Categories: Blog, Rants and NewsAuthor: philipwhiteweddingsIf you would have asked me a few years ago, would I ever consider filming a wedding? I would have laughed out loud. In fact, some people did ask, and I did indeed laugh. The thoughts of it were horrifying. Not because of the challenge or the technical aspect, but purely because my own pre-conceived ideas of wedding videos were that they were just pure tat. This changed somewhat when I discovered the results that a handful of new wave UK film makers were producing, not with camcorders, but with professional photography cameras switched to video mode. The ability to change lenses and to control depth of field meant that a truly cinematic look could be achieved without the million dollar price tag. The moment Canon added video functionality to their photography cameras was a moment that changed everything. The wedding video world would no longer be limited to the flat one dimensional videos that had been around for the previous three decades. With the ability to create visually stunning footage that wouldn’t look out of place in Hollywood, the possibilities would seem endless and the wedding industry could now prepare itself for an explosion of fresh talent, providing brides with their own cinematic masterpieces. However, three years on, I find that the internet is still full of wedding videographers that appear to have two feet firmly fixed in the eighties, weighed down by a giant camcorder permanently fixed to their shoulder.
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