Save money : Make ur own wedding video

Your wedding is the most important day in your life. Romance, love, family, friends, and celebration will all contribute to memories that you will cherish for a lifetime.

Your wedding video will capture the day and evening for you so that you will be able to relive your wedding day again and again, whenever you want ! Capturing the sights and sounds of your wedding is a job that many leave to a professional videographer.

There’s no question that if money is no object a good videographer can help to make your wedding a perfect day. The problem is that videographers have cornered a market that allows them to charge confiscatory rates for a job that you can easily handle yourself, saving a boat load of money, with a little help from a family member or friend, some basic equipment, and a few video tips.

Here’s a few tips on how to make your own wedding video:

Make sure that whoever is going to do the honors of shooting the video is familiar with the camcorder or equipment that you use. Have a checklist of all equipment that is needed at the ceremony and reception including fully charged batteries (have extras ) Check the equipment by shooting a minute or two with sound on in advance of the ceremony to make sure all the equipment is working.

• Avoid using cables or cords wherever possible. Portability of movement will allow your videographer to move about with ease, capturing all the action.

• Set up a tripod at the ceremny and reception to help with shooting scenes that are steady and clear.

• Check lighting and sound levels to make sure that your video and audio is being captured correctly

• Before the ceremony take some shots of the location and guests arriving

• Get some short interview clips of friends and family who will want to leave a special message for the newlyweds. This adds a wonderful personal touch to any wedding video

• Get shots of the ceremony, the reception and all the goings on from different angles to make the wedding video more interesting.

• Be sure to capture all the important points in the reception such as the wedding toasts, first dances and cutting of the wedding cake.

• Pan the crowd during the reception to capture the feel of the celebration.

• When in doubt take more rather than less video. You can always edit out excess footage later

Courtesy : M.Bruno