X-Shawn_Young
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Nov 13, 2002, 9:08 PM
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Another angle on the photo vs. video debate..
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Hey guys,
First of all, I'm completely hooked on this forum now. I probably check for new posts more than I check my own email. You guys rock.
I wanted to throw this out for contemplation, and to add more ammo to the "You need video at your wedding" argument.
I just got finished talking to a bride on the phone. She's already hired me, but we still ended up in a discussion about the advantages of video. She told me that she doesn't want the photographer to do a lot of staged shots...she wants mostly candid shots; the way the wedding REALLY is. I must have had an epiphany or something, because my response started flowing out like a well-planned speech. I told her to get as many staged shots from the photographer as possible- and here was my scenario:
Photographers make reality almost surreal. They can take an object and manipulate it so that it is the most amazing single framed interpretaion of real life that you've ever seen. Just look at the cover of Cosmo or Glamour. The model on the cover will never look as perfect in that one shot as she does the rest of her life. So let's assume that the photographer is staging a shot of the MOB helping the bride zip up her dress. The photographer recreates the scene so as to design the perfect shot, even though it most likely is not the memory that the bride will have in her mind of putting her dress on. That picture will only be interesting to people who see the pictures in the album several weeks later, because that's the only image they have in their mind of how the bride got ready. IF, however, the bride hires a videographer too- they can shoot video of her posing for the photographer's "dress shot." You've now created a whole new memory for them! "Remember when we posed for that shot, and [this-or-that] happened?" And they have it on video to remember it by. It wouldn't have even been a memory if it weren't on video because it wasn't real life.
Perhaps I'm rambling on and ending too many sentences with prepositions. And perhaps this adds nothing to your individual sales pitches.. It just helped me make it clear to my client in a way that she had never really grasped until now.
Also, I'm aware that many of the photographers shots are not recreations. But you can see how video can impact the ones that are.
I'm still very new to this, and I want to do what I can to help those who have helped me.
Thanks
Shawn Young
Matrimoments Productions
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