Making a wedding video is pretty easy these days. You don’t actually need any professional filming or sound recording skills on set. Just pick up the camera and start “watering”. However, it is worth noting that it is precisely such craftsmen who are born cringe wedding videos a la “let’s shoot the bride as if on her husband’s hand.” Probably, if at the moment of watching the parents of the bride and groom the Spanish shame does not seize, then they will recommend this unfortunate filmmaker to their friends out of spite. To laugh later and see that now not only they have such a bad video.
We recommend that before filming begins, you take at least short filmmaking courses at any film school so that you can perform video production and editing services at a high level. After them, you will be able to shoot a beautiful wedding video, but until that moment it’s better not to spoil people’s holiday. Of course, if this is your goal, you can shoot without training. In order to make a wedding video, you will need a camera with the longest operating time on one battery or a camera, a gimbal, a zoom lens, several voice recorders, arrogance and patience.
How to shoot a beautiful wedding video?
No way. According to our editors, it is simply impossible to shoot a beautiful wedding video in Moscow or anywhere else, because this genre has become obsolete. Like wedding contests, when a pencil needs to be lowered into the neck. The editor again seized with a fit of Spanish shame when he imagined this. A creepy idea gives birth to a creepy wedding video. We believe that it is necessary to shoot not wedding videos, but film about the life of characters who came to this through some events , obstacles and show the development of heroes in the process. Or take an unexpected turn at the end.
For example, divorce. I would watch this movie more than once. But if we are really making a wedding film, then what do we need for this? Just a creative couple, free from stereotypes, the main characters and their parents, friends and acquaintances have a budget and free time. Such shoots will take an average of 5 shifts with a full or half team. But at the end you will get a family movie that you are not ashamed to upload as video on YouTube and start a blogging career. Or show children how risky parents once were. Although we live in Belarus, which can be more risky.
Wedding video editing
If you have ever worked in Premier Pro or done color grading in DaVinci Resolve, then surely you can do wedding video editing. Perhaps you will even have a well-edited video that you will not be ashamed to show to relatives and friends. But if you have no experience, then most likely it will be a piece of kringe. To understand how to properly edit a wedding video, you need to work at least three weddings as a cameraman and editor. In this case, you will have an understanding of what to shoot, from what angles and what focal lengths to use.
Weddings are always romantic, slow movements of the characters, mostly a static camera or the most still from most of the frames. In addition, you have a very big responsibility, because here it is impossible to make another take if something went wrong. Proper editing of a wedding video includes the smoothest possible transitions. Glues must be either in form, or in movement, or through interference, or in music, if the first, second and third do not work. The light in this case cannot be installed, so it is important to work with an experienced operator. If you want to see works in other genres, then check out Instagram of our video production YOPSRT.
Where is the best place to shoot a wedding video?
If you choose a location for filming based on your sense of beauty, then you are acting incorrectly. First of all, you need to build on the script and select a location that matches the story. The location and the city should tell or show us something. The old city will show us something eternal or old, the modern city will show the dynamics and fussy nature of the characters. The director’s task here is not to make a mistake and not follow the lead of the main characters if they want a really worthy film. The ideal case is if they fully trust the production and listen to the advice of the pros.
If the customer has certain wishes about what their film should be like, then our team must take them into account in the final work and try to make the result as good as possible. I note that in professional video production company, the edited film turns out to be good in most cases. Of course, anything can happen, but often it is the small budget that causes a bad picture, especially the lack of good lighting. In the case of wedding shooting, good lighting is almost impossible to place on location, and only the skill of the cameraman will save your film.