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Wedding Video
Picture Worth A Thousand!
I’ve been married 9 years and can only think of one time we’ve taken out the wedding album whereas every year we look at the video. Why do still photographers often make several times the money that wedding videographers make? Our equipment costs a lot more, our training covers more disciplines and the editing takes more time. I produce broadcast TV and non-broadcast video and have only shot a few weddings because they seem to be more trouble than they’re worth. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a moving picture (with professional audio) ought to be worth a lot more don’t you think? -
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Because the stills album in actual book form is even faster and more non-linear than a DVD. You go right to the photos you want. I understand some high-end video wedding guys are now handing out video ipods to the couple, with the video, stills, and whatnot already on it; this seems to be very popular to take along and show folks as a “brag book”.
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what I question. Today, I will go over to the Disney wedding pavillion, where they charge more money to shoot a wedding than most of the “professionals” on these forums charge for a real video shoot.
You have wedding photographers that “work for free”, and you have guys that KNOW HOW TO CHARGE. Same in private production – be it corporate video, commercials, features, etc. Some guys KNOW HOW TO CHARGE, and some morons “give it away”. You will see a professional with a HVX-200 or Sony XDCamEX charging 10 times the amount (and getting it) over a “kid” whose mom bought him a Panasonic Varicam, and is booking himself, with the Varicam for $300 a a day, and whining on Creative Cow how much a FW800 drive costs.
It’s all about who you are dealing with. There are still photographers who work almost for free as well.
Bob Zelin
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I HATED doing weddings.
All I know is that this couple needed a better wedding videographer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Dan..you said it in the first line…a picture is worth a thousand words.
When people look back at their weddings they remember more dreamy memories, not the mechanics of the ceremony. Photos capture this way better than video in this instance. Many wedding videoographers cover ceremonies as events, not missing anything, leaving nothing to chance and nothing to the imagination.
Photography is more impressionistic, a great photographer can run rings around a great video person in this particular niche. Sort of like a great movie compared to a reality show. I don’t think I have seen a wedding video out-drama a well done wedding photo album.
There are some video producers who shoot weddings like a movie, with music, angles, drama, etc. This is better but I still think given a choice, for weddings most couples would choose a good photographer over a good video person. And because a photographer can instill much more drama in their work on what is an emotional day, they can charge way more.
I added professional commercial photography services to my studio years ago, I always tell people if you are a director with a good eye who wants to charge higher rates for a fraction of the workload compared to video, give photograph a try 😉
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Zane, I think they need more than a new wedding videographer.
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Excellent..now that’s what I call drama! 🙂
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High drama is not good for marriages. I predict they’ll be divorced within two years.
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Yea thats a Mormon wedding video. Mormons mary inside the Temple so there is no photography or filming of the ceremony. This makes for lots of cheesy wedding video.
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