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Whether your friends and family are attending your wedding or not, a well-produced video is an invaluable way to share your special day with everyone. It conveys the jittery nerves, overall excitement and genuine happiness in a way that standard photos can’t.
Wedding videos are often longer than a traditional documentary edit and can include speeches, vows and a mix of footage from the day. They usually tell a complete story that leaves your audience wanting more.
Cinematic Style
The cinematic wedding video combines elements of storytelling and cinematography to capture the highlights and emotions of your special day. This style of wedding video utilizes music, varied camera angles, slow motion and voice-overs to create a cohesive and compelling film.
Wedding videographers who film in the cinematic style take cues from movies, incorporating different camera angles and movements, filters and transitions, and drone shots to create a movie-like feel to your wedding footage. They may also use time shifts to connect the various parts of your wedding story.
This type of video often features a montage of memorable moments from the couple’s relationship, including their engagement and wedding photos. It also may include speeches from the bride and groom’s family and friends at the reception. Then, the cinematic wedding video ends with a shot of the newlyweds leaving their reception as husband and wife. It’s a perfect way to relive the best of your wedding day, for years to come.
Highlight Reels
A highlight reel is a video that compiles the best clips from your content. Athletes might use highlight reels to showcase their best plays in hopes of getting scouted, and businesses often develop them to show off testimonials or their products and services.
A good rule of thumb is to keep highlight reels under two minutes if you want your audience to stay engaged. Also, it’s important to keep in mind that not every clip needs to be in your highlight reel. Make sure that you’re selecting only the highest quality videos for your highlights.
A highlight video can help you achieve your marketing goals, whether it’s to establish yourself as a thought leader, drive registrations for your next live event, or turn viewers into customers. You can create a highlight reel with any type of media, including digitized videos and movies. All you need is a free online video editor that supports your media type, such as Wistia.
Social Media Friendly Edits
There’s nothing like a beautiful and clean edit to make a wedding video feel fresh, cinematic, and modern. It’s important to keep transitions and extra effects to a minimum though to prevent the film from feeling overproduced.
Using filters like polarizing can create very clean and pure colors and can also render blue skies in a way that looks truly stunning and awe-inspiring. It is a must-have for any videographer.
Having multiple camera angles in your shooting workflow can really help you achieve a more cinematic look for your video. Especially in situations that happen lighting fast (like the ceremony and speeches) having a multi-camera setup can help you to get your shots without having to worry about missed moments. It can also be useful for avoiding a single point of view becoming too monotonous in the final edited footage. A good multi-camera setup can be as simple as 3-4 cameras and a good tripod.
Slow-Motion
Incorporating slow-motion into your wedding video can add a sense of romance and beauty to the film. It also magnifies certain aspects of a moment, such as the movement of a bride’s dress or the elegance of a venue.
When used sparingly, slow motion can also create a fun and interactive experience for guests. In-camera slow-motion can be used to capture guests laughing and smiling in a photo or video booth, providing a memorable keepsake and an opportunity to share the day’s events with loved ones.
In post-production, skilled wedding videographers will carefully select and slow down specific clips to enhance their cinematic appeal. They will then use color grading to set the mood and bring out the emotional resonance of the shot. They will use warm tones that portray feelings of love and joy, while cool or subdued tones can convey a more calming and meditative feel. This state-of-the-art editing technique will make your film look more visually appealing and help to tell a more compelling story.
