12
January
2010

More and more couples are making a choice to get a professional marriage videographer to take videos of their wedding.  As the marriage video industry grows to accommodate this demand, the types of wedding video packages that are being offered are increasingly becoming personalized.  The most recent trend in marriage videos is the same day edit ( SDE ).

The same day edit is a short video, three to six minutes, taken of the preparations, ceremony and location shots.  Looking at the explanations why a SDE is becoming ever increasingly popular makes it glaringly obvious why every couple should get their wedding videographer to include this in their wedding video package.

Wedding videos are generally edited after the marriage and depending on the company you select to hire can take a couple of weeks before the final production is finished.  The fantastic thing about SDE videos is they are edited on your marriage day and can be screened at the reception. During the preparations and wedding ceremony the bride-to-be and groom as well as the guests miss out on a lot as their attention is focused some place else.  The majority of the guests will never be ready to see the whole marriage video once it is finished so a SDE is perfect for them to view everything that they missed out on during the day.

A well put together SDE will take all the highlights of the marriage day and provides an excellent chance to entertain and delight your wedding guests that might or might not have been part of the ceremony.  Can you imagine sitting down for dinner, on the most special day of your life, and as the first course is served the MC says a film screening will now take place?  No-one has any idea what’s going to happen next, the lights are dimmed, the music starts and the bride suddenly appears getting her makeup done, the moving images of the whole day’s events are then relived larger than life on the big screen.

Your family and guests are bound to be, not only impressed, but overjoyed at seeing highlights of the wedding day and catching a glimpse of themselves from footage only taken a few hours earlier.  This gives the bridal couple an opportunity to see themselves with all the emotion, nerves and merriment that is always part of the marriage ceremony.  Once the full length marriage video is finished, it is precious to observe the reaction of the bride and groom as they view their wedding day highlights.

Only the most professional wedding videographers will be ready to create a SDE that’s able to awe your visitors and family so take care that you hire a wedding videographer that’s able to give you SDE wedding video testimonials from prior clients.  Creating a professional SDE requires outstanding organizational abilities as well as the ability to work under masses of pressure.  That’s why when hiring a Sydney wedding videographer you want to make sure that they can back up their claims with these testimonials.

Professional marriage videographers are more than pleased to offer you answers to all your questions and go out of their way to demonstrate their work.  After all creating wedding videos is not simply a matter of pressing a button, it is all about being able to capture the emotions of the day and presenting them on video to delight you for years to come.


2
August
2008

You may have hired a professional videographer to take videos of your wedding. Do you need to get your friends and relatives to bring their own video cameras as well? Sometimes you may have funny occasions with certain members of the family, and the professional may not be able to capture that, or he or she may think that is not important. At the same time, you can have different parts of the wedding ceremony.

If you only depend on amateurs, you may get shaky footages, or the lighting may not be sufficient. Sometimes, the sound may not be crystal clear, and you can hear the cameraman or woman talking in the background. Certainly, it should not be the Blair Witch Project. The professionals will also be able to decide on the different angles to get the best shot.

Of course, there are methods to overcome that. With fanciful and easy to use video software, people can edit their own videos and add voice-over comments and music. If you are the one doing the entire video montage, then you can choose songs that fit your theme. This will definitely be fun.

If you can afford it, why not get a video camera to film your hen’s party, the wedding preparation and even your honeymoon apart from the wedding itself. After all, if you plan to have children in the future, your video camera will definitely come in handy for the numerous parties and performances.

I saw the Apple iMac video software, and I think it is pretty cool. Why not check out what’s available on the market.


31
July
2008

My friend had a video of her wedding made and she invited us over to her house a month after her wedding to show us the funny scenes when the groom came to fetch the bride. We made the groom eat wasabi bread and wax his legs with my friend’s initials. They danced and sang as well.

Having videos is quite a standard feature in weddings, where the happy moments are put together in a video on the day itself. When projected onto the screen, all the guests would get to share in the happy occasion. My mother’s friend’s husband got the son-in-law to practise a few taiji moves before he could pass the level to get to the bride’s room.

It is great to look back many years later and see the way you were on your wedding there, and the people who were there to celebrate the happy occasion.

You can get a professional to take a video. There are many videography packages in the market. However, if cost is an issue, or you have talented relatives or friends who love to make home videos, then get them to help you. If they have young children, then you can be rest assured that they are extremely proficient at making home videos.

After the wedding, you can edit the video or get a professional to create one from the various copies. You can keep or give or share with your friends and family. Throw a party like my friend, and we will get to watch the video together. Do edit the video as you don’t want your friends to feel they have to sit through a long video of every single thing.


10
October
2007

I found a wedding video of this guy, Sean, who got married recently. I think the song, She,?made the wedding video even more interesting. She I?m not sure whether the singer is Elvis Costello or Charles Aznavour, but the song is extremely romantic.

I think choosing appropriate songs to match the wedding videos and photo montages is quite important. I heard the song by Jolin Chua and David Tao sometime back at my friend?s wedding, and it was quite cute, but I would prefer to use a more romantic English oldie. The lyrics are below.


She
May be the face I can’t forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She
May be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day

She
May be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell

She
Who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one’s allowed to see them when they cry
She
May be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past
That I’ll remember till the day I die

She
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I’m alive
The one I’ll care for through the rough in ready years
Me
I’ll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I’ve got to be
The meaning of my life is

She
She, oh she