MY COMPLETE WEDDING VIDEO PACKAGE INCLUDES
Rehearsal Dinner and/or Cocktail Hour Bride and Groom Video Photo Montage
The video photomontage is a very special and always popular family and wedding guest’s presentation of the bride and groom growing up; from their early years to the time they started dating. This special “bride & groom story” presentation is always enjoyed by everyone who watches. Parents and family will look back and affectionately remember those very special growing–up years and new friends will learn a little more about you. I prepare your video photo montage using a selection of your family and/or dating photographs and your music. I then digitally retouch and enhance every included photo prior to creating an elegant and highly entertaining video photomontage. Your photo montage showcases your new and improved family photographs that now look much better than the originals. As an added convenience, I provide and set up an LCD TV and DVD player at your rehearsal dinner and/or wedding reception cocktail hour. In addition, if your rehearsal dinner location allows it, a premium portable LCD projection system that includes an 80” 16X9 widescreen format projection screen is also available at no additional cost. Your premium video package includes four photo-labeled DVD copies of your video photomontage and a special bonus of all of your digitally enhanced and retouched family/dating photos on a separate photo CD.Wedding Rehearsal Attendance
I attend your wedding rehearsal to work in cooperation with your church or synagogue to better plan my videotaping positions and to be as inconspicuous as possible on your wedding day. This also gives me the special opportunity to meet your family and wedding party and discuss videotaping procedures with your clergyman or rabbi to respect the videotaping rules of your ceremony location and assure the best possible unobtrusive video coverage. On your wedding day, because I’ve already driven to and surveyed your ceremony location, planned my videotaping positions and met all of your important wedding participants, I know exactly where to go and where to be to capture the best possible video footage without disturbing anyone or asking any questions. Professional wedding photographers often ask me to identify wedding family members and other important bridal party participants on your wedding day because I’ve already met everyone at your rehearsal.Wedding Rehearsal/Dinner Photography Coverage
In addition to all of my many unique-in-the-industry included videography package coverage enhancements, my all-inclusive premium wedding video package includes unheard of complementary William Desrochers' wedding rehearsal and if also applicable, rehearsal dinner professional digital photography coverage. Of note, I am also an experienced photographer who also taught film photography classes long before I became a national award-winning professional wedding videographer. Because I still also enjoy photography, as a very special & very rare/perhaps unique-in-the-industry added bonus, I bring my professional Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR camera to your wedding rehearsal and/or dinner where I take some fun creative complementary original William Desrochers’ photographs to preserve that other very special wedding weekend day. If time permits, I burn those pictures to a photo CD that night and give it to you the very next day along with several select 8X10" prints plus a contact proof sheet that includes thumbnail images of all of your photos. I invite you to ask any other area professional wedding videographer or photographer if they also include or even offer wedding rehearsal photography coverage as part of any videography or photography package. Very few if any will even attend your rehearsal or they will charge you a substantial fee if it is an available option. If you choose to meet with me, as part of your private studio tour, I will share a recent wedding rehearsal photography package with you.Pre-Wedding Ceremony Coverage
As an important part of your “Complete Wedding Day Video Story”, I arrive an average of 2 hours early at your wedding ceremony location to set up my equipment, & videotape elegant pre-ceremony location footage. This special pre-wedding ceremony coverage includes beautiful exterior and interior ceremony location video footage, the arrival of the wedding party and guests, bridal party preparations, (if applicable), plus candid shots of those special moments that often occur before the actual start of your wedding ceremony. In addition, I also bring along my professional digital SLR camera to take some creative original Desrochers’ ceremony location photographs that I include in your completed DVD production as creative DVD menu page backgrounds and as labels for your DVD discs and cases. Because all of my unique-in-the industry wedding video packages include unlimited wedding day coverage hours, I am able to also include this very special pre-ceremony coverage that most other companies charge extra for if they offer it at all.The Wedding Ceremony
I videotape your entire wedding ceremony service to include all important traditional aspects. If time becomes a factor, only the unwanted portions will be edited out later per your personal EDL that you will send me after you have received and watched your full-coverage included DVD set described below. I normally videotape your wedding processional from the front of your ceremony site and then move to the back or another location where I am invisible to shoot the remainder of your wedding ceremony. My purpose is to remain unobtrusive while also successfully capturing your ceremony in a place where your guests will not be distracted by me and my video camera gear and all of the attention will be where it should be; on you and your wedding party. The groom wears an inconspicuous wireless clip-on microphone to clearly record your wedding vows from a distance. I usually work alone or with one assistant if requested or if I feel there is a need after attending your wedding rehearsal where I always plan my video shoot. Regardless of all of the commercial sales hype talk you hear about the need and/or advantages of having multiple videographers at your wedding, the fact is; one talented experienced “wedding video specialist” will always do a better job than 2 or more average hired video "camera operators". These additional camera persons are often hired by video companies at low wages under the false pretense they are necessary to assure a high quality wedding video product. The truth is; it is more profitable for the “company owner” to charge you a substantial fee to subcontract additional freelance camera operators, (who may or may not have experience videotaping weddings), vs. sending one veteran award-winning professional wedding videographer who knows what to do through years of exclusive wedding videotaping experience. Most photographers work with one or more assistants and when you also add 2 or more videographers and their hired help, your wedding day can end up turning into a "media circus" with continuous annoying camera crew disruptions. It is important and wonderful to have your wedding day artistically documented by your talented veteran professional photographer and videographer but not ruined by an unnecessary and expensive group of camera crews competing for space and coverage positions.The Wedding Reception
Video all important traditional reception events; introductions, first dance, second dance, father daughter dance, groom and his mother, speeches, cake cutting, bouquet and garter toss, etc. I also interview, with your permission and by invitation only, your parents, wedding party and other family members and friends who wish to leave you a personal message. No one is ever pressured to speak on camera. This adds a very personal touch to your video and is an important living memory of your loved ones. I work as part of a "professional team" along with your photographer, wedding coordinator and DJ or band to capture all of the elegance and fun of your special celebration.I stay until the very end of your reception, even if you extend the time as often happens, to capture your important last dance and those special departure moments, including if applicable, your drive off in your guest decorated “just married car.” Most other videographers that are often on a limited contract time schedule will have already left to get to a “next assignment” or will charge you a substantial overtime fee to capture these important end of reception moments that are also an important part of your “Complete Wedding Day Video Story”.
*THE VIDEO*
- Five artistically digitally edited (two DVD discs per set) DVD videos in beautiful individually designed full-face high-resolution photo labeled DVD cases. All DVD’s include convenient interactive motion menu pages with many easy to navigate easy to read labeled chapters. I also use TDK 100% abrasion resistant professional archival master DVD R’s by LuxPro. This unique rated #1 in the world DVD R discs are manufactured by TDK in their state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Luxembourg to be 100 times more resistant to scratches, fingerprints, and dust than standard discs. Visit LuxPro at www.vaformedia.com to learn more.
- A rare-in-the-industry complementary preview two disc DVD production that includes all of your original wedding day DV camcorder video footage. This special full-coverage pre-view DVD set is also digitally edited including chapter points, (it is not just raw unedited video footage). This is a very special and rare opportunity to see and own all of your wedding day video footage immediately or shortly after returning from your honeymoon and also play an important role in the creation of your wedding day “video story masterpiece” by preparing a personal EDL, (edit decision list) request before I complete your final DVD video package. I challenge you to ask other professional videographers to also include all of their original DV camcorder video footage in any of their video packages. The majority of what they shoot will be edited out and discarded in postproduction and you may never get to see most of what they videotaped. They will give you lots of reasons why you don’t want or need it or most likely charge you for it if you convince them to offer it to you. The final edited version of your wedding day DVD’s, that honors all of your personal EDL requests, will of course be shorter, more creative and enjoyable to watch but it is also very nice and I believe very important to own all of the other wedding day video footage that you would otherwise never have seen because it was discarded in postproduction.
- A digitally edited DVD video photo montage slide show of the bride and groom growing up and/or dating to show at your rehearsal dinner and/or wedding reception cocktail hour. You provide the photos and music in CD format prior to your wedding day. You receive 4 labeled copies, one for you and three more for anyone you choose. This is a very popular special presentation that everyone always enjoys; especially those family members and other loved ones featured in the show. After attending your wedding rehearsal, I provide and set up the flat screen TV and DVD player at your rehearsal dinner site.
- Your personal choice of either 4:3 aspect ratio, (standard traditional TV) or 16:9 (widescreen TV) aspect ratio recording modes. If you currently own or plan to purchase a widescreen television, you have the option to have your wedding video DVD recorded in true 16:9 widescreen TV format for playback of your wedding video in the same aspect ratio that film–based movies are recorded in. 16:9 is also the world standard aspect ratio for HDTV. The majority of television sets in most US homes today are still the standard 4:3 aspect ratio sets but with HDTV becoming more popular and the price of widescreen sets coming down daily, more people are investing in the newer 16:9 TV’s. The only minor drawback is the widescreen recording can only be played back on a normal 4:3 TV in a horizontally squeezed format with black bars at the top and bottom of the TV screen. If you or most of your relatives still own standard TV’s, the 4:3 format may still be the better choice for you.
- Professional custom decorative printed directly-to-DVD labels including the bride and grooms photographic image, names, wedding location and date. The labels are printed directly onto the DVD face vs. stick-on labels that many videographers still use. The problem with stick-on labels is the risk of them buckling and/or coming off after repeated use.
- Complete post-production artistic all-digital editing including titles, your wedding invitation, and two video photomontages with your choice of music. I use a minimum of unnecessary “special effects” to maintain the integrity of the story. Many videographers annoy you with overdone excessive post-production special effects gimmicks to make up for poor or average camera work. A few are necessary but most couples want to watch their wedding day coverage not just an artistic collection of special effects that any good editor can create.
- A flashback ending including a still video photomontage using wedding day photographs and/or a selection of your honeymoon pictures all set to CD music of your choice. Chances are some of your guests will take some pictures that are in some ways better than the professional ones and you might enjoy having some of them included in your wedding video. It also is a real treat for them to see their pictures also featured in your wedding day video recap.
- No copyright restrictions on your completed DVD’s. Most new computers now come with DVD burners built in and since there is no picture/audio loss in digital duplication, I have no problem with my couples making additional DVD copies of their wedding videos for other family members and friends. I only ask that you refrain from putting it on VHS tapes because the quality is considerably less and tapes have a 20-year or less shelf life.
- And more: I invite you to meet with me to learn more about my wedding video package services including watching examples my work. I will also give you a comprehensive package of information and a sample DVD to share with others. There is never any obligation or pressure to commit to my services and I encourage everyone to shop around to compare products before choosing their wedding videographer.
I pride myself in producing a state-of-the-art digital videotape that unobtrusively and artistically captures the sights and sounds - the love, the laughter, and the music - of this most special day.
