As you tailor your expectations and
budget to meet your wedding
planning needs, consider the following wedding video tips:
- Sound techniques and lighting are
important. If the sound can’t be heard, your video is a “silent film.” And if
the lighting is too dark or too bright, it’s just radio.
- Video montages can splice together
baby pictures, school images, candid shots and wedding out-takes to be played
at your reception and added to the master wedding video.
- You can have pre-wedding events like
dress fittings, showers, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and the rehearsal
dinner recorded and included in the final product.
- One of the more unique wedding video
tips is to have honeymoon photographs or video footage added to your master
wedding video.
- Find a professional wedding
videographer you’re comfortable with.
- Assure that the videographer uses
quality equipment, including wireless microphones, low-light technology and
unmanned cameras, when necessary.
- Choose someone with experience
working at weddings.
- Discuss the editing process in
detail — what special effects, animation and musical score will be used.
- Your videographer should try to be
unobtrusive, taking the “fly on the wall” approach. If he or she lacks the
technology to do this, consider booking a different wedding videographer.
- A standard wedding video can yield
12 hours and more of footage. To turn it into a finished two-hour video tape or
DVD requires as much as 20 to 40 hours of editing time.
Lastly, (and most importantly) put
the details in writing. The contract should cover the time, date, location,
types of shots, fees, editing time, number of copies and delivery date. Other
aspects to discuss include appropriate dress, meals and travel costs.