This is a continuation of Kim getting ready at the hotel prior to arriving at the hall. And this particular clip is of the photographer taking photos of her on the balcony. Again, this is slow and deliberate because I think the footage came out really well. The sky is kind of overblown and washed out, but I like hard lights like that so I think it adds a nice effect to everything.
I do not like getting all fancy with everything when I edit photo sessions because for most people, posing for photos on their wedding day is probably the only chance they’ll get to act like a model, so I like to show off all the different poses that brides take and the photographer giving directions. I think that’s better than putting some silly Celine Dion song over a bunch of black and white effects.
Wedding videos are like Hollywood. You have all these blockbusters that despite being poorly written, produced, directed and full of nothing but special effects, make a ton of money. Everyone says they are horrible and get terrible reviews, but they make millions of dollars. Then you have the independent films in which the people who make them labor over every shot and spend years trying to get everything right, then when they are released get rave reviews, but make no money because no one bothers to go see it because they don’t have any effects in them.
That’s what wedding videos are like.
Everyone says that they hate cheesy videos with loud music and wall to wall effects that are poorly shot, but yet the videographers who make those kind of videos and the ones who most people book. People say they want a high quality and tasteful video, but then when they see the work of people who do videos like that are like, “where are all the effects? There’s not enough music.” Just like Hollywood.
That being said I think Iron Man 2 looks really awesome!
Shooting this was actually kind of hard because I do not like heights or getting close to windows that are really high up, so I kind of tried to stay against the back wall most of the time. When I did get close to the side, I just made it a point to not look over it. Shooting weddings is scary stuff!