The most important types of wedding films that you must consider

Posted by adairsawyer on July 4th, 2013

When it comes to your big day and the options you have for writing it down on tape, you must be quite nervous. In order to get rid of those emotions and fears, you should really know your options in terms of wedding films. From plain to more sophisticated wedding cinematography exercises, you have to consider them all. Discuss with your videographer and determine what will best tell your story.

The classification of wedding videos can be performed by a several different criteria. The most important ones however would be the purpose of the video and the shooting respectively editing style. We shall begin with the purpose, in order to help you realize that there is more about this service than the classic wedding highlights.

If you are looking to have a unique reception and ceremony, you can introduce filming every now and then to spice things up. What would you say about creating a special short video for your guests, where you and your soon-to-be partner tell how the two of you met and fall in love? Or what if you would ask some of the dearest and most important guests of yours to come up with their love and good luck messages in a catchy wedding greetings video?

Moreover, throughout the entire day, you can opt for separate videos dedicated to the religious ceremony and to the reception. You could set up some pre ceremony wedding highlights, multiple camera highlights during the party and mandatory immortalize your first wedding dance. Because most wedding films focus on telling a story, if you want a story of your entire wedding, chances are it will turn out too concise. If, on the contrary, you split the most important moments into separate videos, chances are that you will enjoy them all even more.

Now obviously that apart from what you film, how you film is also essential. We have initially mentioned the term of wedding cinematography for a very good reason as it is used to define the highest filming standards. Take your options as a list that starts with the standard wedding documentary video and ends with the sophisticated, high-class cinematic wedding video. The first one tells the story of your wedding day while the second one can tell the story of your entire relationship – obviously, after hours of rough editing and adding special effects.

A cinematic wedding video can cut different sequences and give them continuity. It can introduce slow motion parts, alternate color with black and white images, add more visual effects to the initial raw footage, add a special soundtrack and many more.

All these considered, it becomes obvious that the duty of a professional videographer is to first capture as much as possible from everything and to make a piece of art out of it, later in his studio. Discussing how much editing you want and what kind of story you intend to tell is essential from the beginning of your collaboration.

Wedding cinematography is the essence of wedding films pushed further and further. Why not enjoy the most stunning wedding videos thanks to it?