Staci and Frank were married atThe Cathedral of St. John the Baptist catholic church in Charleston, SC. The exterior and interior of the church are second to none and we enjoyed every second we got to film there.

Staci and Frank’s reception followed at the Francis Marion in downtown Charleston where one of our favorite bands, The Mighty Kicks, kept the party going into the evening.

The clip below is Staci and Frank’s wedding movie opener all they way through the vows at the ceremony. Staci and Frank chose to have their coverage time start at the beginning of the ceremony with no preperations filming. In this piece you can see how we still unraveled the story in a natural and unique way even though we were missing that important preperations piece of the story.

In our last post, Hope and Tripp’s wedding video ending segment, we showed our unique way of blending parts of the ceremony over the entire video in order to maximize interest and maintain the emotional value of each segment of the wedding day. In this segment you can see some more of our signature style blending techniques.

If you have any questoins about the below wedding video segment or about our editing style in general please send us an email via our contact form or feel free to leave a comment on this post.

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Thanks to Nathan and Mell Bell of Richard Bell Photography for providing us with the above thumbnail picture and also for allowing us to use their photos for the Staci and Frank’s Case and Disc Artwork.

COMPARISON CLIP:

I also had Marianna cut a documentary version of the priest message.   The below clip is a straight documentary cut between all of the available cameras that we had at the wedding.  This clip is right at 7 minutes long and if you watch it you will immediately see that the priest point is all but lost because of the length of the message and overemphasis of some points. 

As you compare it to the version above (which his message was condensed to 2.5 minutes)  you will find that you dont miss anything but with the careful editing of the sermon his message is actually enhanced and more emotional.

Please realize that THE BELOW CLIP IS NOT OUR NORMAL STYLE.  This clip is provided for cross referencing with the clip above to showcase the drastic difference in what we do with our wedding videos.

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Here is another wedding movie segment!! 

This particular segment shows a few various techniques that we incorporate into our wedding movies.
The first is ceremony blending.  Let face it.. Most of the time wedding ceremony messages by the preacher are not the most entertaining things in the world. Being in the postion that we are (listening over and over to many messages) we have noticed that many of them carry a powerful meaning but it is often lost because of length or other distractions.  In our editing we always try to maximize the meaning and emotional value of EVERY segment of your wedding day.

One way that we do this is ceremony message and prayer blending.  We have found that if careful attention is given to each prayer and segment of the message by the preacher that often you can enhance the impact of the entire message.  While storyboarding (planning the assembly) for Hope and Tripp’s wedding movie I imediately identified two sections of the message that I felt would create a stellar ending to the movie, so I sectioned those off and saved them for the end.  As you watch this piece you can immediately see how the blending of music, spoken word and visuals creates a very emotional piece.  On the flipside, if we had shown these segments exactly how they happened it would not have been as interesting or impactful because these portions would have been lost in the middle of a 35 minute long wedding ceremony.

By blending these segements of each video we do, not only does it make those portions of the message stand out but it also allows us to trim the actual ceremony portion of the video down to something that maintains maximum emotional interest.  For instance, in documentary (as it happened) form,  Hope and Tripp’s wedding ceremony alone would have been 35 minutes.  With the various blending techniques we used we trimmed the ceremony portion to 6 minutes (Processional, brides entrance, a short message, vows, ring exchange and the kiss).  However, the entire 35 minute ceremony is still contained over the entire length of the video.

If you have any questions about our editing style in general or for this video in particular feel free to leave a reply by clicking the link below the video, OR, you can also send us an email by using our contact us form.

AND HERE IS THE SEGMENT!!

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Posted by Columbia Wedding Videographer James Player 

If you’ve been around our blog anytime recently it will come as no surprise that we work with SC Wedding photographers Clark and Becki from Clark Berry Photography a good bit.  

In July of 2007 we all met at a wedding.  It was immediately apparent that the way we work together was not typical of most photographers and videographers.   Not only did we enjoy the experience but we actually fed off of each other’s creativity.

After that wedding we met up with them and discussed some possible ways of working together more and possibly even integrating our services with one another.  

This year we have worked together at many weddings (with still more to come), and enjoy the opportunity of creating incredible visuals and stories with both photography and video.

Beyond work we have also become great friends with them.  Even though we worked together well that first time we met I can honestly say that we work together even better now and even plan creative ideas for jobs we are working together on way before the actual shoot.

Here is a promotional clip that we created for Clark and Becki out of a few of the shoots we have been together on.  We also have another video in the works that will present more wedding day material.

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