Your Weddings and Memories Videos
Wedding Ceremony: Thank You Note
Hello Dave,
Eric and I would like to thank you for all of your hard work and attentiveness at our wedding on Friday.
We so appreciate your efforts, and your decision to use our video as a catalyst for your videography business.
Thank you again for attending, everyone thought you were a member of my family, you were so professional and friendly,
You're the best!
Angela and Eric
Eric and I would like to thank you for all of your hard work and attentiveness at our wedding on Friday.
We so appreciate your efforts, and your decision to use our video as a catalyst for your videography business.
Thank you again for attending, everyone thought you were a member of my family, you were so professional and friendly,
You're the best!
Angela and Eric
Wedding Ceremony Short [4 minutes]
Wedding Ceremony Long [14 minutes]
Examples of Documentary Edge versus Cinematic Videos
Documentary Edge Video of a Baht Mitzvah
Here is an execution of the documentary edge conceptand you can compare it to the next video which is
more like a slide show.
Note: the two videos are the same
for the last two minutes from the chair raising.
Note: music selection is limited on youtube.
Your video will have your choice of music.
Cinematic Video of a Baht Mitzvah
Here is an execution of the cinematic conceptand you can compare it to the previous video.
Note: the two videos are the same
for the last two minutes from the chair raising.
Note: music selection is limited on youtube.
Your video will have your choice of music.
Party at a Catering House with Live Dance Band
Reference Point
My remarks based loosly on comments from an interview with
Brett Culp reported in
Sheila Curran Bernard, "Documentary Storytelling" 2011, p 271.
Of course, both have their place depending on your purpose
in producing the video.
I use the word "documentary" because in the world of events, particularly the wedding world, there are kind of two styles. There's the "cinematic" style and the "documentary" style.
I use the word "documentary" because in the world of events, particularly the wedding world, there are kind of two styles. There's the "cinematic" style and the "documentary" style.
- The documentary style is less like a slide show of hightly and more just real: exactly what happened, generally from the point of view of the participants which they share with you. It's not exactly like a "reality" TV show, but in a general sense it might have that flavor to it, it reports as much as enhances, and is more often structured in the way a story is: captures your interest, introduces main characters and their goals, and plays out the narrative arc with relationships and conflict. And so when I say that it has a documentary edge, it would probably be closer to say that it has a story arc where things don't always go perfectly and where you want to see how it turns out.
- The cinematic style makes a wedding look like it went through a dream. Everything is done to make it look magical, like it was the perfect fairytale event, and to me it sometimes looks more like a slideshow, maybe with motion, than it tells a story.
