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10 Easy Tips for Making a Better Video
These ten ideas are practices and habits that any videographer should be thinking about – like a checklist – each time they are ready to go out on a shoot. These ideas apply for weddings, documentary shoots, video journalism,”behind the scenes” footage, event video, and generally anything outside of a major studio production.
Why Weddings are like Movie Sets: (formerly: Fostering Wedding Planner – Wedding Videographer Communication)
Wedding ceremonies and receptions are a lot like movie sets. While they may certainly differ in size, location, and budget, there are some very clear parallels.
Before the main event (ceremony or film shoot), multiple teams of people scurry about, setting up furniture, props, decorative elements, makeup and hair, wardrobe, lighting, sound, and other audio/visual gear. Then there’s the cast of characters- the bride and groom, the officiant, flower designers, catering staff, and the list goes on. If they’re not already working at the event, they are getting ready, even rehearsing their lines for the big moment.
If a wedding was a movie set, the wedding planner would be The Producer. It’s their job to carefully set up a framework for executing a perfect event, holding the “big picture” in mind while being on top of every last detail, keeping it all on or under budget.
A good producer clearly communicates what they want to all of the vendors that are contributing to the success of their production. This includes the videographer. Having done more weddings than usual in recent months, we’ve noticed a few things that *must* be considered by both wedding planners and wedding videographers before arrival to the location on the big day.
5 Tips after the jump…
“CASE STUDY: Social Media Marketing for a Nonprofit”
Noni Films & Media has shifted into a higher gear lately. Over the last week, we’ve been multi-tasking, to say the least. We’ve been re-writing scripts and creating shotlists for the training video we’re about to shoot/edit for a local outdoor adventure company. In addition, we were on a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles, to document the comeback of a recording artist and performer as a new chapter in a documentary project we’ve been c0-producing with Ready Set Go! since 2002. Backstage moments, and full-coverage concert footage with a mixed audio line direct from the sound board. Big news after an almost 5-year break from filming.
We’ve also been spending time on behalf of Noni Films & Media as a media/marketing sponsor for The Jungle to Jungle Project. A traveling education and technology project down the Amazon River involving HD video, Twitter Feeds, and almost real-time blogging needs to come with it’s own instruction manual. It’s a book that is still being written as many new technology tools allow the modern nomad to stay in touch with his/her following, and organizations do their best to harness their inherent powers.
Speaking of books, using the word “following” evokes ideas from Seth Godin ‘s “Tribes” (recommended in audiobook form from audible.com). To put it in that context, we’re helping Jungle to Jungle connect with their tribe, whomever and wherever they might be, so that they can lead our global community to embrace exploration, the wonders of natural sciences, and technology.
Let’s see what we’ve learned: (more…)
Redefining the Wedding Video: A Love Story
Its the most special day of many people’s lives: their Wedding Day. All around the world, an average of 115,000 couples “tie the knot”, every single day.
After spending weeks, months, even years planning and daydreaming about the moment they marry their true love, brides and grooms (and even family members) who have been swept up in the preparations and anticipation always report that the main event went by in the blink of an eye. While using a still photographer to capture special moments helps bring back memories, nothing quite does it like video.
Bryan & Aiyana Emily, May 10, 2009, the Haiku Mill, Maui
But there’s a challenge that comes along with that marriages-per-day statistic: it means there are a lot of weddings to be shot, edited, and distributed. It definitely takes more people and more time and effort to complete a good wedding video – and it should. There is no sign that those wedding statistics will decrease, but there is often the possibility that a videographer is already focusing on the next wedding before the first one is edited. That is why it is important for both the couple and the videographer to take special care in the making of a wedding video.
Here are a few things wedding videographers do to raise the bar:
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