Author : Keith Lunt

One of the most important and happiest days of your life is going to be the day that you get wedded and so it is possible that you are going to want to hang on to a record of it in the best available ways So along with a set of professionally taken photographs, you are also likely to want to have a video, or these days a DVD, of the event And for this a professional videographer is the greatest way of ensuring a quality result

Filming weddings is nothing original For a long time the rich and famous have had their big days recorded on film for dispersion across the world’s news reels As home cine cameras became widespread, a friend or a relative would record the day’s events for prosterity using ungainly picture only cameras, which would produce a low quality film that was shown on the cine screen to the clatter of the projector If any editing was completed, it was a tricky and labor-intensive process of carefully cutting between image frames and sticking them back together again in order

But even with the low quality of the final result, the lack of sound and the amateur’s clumsiness of getting in the way and not knowing the best ways to set up shots, they were very trendy Looking back on old wedding films with favourite traditional music added to them can still bring back the tears to many They were never intended as a stand-in to the traditional wedding photographs Filming weddings is intended as a enhancement An extra way of recalling the joys of the day

At some stage in the middle of the 1990s the digital camera came along and took the professional videographer from the days of 8mm tape into the digitial age The cameras became smaller and more subtle and the professional was able to hide out of the way at an event rather than being in the way all of the time

With the development in home computers and digital editing suits becoming obtainable that enabled the painstaking editing and re-editing of every frame of the video, along with retouching of frames, addition of special effects to scenes and simple addition of music background tracks, the whole process of making a professional wedding video has enhanced radically No longer is a film of the wedding day the preserve of the rich and famous, an superb recording of the day is something that every couple can manage to pay for

You may speculate whether you could use all of these superior techniques yourself to manufacture a suitable wedding video of your big day You might even attempt to record some of it on your mobile phone But one component of the procedure has not moved on from the days of celluloid That is that an amateur recording remains just that Unless you have the expert know-how and long standing experience of generating the correct shots, the finished product just won’t quite have the effect that a professional wedding video will have

Keith Lunt writes in support of Impressions Video, who present a choice of Weding Video Services Merseyside.