Recently, I have been asked to find a videographer to shoot the wedding video for #ofangieandstef and it has been a challenge, wading through the thick cheesy slush of video portfolios of the options I’ve seen so far. There seems to be a startling rigidity to which so many people stick to and I have begun to wonder what exactly binds these videographers to the format.
It’s definitely not cost because wedding videos are not exactly cheap so it got me wondering about the point of the video. Who is going to watch it? Why do you want to make these people watch it?
I am beginning to pick up more and more videography understanding and as I am learning the WHYs seemed to be asked a lot less.
So why, why do we need a video? What makes a wedding video something worth having and shooting?
Taking a leaf out of my daily work, I would want the video to tell the story of the couple more than the wedding itself no? Instead of slider shots of the dress, the shoes and what not. I don’t need to remember the details on the dress or my suit which will wear out in (hopefully) a couple of decades.
I want to remember the commitment, the sacrifices, the joy and the emotions of a life event worth celebrating with a couple of hundred of people. When the champagnes are popped and the flowers are dead, all that’s left is the journey of the two of us into the sacrament of marriage.
The beauty of a video is that it is able to bring you away from reality and immerse you into the moment captured on 24fps. And to make the video re-watchable, shouldn’t the video be a tool — a compass — that guides us back to each other from the stormy seas of life?
A true north that helps to remind ourselves of the reason why we started our journey in the first place. This is by no means an exhaustive exploration of what I hope the video will encompass but now let’s find a videographer first, shall we?
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