Wedding videography refers to the documenting of a wedding on video. Its final product which is commonly called a wedding video is also referred to as wedding movie or film. There are amateur and expert wedding videography levels that we need to distinguish from. Whether it is wedding, party, or corporate videography, you should keep in mind that this is a form of art and requires a lot of elements in the process. Some of these requirements are of human nature and we refer to commitment, passion and talent. Besides, this professional cannot be carried out without adequate gear.
Professional event videography can be traced back to the times before the advent of the modern video camera. In time, while film was the only way of ‘catching’ moving pictures, a few enterprising individuals took out the family 8mm camera and filmed the weddings of either family members or friends. The old film cameras had serious limitations in a number of elements like their short load times for the film, the high processing costs and the impossibility of recording the sound together with the images. The beginnings of professional wedding videography were quite primitive as the equipment was generally of low technical quality. Bright lights were necessary for the cameras; the pictures were fuzzy, the color saturation and the mono audio rendered pretty poor quality results.
Presently, professional wedding videography has reached an incredible level of development thanks to the variety of gear items. The length of the videos as well as the quality of both the image and sound, plus the special effects that can be added to the video, make the final result worth its costs and the effort put into making it.
In the field of professional wedding videography we can now talk about different styles. The most commonly used of them range from journalistic to cinematic. Thus we can count traditional and short form wedding videos, video journalism or cinematic storytelling. A skilled wedding videographer is not bound to using just one of these styles but, they mainly rely on variations and combinations. Professional wedding videography has come to develop and include numerous video production offerings. Thus there are: engagement videos, invitation DVDs, photo montages, love stories, concept videos, same day edits, bridal elegance and highlights.
