You are a bride you must be. You're having a wedding soon. You have suppliers to reserve, invitations to send and cakes to taste. You have a lot to do, but when you are done, you have a deep breath and a stiff drink waiting for you. We know that planning your wedding is ultra stressful, and the less you have to worry about, the closer you are to that drink. So we thought we would weigh what we know and try to alleviate some guesswork leading up to your big day.
OK, we know you need flowers for your wedding - it's a florist we can not help there. You might be booking a band - can we suggest M C Hammer? (You probably should not listen to us). You will almost certainly hire a photographer, in which case we can come up with some great recommendations. But how about hiring someone to capture your day through sight and sound? Anyone want to make your day the next official Sundance election? How about booking a videographer?
The Wedding and Event Videographers Association reports that:
"Before their weddings, almost 50% of the brides mentioned videography as a Top 10 item. After the wedding, however, the weight changed dramatically. As many as 79% of the brides placed videography among their Top 10 items for wedding planning."
You might think that these statistics are rubbish if you simply can not imagine your wedding day without a video ... and we tend to agree with you. Unfortunately, however, this state is true, and we can not help but think that part of the reason it is true is that brides struggle with how to choose a wedding videographer. Understandable.
Here are ten things that are crucial when choosing a videographer. We hope they breathe new life into your understanding of wedding video and ultimately help you find a videographer who is right for you.
1. NO, look, that's how we do it ... what did you think?
The first and most important thing when choosing a Wedding videographer is to find out if their style matches yours. There are two main types of recording and editing of a wedding video: documentaries and movies. In a nutshell, documentary is a "hit record" mentality, and film is an "artistic" mentality. More literally, from a documentary point of view, your wedding video can end up being a few hours long and very "as it happened." With a movie style, your wedding video can be twenty minutes long and have a more exciting tempo, more stylized shots and a more artificial pairing of those shots with the music. Neither style is right nor wrong, they are simply different. At the end of this article, there is a link to a great little quiz that will help you decide which side of the fence you are on.
Even after choosing pages, you still need to dig into a company's bodywork. Let’s say you choose a movie editor. (We hope you do!) Each business has its own style, where they tend to shoot and edit. Which brings us to our next two points ...
2. Check EVERYTHING I have here.
This should be a matter of course, but if you hire a videographer, you should see examples of their work. No one would expect any healthy person to sit down and watch ALL of a company's videos, but watching more than a few of them is not a bad idea. After watching 4-5 videos (3-5 minute highlights are what we're talking about here ... this only takes about 20 minutes of your time), you get a feel for how the company shoots and edits. Many companies have professional looking images, but you will need to watch the videos yourself to get a feel for their movie editing capabilities.
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