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Monday, June 8, 2009

James & Patricia Wedding

To shoot a wedding well, it will definitely take more than 1 videographer. We find it difficult for the average SG wedding couple to appreciate this because more often than not, the typical SG wedding couple would rather engage 2 photographers, or spend more $ for a higher-end photographer. We believe this is all due to the fact that the current generation of newly weds grew up flipping the wedding photo albums of their parents and their elder sibling/cousins. To them, video is still a novelty, not a necessity.
Patricia was different.

After knowing how wedding videos can be tastefully created, she got us to capture her wedding. We went all out for her at her church wedding. We brought on Shem and Jeremy (for the 1st time we are mentioning the other shooting members of our team!) to cover James and Patricia's church wedding as well. Yes, we never shoot church wedding with just 1 videographer! The number of shots by the single videographer just wouldn't be enough to tell the story beautifully. 3 videographers with 4 cameras was wat we had at The Church of the Holy Family last Sat.
Watch out for the church march in sequence in the same-day-edit highlights here and you'll understand.

James was sporting enough to do exactly whatever the Jie Meis wanted him to do...

I must say that this one of the best kissing shot I've done in recent times. Decided to go for a tight crop to intensify the scene eventho there was the risk of James and Patricia not falling into my frame appropriately. I had to take the gamble, and I won it beautifully! I've never asked any couple to re-kiss during this take. It takes the mood out of the kiss. We hate retakes. As wedding videography is a non-repeatable event, a professional videographer had better be fast and accurate enough.
Videography aside, it was a pleasure to be part of James' and Patricia's day. They were such an obliging couple to go outside the church with us in the hot afternoon for a 10-min shoot. Shem and myself were sweating all wet.....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great Job with the highlights bro!!! Enjoyed it thoroughly ;-) Great stuff!!!

-Sam-