as the group 'Steps' to the tune of 'tragedy'!!! and it was

CLASSIC

sweetie · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

Yep I saw that too the marriage didn't last very long either only a few months if i remember rightly.

tinkerbell · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 4

remind me not to upset steve. strange guy

wanda · Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

I am not sure about getting my wedding filmed, is it essential? I was just going to have a good photographer and a large albumn of pictures. Is this ok or will i look a bit cheap?

bamby · Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

sounds ok to me wanda. We are lucky my uncle is a proffesional so he is doing our video. I think its nice to have a video if you can but if your budget is a bit tight then that for me would be one of the first things to go