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| Love Story Video |
| Offered in the Premium
Plus or Grand HD Package or by itself for $1.50
per photo |
| A great way to open
your wedding video. Your favorite pictures (growing up to current)
set to music of your choice and special effects transitions (dissolves,
wipes, animation, panning and slow zooming). Your Love Story
video can be shown at your reception and/or on delivered DVDs. A
22-inch wide widescreen monitor is available for playback at your
reception along with provided speakers and your video can be played
back during the reception continuously. If you want a wider screen,
you will need to obtain a projector with video input. The audio
can be connected to a DJ's sound system for all of your guests
to hear. Offered in the Premium
Plus and Grand HD Packages
(up to 100 pictures) or by itself in the other packages ($1.50
per picture). The Love Story video can be included on one of the
delivered DVDs or a separate DVD. |
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| Wedding Highlights |
| Offered in these packages: Premium
Plus and Grand HD |
This is a great way to open the wedding
video with upcoming scenes from the wedding. Set to wedding theme
music such as "Pachel Bel" or music
of the couple's choice; lasts about three minutes or so (hear just the
music). Can include:
- Nice animated wedding-themed graphic with couple's names and wedding
date.
- Couple at the altar facing the camcorder (during the photo session).
- Brief shots of the church building and the altar (including candles
and flowers).
- Transformation/Cinderella shot (bride transforming from her street clothes
to her wedding gown).
- Bride with bridesmaids.
- Groom and groomsmen shaking hands.
- Bride in dressing room looking into the mirror and/or making last
minute preparations.
- Guestbook attendant and organist/musicians.
- Brief shots of guests arriving, signing guestbook and being ushered to their
seats.
- Groom as he comes out with his groomsmen.
- Bride as she is escorted up the aisle.
- Bride as she is handed off to the Groom.
- Brief shots of the vows and ring exchange.
- Unity candle lighting.
- First kiss as a married couple (at the altar).
- Walking down the aisle together after the wedding. |
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| Pre-ceremony Coverage |
| Offered in all packages |
Footage can include:
- Bride and Groom's separate arrival at the church.
- Bride and her maid/matron of honor and bridesmaids'
conversations in the dressing room while putting on make-up, combing
hair and making last minute preparations.
- Bride sitting down and surrounded by her maid/matron
of honor and bridesmaids.
- Groom and best man and groomsmens' conversations in the dressing
room while getting ready and putting on boutonnieres.
- Groom shaking hands with best man and groomsmen.
- "Wow" shot of groom and bride seeing each
other for first time on their wedding day (great to see if photos
of bride and groom are taken before the wedding).
- The bride and groom separately expressing their love for each other
and how they feel before the wedding.
- Guest arrival.
- Guestbook attendant with a few guests signing the guestbook.
- Guests being ushered to their seats. |
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| Rehearsal |
| Offered in all packages |
| I normally attend the wedding rehearsal
to determine the best and accepted location for the main
camcorder (the balcony is preferred, but if there is no balcony,
I usually set up the camcorder on the right side to obtain footage
of the bride's face during the vows). I will ask permission from
the priest, minister or church wedding coordinator on where I can
position myself to tape the bridal procession (on the other side
of the front pew or halfway up the aisle and at the end of a pew). |
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| Wedding |
| Offered in all packages |
| Your wedding will be taped in its
entirety using, as a minimum, two camcorders (3-1/3 chip and 1-1/3
chip digital). One camcorder will be used to obtain bridal procession
footage and another will be mounted on a tripod shooting continuously.
A third camcorder (unmanned) can be added to shoot those hard-to-get shots such
as the unity candle lighting and only a few minutes of footage is required.
The need to place the the third camcorder (unmanned) can be determined at the
rehearsal. A manned camcorder can be added ($50.00 extra) to obtain another
camera angle throughout the wedding which can be incorporated during
editing (using dissolve transitions) along with footage from the
main camcorder. |
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| Wedding Photo Session Montage Video |
| Offered in all packages |
A visually pleasing video montage
(with dissolve transitions and music) of the couple, bridal party,
parents and other family members while their photos are being shot
by the photographer)
- As the photographer takes photos at the altar, I can
stand to the side, zoom in on the couple or a group, record, and
then zoom out slowly to a certain point until I see the full length
of the bride's dress or the entire group and then stop recording.
- During editing, I insert dissolve transitions between each scene
and set it all to music.
- The photo session is set to music (your choice, if
you like) and can be placed after the wedding and followed by the
reception highlights using the same music. |
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| Reception Highlights |
| Offered in these packages: Premium and
Premium Plus |
Just as with the wedding highlights,
you will see a preview of your reception set to lively wedding theme
music or music of your choice; lasts about three minutes.)
- Shot of the limousine (if used).
- Couple's departure from the church building and entering the limousine
or other vehicle) and leaving.
- Arrival at the reception location and couple leaving the vehicle.
- Cake and gifts.
- Grand Entrance (just the couple walking into the reception area
to the main table).
- Going to through the buffet line.
- Cake cutting.
- First dance.
- Bouquet and Garter Tossing. |
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| Reception |
| Offered in all packages |
Footage can include:
- Arrival at the reception.
- Grand entrance.
- Receiving line (if any).
- Guests waving at their tables.
- Toasts.
- Going through the buffet line (if any).
- Cake Cutting.
- First dance, parents' dance, bridal party dancing, guest dancing.
- Bouquet and Garter Tossing.
- Interviews (I try to get these whenever I can, but not during the
meal).
Shots I try to get whenever possible:
- Room for reception before guests arrive (camcorder pan shot; place in Reception
Highlights.
- Main table, if possible, before bridal party arrives (two views);
place in Reception Highlights.
- Standing at front of table, zoom in, start, slowly zoom out until
the entire table appears and then stop the camcorder.
- Standing at either side of the table zoom in on tableware at the
opposite side, start, slowly zoom out to show most of the table and then stop
the camcorder.
- Guest's table with tableware and other decorations (before guests sit down).
- Ice sculpture (if any).
- Buffet (before anyone is served).
- Displays. |
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