FAQs
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
1) Find someone whose samples intrigue you. If you cant watch more then twenty seconds of the companys samples, move on. This is your opportunity to have a film made all about you, so the vendors work should be in line with your tastes, and you should feel confident that their film is going to be something youre going to watch repeatedly. 2) Longer films do not equal better films. There are still a lot of companys that will deliver you a two hour wedding film on your DVDs. That doesnt mean that their final product is better than a twenty or thirty minute wedding film. The longer the film is, the harder it will be for you to show it off to your friends. Weve found that twenty to thirty minutes is the ideal length for a wedding film. No, youre not going to hear every word of every speech, or every minute of every dance, but youre going to see a highly polished and stylized film that is going to show you all of the poignant moments and keep you and everyone else interested. 3) Beware of the hired-out shooter! Make sure you have the opportunity to meet your actual camera person. A lot of bigger companies will hire out any old videographer to show up at your wedding. This just isnt a good way to produce a film. All of our shooters go through an extensive hiring and training process. All of our shooters are people we genuinely like, and whose work we greatly admire and are proud to put our name on. Youll always have the opportunity to meet your cinematographer, and we spend hours with our shooters preparing them with information about your particular wedding story before they ever start shooting. 4) Make sure your cinematography company is going to make you a wedding film. Obvious? Not always. There are videographers who are going to place a camera on a tripod, let it run, and give you a video with some slow motion and generic jazz music that youd never listen to outside of your wedding video. We take the approach that we are making a film about your wedding. We actively pursue shots during your day that will create scenes and that will properly depict the emotion of your day. We spend a lot of time in editing and put a tremendous amount of thought into the music that will pair best with your motion picture, and that youll love to hear. There are wedding videos, and there are wedding films. A wedding video is going to show you everything you want to see, but a wedding film is going to actually recreate the emotion and the story of the day.