February 24th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Continuing with the videography picking tips -
(Refresher - “you” is you, the bride/groom/wedding planner, “they” are the videographer you are interviewing, “we” is me - Miriam at Omaha Wedding Video)
How many weddings are they doing on your wedding day? Reasons this is important - time, resources, focus. We have 2 complete crews, and we have all of the personnel and equipment we need to do 2 weddings per weekend. Each crew focuses exclusively on the wedding they are attending, exactly the same way it would be if we had 1 crew and were doing 1 wedding that day.
Is the videographer you are interviewing the same person that will be shooting your wedding? In our case, yes. My husband Don and I run our company together. If we have 1 wedding your weekend, we are both there with a 3rd camera person. If we have 2 weddings, we each lead a crew with 2 additional camera persons.
Who does the editing and DVD production? In many cases, what you actually like about a company’s demo’s is not the way the wedding was shot - it is also how it was edited - style, music, effects, etc. We do all of our own editing - we never sub-contract work out, as some companies do.
Who will be with us during the day? We have a female crew person with the bride during preparations (it is more comfortable for most people that way). Typically, we have a male camera person with the groom during preparations. With the groom it is usually tie, jacket, hair type shots, that a camera person of either gender can do equally well - but if the groom would be uncomfortable with that, we can definitely assign a male camera person.
Does the videographer charge for extra people / time? We use a 3 person crew on most weddings - occastionally adding a 4th person if we feel there is too much for 3 - but we never charge anything extra for people or time.
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