Wedding Videography for You – Pros and Cons

By U Learn It | February 25, 2009

Now you have selected a wedding venue, and we hope you selected a beautiful castle wedding you need to pick a wedding videographer to capture those memories. Sounds simple, but when you get stuck into it, your preference for the style and equipment must both be determined, as well as any extras that may be offered and it can get quite tricky.

Video production is one of the most sought after services of today. This kind of services has done well for wedding celebrations. Moments that you have not seen in your wedding, reactions and emotions are well captured because of the different arts applied in video production.

Modern technology has advanced the quality of the equipment dramatically and the end product is often a lavish, well edited and professional product that you will be both proud of and keen to view again and again.

Be sure to look at samples to see how steady the footage is, how well things are centered, what is captured and highlighted, and what the overall impression is. A good videographer will be able to pan and zoom smoothly and seamlessly, and can avoid any sudden movements.

A few good samples should be enough to get a sense of their style and professionalism. Be especially aware of companies that over-use effects – this can often be to compensate for poor camerawork and stylistically your video could look very dated within a few years.

Sample DVDs will give you the truest sense of what you can expect from a videographer and you shouldn’t book them unless you are satisfied with this.

Any established videographer will be able to send you at least 2 complete for your appraisal that are relevant to your type of event.

The commonest weakness in ‘home video’ is the cameraperson constantly panning the camera left to right and back again, zooming in and out, all in one shot, from one location. Zooming and panning should be very rarely used. Instead ask them to take a series of static shots, from a variety of angles (following the 30