My Wedding Night Video
Published December 2, 2011 | 
Shooting a wedding night video is a difficult job, because by night, you benefit of artificial light, which is not that good for a digital camera; I mean you can shoot better images by day, when light is provided directly by the Sun. However, you have to deal with the thought that you're not alone. If you are a professional videographer, I believe you will have no problems in shooting a wedding video, being it by night or by day. You have to think that many colleagues are in the same situation with you; after all, the wedding party is usually held in a restaurant, where you have artificial light or if it is held outdoors, it happens mostly during nighttime.
Also, those that shoot night scenes for movies have to deal with the same problems that you may experience. Because many locations where wedding parties happen do not feature ample electricity, it is recommended to carry a small generator with you and illuminate the exact locations you want to capture on camera. This can force the happy couple to pay you a little more, but the wedding video will look much better because the images will be clear. The main problem that a generator can “generate” is that it produces a lot of noise. This is not a problem, because it can be edited, but what happens if the bride or groom wants to hear the exact noise from the wedding. And when they say “from the wedding”, they don't actually mean your generator. They would prefer to have a little blurred images that hearing the sound provided by the generator.
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So you can avoid to carry a product like this with you and also to reduce their bill. Unfortunately, you will have to go there with something that provides artificial light; you can use flashlights. Some of them are really powerful. For this, you would have to place them in the correct position and leave them there untouched, so that you can shoot that scene.
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You have to take the time to create a gentle blue wash for your scenes, otherwise the lighting will appear artificial, as it really is, when you will edit the video. If you use professional software, advanced enough to let you make huge adjustments, you don't have to worry about this.
When you are at the wedding venue, you have to start with the best light situations possible and then move to other seems, that you can edit at the computer. Creating a perfect wedding video is a process that usually takes a lot of time and practice. We hope that with our advice, this is easier.
British Wedding Video
Published December 1, 2011 | Those searching for a videography company in the United Kingdom can search on Google for companies that provide this type of services. I have entered wedding-videos-uk.com and I have to say that I'm pretty pleased with the services this company says it offers.
British Wedding Video (Source: perfect-wedding-day.com)
I will start by presenting the price of the basic service offered by the company who has the site mentioned earlier. I know that this interests you, especially now with the economic crisis and all. The cost of the basic service is of 945 GBP. For this price, you will receive 3 DVD copies with personalized cover. However, if you plan to get married in 2012, you have to know that the prices will go a little up: 995 GBP for the basic service. You would have to make a deposit of 50 GBP before ordering the basic package. This amount of money will be deducted from your final bill.
British Wedding Video (Source: wedding-flowers-advice.co.uk)
But what does this service include? Like in the case of other videography companies that offer wedding video services, a basic package includes the use of 2 cameras. The arrival of the bride will be captured on film, just like the arrival of guests before ceremony. The soundtrack can be selected by yourself. If not, it will be added to the wedding video by professionals working for this company. The wedding ceremony can be filmed as well, if this is allowed by the Church. Signing of the register is another operation that needs permission. The stir happening immediately after the ceremony will be captured on tape as well. The reception and greeting of the guests, the speeches, the first dance and the cutting of the cake procedure, all these special moments will continue forever, because they will not be missed by these professional videographers.
Note that this basic package includes filming of the first 3 dances or up until 9 PM, whichever comes first. In other words, if you haven't played some music until 9 PM, thus no one has danced, the later dances will not appear on tape, because you haven't paid for additional services. At a wedding, anything can happen, this is why the professional videographers accept the idea that they can receive orders to stay longer and film the people dancing after 9 PM, if the music starts playing after that hour. You may have planned everything, but if something wrong happens with the band that sings at your wedding, you will have to deal with the new situation and improvise along with it.
Mass Wedding Video
Published November 30, 2011 | Shooting a mass wedding video is as difficult as focusing on the happy couple or on certain details, like the pearls on the bride’s dress or the tears in the eyes of her mother. Videotaping a wedding is not the easiest thing to do at a wedding. This is why before saying the videographer has an easy task, you better read this article to see what this is all about.
It is preferable to have a wedding in the summertime, but if you are a professional videographer, you have to do your job all year long, and if you live in a location where you have spring, summer, autumn and winter, you have to deal with the thought that at a certain moment, you will have to shoot videos in the wintertime as well. Being a professional doesn't necessary mean you know all the tricks of this profession. For example, you probably had no idea (I'm talking to the amateurs right now) that you have to use a camcorder for shooting a wedding video during the summer season and another type of camcorder for shooting winter events.
Mass Wedding Video (Source: waterviewvenue.com.au)
Let's imagine that the wedding day has come and you are supposed to deliver a great wedding video, when the wedding is history. To be capable of doing this, you have to discuss with the people at the wedding to stay away from the fixed cameras. You don't want the video to be filled only with images showing people that walk around for no particular reasons. It is harder to control the kids, but you can at least try to speak with their parents. The cameras are not placed there so that they can make faces in front of them.
Mass Wedding Video (Source: scottishweddinghq.co.uk)
Shooting a wedding video is always an intense boot camp, especially when there are tens of people present at the event. You have to be attentive not only to record good images, but also to capture great audio files. When you will edit the video, you can add the soundtrack you want or the one that the happy couple selected, but when you are at the wedding, you don't know exactly what parts of the video are going to have another soundtrack, than the one with all the noises and music songs from the actual wedding.
Camcorders usually function on batteries, so if you don't want to have an unpleasant surprise, which is to remain without batteries or electric power, you must have with you several spare batteries. Also, you have to take several tapes, depending on length of the day.
Video Of Wedding Night
Published November 28, 2011 | A wedding party is mostly celebrated during night time, this is why when you hire a videography company, you have to mention if your wedding will be held outdoors or inside a restaurant. If the videographers will benefit of artificial light, they will find it easier to shoot the wedding video, but if they will have to deal with the night only, they will have to use specialized equipment.
There are so many occasions that you have to shoot at night during a wedding. For example, if the happy couple decides to perform their first dance together outside and if unfortunately for you, it is already night, you have to use the night scene mode of your camcorder. This slows down your shutter speed and increases the exposure time. In this way, the background will look brighter.
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However, possessing a high advanced camcorder doesn't offer you the best quality video. You have to be talented at this. Be careful, because automatic settings don't provide in all cases, the best images. Sometimes, you have to set them manually. For example, you can set the shutter speed. You can gain control by performing these operations by yourself. So switch your camera to manual mode and set the shutter speed as you want. If you are a professional videographer, you know what speed to select, depending on how much light you get from the wedding venue. If you are an amateur, when you are at the location, try different speeds and see which of them offers you the best images under the lighting conditions found there. During an entire night, you will have to change the shutter speed more times.
Video Of Wedding Night (Source: weddingdecorationsblog.com)
When shooting videos at night, you want to benefit of how much light you can get. This is why it is recommended to use wide angles when shooting, these ones allowing the light to enter better the camcorder, providing better results than when using regular or small angles. At the same time, it would be preferable to forget to zoom. At the wedding ceremony, which is performed by day, you can zoom as much as you want, but by night this operation reduces the amount of light entering your camcorder. The result? Very dark videos. So if you want to shoot something extremely close, you have to move there along with your camera.
By night, it is recommended to use a tripod and provide more fixed images than moving ones. Because lightbulbs can generate various intensities of light, when you move with your portable camera, you may obtain blurred images.
Wedding Couples Video
Published November 28, 2011 | Just like there is an etiquette for wearing your engagement ring on your wedding day, there is also an etiquette for capturing video moments from your wedding. This etiquette must be known especially by the videographer, then by the happy couple; nevertheless, if you address a friend to shoot that video, you have to provide him with everything you want to appear in the video and also with several pieces of advice. You don't want to disturb your guests with uncomfortable photos or videos with them.
Wedding Couples Video (Source: a-wedding-reception.com)
There are certain questions that must be taken into account before hiring a videography company to shoot the video of your wedding. One of these questions may refer to what the videographer has to surprise on the camera. The couple must mingle among the guests; they had to appear as being happy. It would be preferable for them to emphasize a real happiness feeling. Even though you may not believe, but when you are not happy, this can be seen on camera. And you don't want your children to see that you were unhappy at your wedding. If there is an unfortunate event happening right before your wedding, if you simply cannot be happy at the wedding, you better cancel it, than be unhappy. And I am not talking only about the emotions captured by the camera. You have to think of yourself. If you have a health problem or worse (let's not even mention the potential problems), it is more than preferable to cancel the wedding and to organize it again when you will be suitable for it.
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Another question refers to the family portraits. This is mainly related to photographers, not videographers, but because nowadays, the videos become more important than still images, we will mention family portraits in this article too. The question is regarding your friends. If you don't have a family or if they are not present at your wedding, you can indeed use your friends in a family portrait. But if your family is present, the friends are out.
Who is responsible for paying the wedding album and also the videographer? I don't know if you had any idea, but the bride’s parents must pay for the wedding ceremony, reception and photography/videography. This is extended to all the albums created for the important guests present at the wedding. In other words, if you have the mayor at your wedding and if you want to offer him a wedding album from your wedding, the bride’s parents will pay for that too.
Video Broadcast Wedding
Published November 26, 2011 | Creating a wedding video is not catchy anymore; if you don't broadcast your wedding to those that are not able to come to your wedding, you're not trendy these days. Luckily, there are companies that offer services like these. I believe that this type of services appeared when a videography company has released them on market. When the happy couples have seen that this kind of thing is actually possible, they have started to ask for this more than before.
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If you can address one of your friends or relatives to video tape your wedding, most likely you will not be capable of addressing your friends to broadcast your wedding. To do this, you have to select a frequency that will be captured by the TVs of those relatives and friends that stay at home and watch your wedding. If you are not a celebrity and your wedding is not broadcasted on the main television channels, you have to find a certain frequency, that is free that day and that can be used by yourself in order to broadcast your wedding. I believe that you can do the same thing with a radio station, only that a wedding is seen much better on a TV. Who wants to hear a wedding? It is more interesting to see it.
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The broadcast of a wedding is something different than the DVD that will present the most interesting moments during the wedding. If a wedding takes more than 18 hours, most likely you will not record 18 hours, unless you ask one of your friends to do this. Even though the videographers will stay at your side during the whole event, the CD or DVD that you will receive weeks after the happy event, will contain in general less than 3 hours from that event. Not mentioning that the beginning and the ending of the CD will present information related to the bride and groom, their parents, the godparents, the location and other interesting facts, as they were chosen by the happy couple.
In order to benefit of a spectacular wedding video, you have to arrange a consultation with a specialized company and to provide that professionals with every detail required by them. If you decide to broadcast your wedding, you would have to “rent” a certain frequency for a certain day, your special day, when you will get married. And if you really want to satisfy the relatives that are not able to come to your wedding, you should see if they can receive the signal from your frequency. You don't want to broadcast to other people than your friends and relatives.
Video Of Wedding
Published November 25, 2011 | When the future wives are asked to name a thing that they shouldn't miss while organizing their wedding, they say: Have your wedding videotaped! If you are curious about this, here are some true facts taken from weddingdetails.com related to wedding videos.
It is considered that 98% of the married couples recommend to have the wedding videotaped. In general this is a duty of the groom; he discusses with the videographer where to place the fixed cameras, what are the most important moments during the wedding, he introduces the videographer to his parents, the parents of his future wife, the godparents and other important guests, so that the camera to focus on them during the happy event and in general performs the rest of the activities that require a wedding to be perfect.
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Brides don't appreciate the value of a video until after the happy event, even if they see wedding video samples before the wedding. It is reported that before the wedding, 52% of the future wives say they would prefer a video, but this is not a top 10 service needed for the wedding. It is strange how this thing changes after the wedding, when they place the wedding video at number one in the top 10 operations or duties you have to take into consideration when planning your wedding.
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38% of the brides that were interviewed for a survey have said that they haven't used the services of a videographer, nor they have videotaped their wedding. Probably this percent is provided by the fact that many old women were also included in this survey. And we all know that 30 or 40 years ago, people didn't use video cameras to capture the moments at a wedding. Of all the 38% of these brides, 68% recommend the future married couple to hire a professional videographer for their wedding. Or if they don't have the money, at least to have their wedding videotaped. This is a precious memory and you should not waste it, especially nowadays, when we have the benefit of using so many technologies.
The happy couples that have used the services of a videographer say this is a good thing to do during the wedding, because a wedding video captures the emotions of the day and records the history on storage devices that will be further used by the children of the happy couple, now marrying. They think again of their future children, when they say a wedding video creates a visual memory for the children to enjoy. 61% of young brides have said that, if they would have the possibility, they would watch the wedding video of their grandparents.
Wedding Video Samples
Published November 24, 2011 | Why choose to have a wedding video? Because a video is something that allows you to save and protect one of the most precious moments in your life, exactly as it happened. And what is more important than looking at photos? Watching a nice video, that's right.
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The event goes by extremely quickly and capturing all the activities performed at your wedding require a whole army of professionals. If you don't have the money to address specialized videographers, you should discuss with one of your relatives. The disadvantage is that most likely you will have to provide that person with a digital camera, capable of recording as well, not only of taking photos. The problem is that if you ask someone to do this, it means that he/she is not going to enjoy the party as a regular guest. He/she will be always preoccupied if the light falls down perfectly on the wedding dress, if the music is captured properly by the microphones, if the angles are correct and other little details, that everyone can take into consideration when filming an event of this size, even if he/she is not a professional.
Wedding Video Samples (Source: a-wedding-reception.com)
However, I recommend a professionally produced wedding video, because the specialists will come with their own equipment, they have abilities of editing your video far better than the ones had by yourself (if you plan to edit the video by yourself, along with your partner), they have more experience and know the technologies used nowadays to capture the best wedding moments. The choices in professional wedding videography are unlimited. All that remains to be done is to have a suitable budget for this operation and to discuss with the videographer you hire about every aspect from your wedding. Even though you don’t know how the wedding party will be like, you have to come up with a plan to capture the most beautiful images. You can rehearse the ceremony, if not the entire wedding, to be sure that it will be perfect. So the discussions between you and the videographer will be based on the things you plan to happen or that you would like to happen.
To be certain that you will benefit of quality services, my recommendation is to enter various sites (there are plenty on the Internet) and check out the video samples. In general, they last for 2 or 3 minutes and show something about how a wedding video looks like. Another method of seeing wedding samples and even full wedding videos is to enter YouTube, search for professional wedding videos and select from the large range there is, the specialist you like most.
Video Wedding Night
Published November 23, 2011 | Professional videography saves the most important moments from your wedding and protects beautiful captures for years. If you want to benefit of quality services, before the happy event, about 9 months in advance or so, you should start searching for specialized videographers.
Because the wedding party will be held at night, you have to trust the company you hire that they have the proper equipment to capture moving images at night as well. By day, there should not be any problems, but by night, there can be problems generated by the artificial light. But if we are discussing about professionals, most likely they will know how to handle this problem. After all, inside television studios, there is only artificial light and the images presented on TV are extremely good.
When you want to hire a professional videographer, you have to keep in mind several questions. For example, you have to discuss with him about the possibility of using your preferred music as the soundtrack of the wedding video. If you cannot communicate with him, because he thinks that he is right and you are not, you should address another videographer. Other questions that can be asked are related to the number of cameras used by the videographer. If he comes with some friends or colleagues, he has the possibility of using multiple cameras; if not, he will use a single camera and probably one or two fixed cameras.
Video Wedding Night (Source: weddingreceptiondecoratingideas.net)
Other aspects of the wedding video should refer to the montage of stills and slow motion scenes, the titles and narration provided by the professional videographer that you hire, the style of the video, the number of DVDs that you will receive from him, the amount of money required for these services and others.
Video Wedding Night (Source: completelyweddings.com)
Whether you want to have a classic wedding video, a story-telling approach or a fast-paced, highly-stylized, just like you see on MTV, you can be sure that your wedding video will be as you wanted, if it is made by a professional.
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The wedding video starts in general with the story behind your engagement. There are cases in which a video like this covers the rehearsal done before the wedding, contains congratulations from members of the families invited at the wedding, friends or acquaintances and a short video montage combining childhood images (they can be photos as well, not only moving pictures) with engagement photos and other memories of the bride and groom.
From simple to complex, a wedding video has unlimited options nowadays. Because we have so many possibilities of creating amazing things, shooting your video at night won't be a problem.
Wedding Video Music
Published November 22, 2011 | Those that deal with the editing of wedding videos must know very well the music tracks that can be used for a wedding video. In general, they use different tracks, not the ones that were played at the event. However, there are sections of the video which contain the exact music that was played during the wedding. The beginning and ending of a wedding video start usually with a romantic song.
If the music played at the venue is selected to be played in some sections of the video as well, it is edited, because even if you use the best microphones, you cannot prevent the voices of those dancing or chatting to not be heard as well. This is done only with specific software programs.
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Now, the question that arises is whether you should hire a disc jockey, a famous musician/singer, if you have the money or to play the music using an MP3 player. You can make your wedding day much more special by hiring people that are willing to perform live. A live band is always more appreciated than the sounds coming from a CD/DVD player. In general, this choice comes to personal preference, but my recommendation is to use a live band, even if the members are not that famous. As long as they have warm voices, they will be greatly appreciated by the audience.
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Some songs that can be taken into account as the main soundtrack of a wedding video or simply as wedding songs can be found on these albums: “A Day to Remember – Instrumental Music for Your Wedding Day” by O’Neill Brothers, “Party Line Dances: Shawn Trautman's Learn to Dance Series” and “Classical Wedding” by various artists.
A good moment to capture on tape is the dance of the marrying couple. If you are willing to learn an elegant and romantic dance, most likely you will leave your guests without breath. Make a memorable impression on everyone at your wedding, by letting them feel you are confident about dancing. At the same time, make sure that your partner knows the steps, if you want to create an outstanding opinion about you two.
Have you ever wondered what’s going on in the case of a wedding where the groom/bride is a singer? In this situation, the singer most likely performs one or two of his songs. The good thing about these weddings is that the singer that is marrying has friends other musicians, so the wedding will be just another happy event, where they get together and do what they like best, they sing.
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