Selecting the right wedding videographer is very important because
wedding videos hold special moments from your wedding day. Just like you
need to find the perfect wedding dress, it should be without question
that you need a quality wedding videographer.
Now I don't mean a
wedding videographer that asks Aunt Gretchen to say a few words about
her little niece Sharon who is all grown up. And I don't mean a wedding
videographer that likes to force everyone to smile in the middle of
dinner time because he is always in your face with that video camera.
Run from those wedding videographers.
The Right Wedding Videographer
During
my wedding, I was lucky to have a very efficient videographer. He was
unobtrusive (we hardly knew he was around), he didn't use crazy special
effects in his previous wedding videos and he had a demeanor that made
it easy to feel comfortable around him. Don't worry, the right wedding
videographer for you is out there. And once you find him, hold on tight
because he is an important part of your wedding budget and he (along
with the wedding photographer) has your once in your lifetime moments in
his hands. Make sure your wedding videographer is experienced. You
wouldn't believe how easy it is for someone to just call themselves a
videographer. Do you really want to be one of their early wedding video
mistakes? Our videographer had hundreds of video that my husband went
through with him during the consultation but even though he had done so
many wedding videos, our wedding video was still different from all the
others.
I just popped in my wedding DVD (that's right, I didn't
get my wedding video on VHS) in order to give you some important tips on
what to look for in your wedding videographer's portfolio. Yes, you
need to see the wedding videographer's portfolio.
The Wedding Videographer's Portfolio
You
need to make sure he hasn't done 1,000 wedding videos that are exactly
the opposite approach you want. It also matters if he clearly
understands what you want from him. Can he produce that? And has he done
that before? You don't have to see all his videos but you don't want to
see a video montage of what he thinks are his best clips. You want to
see what he has done from start to finish. See if the videos were steady
if he uses a hand held video camera instead of a tripod. Watch for
editing - do they make sense? Are you going from the wedding ceremony to
the reception or from the reception decorations to the ceremony? Has he
captured all of the members of the wedding party? Was he too slow and
didn't get the "here comes the bride" entrance? Where the close ups "too
close up"? Are you having an outdoor wedding? What if it is windy? Does
he have unobtrusive mikes for the wedding party? Or will you end up
with the sound of wind on the wedding video and muted voices? You also
want to be able to speak with happy clients from the wedding videos you
liked the most.
One Videographer or Two? One Video Camera or Two?
For
my wedding, we had one videographer with one handheld camera. Having a
second camera can help obtain extra points of view which may be needed
during editing and sometimes if the first camera man is unable to get a
shot, the second camera will hopefully be able to pick it up. Our
wedding videographer was experienced so we didn't feel like we needed a
second camera or videographer.
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