Insider Tricks for Making Wedding Videos

Insider Tricks for Making Wedding Videos: If you have been recruited to make someone's wedding and reception video, it can be a very pleasant job. Not only is there a lot of excitement, laughter and good times during the wedding celebration but it's also very nice to know that the videos you make will be part of the family celebrations of these people over the coming decades.

Insider Tricks for Making Wedding Videos

Naturally, you want to do a good job. But whether you have just started or have been videotaping for years, you know things can slip on you and make your work more difficult. So there are some "insider tricks" that you have to remember especially on a big day so that the wedding lasts like a clock and you get good videos without disturbing family fun and pleasure.

Some of the first precautions actually occur long before you go to church and that is a thorough inspection of equipment. Check and recheck your equipment and check again. It doesn't hurt to be a little compulsive about this. Also, check that all your supplies are new, in good condition, and that you have any backup batteries, lights, tapes, or recording media that you use. If you know your equipment is in good condition, you can walk there like your professional.

Next, be everywhere early and ready. In fact, it never hurts to loosen the church and reception room the day before to check lighting and do planning where you might plan to get the best videos from. If Martin Scorsese can plan all the shoots, you can too.

Now make sure everyone knows who you are. Meet the bride, groom, wedding party and others who are close to planning. If there are security guards, make sure they know who you are too. If there is a need for a pass or badge of any kind, make sure you have it before the wedding.

Part of networking with key players includes getting free time with other people who might support marriage. Many marriages have a wedding planner who must know everything that will happen. Make sure he knows who you are and what you will do before you start disrupting their domain. It's also a good idea to meet other photographers and do a little preliminary choreography so that everyone can get their shot. Know that you really don't want to do a very good job at videotaping weddings so you spoil the experience of the wedding guests. This all requires a lot of planning.

If they practice, you practice. This exercise is one of the great opportunities missed by photographers and wedding videographers to go through a wedding with a party and plan where you will go. Now secure permission to be there because you never want to surprise a nervous bride or her mother. But if they know that you work as hard as they can to get ready, they will be happy and you may find they give you direction to the shots they want to include in the video and where they want (and don't want) you to be at strategic moments during the wedding. This information is very valuable for producing high-quality videos for your customers.

After everything is ready, go in there and enjoy a marriage with everyone. You know you are ready and you like what you do so you can celebrate this big day and produce a top-class video that will be a precious memory for this bride and groom for years to come.

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