One of the most important and happiest days of your life is going to be the day that you get wedded and so it is possible that you are going to desire to keep a record of it in the best available ways. So together with a set of competently taken photographs, you are also likely to want to have a video, or these days a DVD, of the event. And for this a professional videographer is the best way of ensuring a quality result.
Filming weddings is nothing original. For a long time the rich and famous have had their big days recorded on film for distribution throughout the world's news reels. As home cine cameras became fashionable, a friend or a relative would record the day's events for prosterity using unwieldy picture only cameras, which would make a low quality film that was displayed on the cine screen to the clamor of the projector. If any editing was done, it was a complex and labor-intensive procedure of cautiously cutting between image frames and sticking them back together again in order.
But even with the low quality of the final creation, the lack of sound and the amateur's clumsiness of getting in the way and not knowing the best ways to set up shots, they were very accepted. Looking back on old wedding films with favourite traditional music added to them can still bring back the tears to many. They were not at all planned as a stand-in to the traditional wedding photographs. Filming weddings is intended as a enhancement. An added way of recalling the delights of the day.
At some stage in the middle of the 1990s the digital camera came along and took the professional videographer from the days of 8mm tape into the digitial age. The cameras became smaller and more subtle and the professional was able to disappear out of the way at an event rather than being in the way all of the time.
With the enhancement in home computers and digital editing suits becoming accessible that enabled the painstaking editing and re-editing of every frame of the video, together with retouching of frames, addition of special effects to scenes and simple addition of music background tracks, the whole process of constructing a professional wedding video has enhanced drastically. No longer is a film of the wedding day the preserve of the rich and famous, an excellent recording of the day is something that every couple can afford.
You might question whether you could use all of these sophisticated techniques yourself to create a reasonable wedding video of your big day. You may even attempt to record some of it on your mobile phone. But one part of the process has not moved on from the days of celluloid. That is that an amateur recording remains just that. Unless you have the expert know-how and long standing knowledge of making the right shots, the finished product just won't quite have the result that a professional wedding video will have.
Author Resource:
Keith Lunt works in support of Impressions Video, who present a range of Wedding Videos Merseyside .
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