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Category Archives: Behind the scenes
Martin Scorcese once said that music is emotional choreography and he is absolutely right. Sometimes it gets overlooked how much impact the right soundtrack can make to the emotional content of a movie. I remember as a kid I watched a making of special for “The Empire Strikes Back” where they show the scene where Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite without the music and then the same scene with the music. It was like night and day.
In that same spirit, I decided to upload an excerpt of a postceremony with the music track muted and the full clip with the music bed added…..
Post Ceremony without background music….
Now here’s the full clip with the only change being the inclusion of a music bed…..
Hope you enjoyed the clips!
Chris W
One of my favorite parts of the wedding day is the dancing. All the formalities are over with, people are letting their hair down, and it’s time to party. In a traditional wedding video, the dancing is presented pretty much as it happened and can last for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, or even 30 minutes. That’s good to see every once in a while but sometimes you want to just see the dancing highlights for casual viewing such as showing the video to friends and family.
The way I decided to handle that situation is to create a high energy dance montage set to one song for the main video and if you want to see more, it’s in the bonus features. Check out these dancing clips.
This first one is from Ashley and Matt’s wedding I worked on with Marcus Rollins. As you can see, he had no problem getting the crowd on the dance floor.
This second one is a variation of the dance montage using a live band. On these I usually pick one of their standout performances like this one from Carolyn and Troy’s wedding where I worked with one of the most talented bands in Dallas: Icehouse. But judge for yourself.
Hope you enjoyed the videos!
Chris W
One of the the first features I go to when I watch a DVD is the director’s commentary. The ones I love the best are the commentaries that really go in depth on the creative process and why the director made the choices he or she did. With that in mind, I decided that it would be a cool idea to pull back the curtain every now and then and take you behind the scenes on the creative process at Watson Videography. And what better place to start than Timeshifting?
Chances are you’ve never heard the term but I can guarantee you’ve seen the concept in action. If you’ve seen “Pulp Fiction”, “Sliding Doors”, “Alias”, “Kill Bill”, and “Memento” then you’ve seen a timeshift. Now imagine that concept transplanted to wedding videography. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. To give you a primer on the whole concept, here’s an article in the October 2006 issue of EventDV that covers this concept in more detail. Special mention goes to Geoff Daily for making sure my gibberish sounded somewhat intelligent =)
“Back in the twentieth century, videographers largely produced linear videos, telling the story of an event in a straight line from the beginning, through the middle, to the end. Despite the widespread use of nonlinear editing tools by century’s end, that approach still made sense, given the prevalent belief that an event videographer’s role was that of passive documentarian rather than active auteur striving to create movie magic. But this paradigm is shifting, thanks to the ever-increasing nimbleness of desktop video editing as well as the creative drive and collaborative spirit of the event videography community. Today, one of the hottest trends in event video production is a shift of another sort: timeshift video…” read more
This past January at the 4Ever Group Conference and trade show, I had the opportunity to teach about this fascinating new trend in wedding videography at my seminar , “Supercharge Your Post-Production”. Here’s an excerpt from the training video that came out of that seminar which will soon be available in the 4Ever Group Store, the Pixel Pops store, and the trunk of my car…..
So how does that translate to an actual wedding video? Here is a clip from Nicole and Chris’ wedding back in August where I had the pleasure of working with my good friend and talented photographer, Kevin Jairaj of KJ Images. Here, I decided to cut between 3 different timelines. One where the bride is walking slowly into focus, the “present” storyline that covers the processional, and the “past” storyline that covers all the pre-wedding stuff. The idea was that all three timelines would come together at the end when the bride comes into sharp focus and the past storyline catches up with the present storyline culminating in the bride’s big entrance. I know, I know. I think WAY too hard about this stuff. Here’s the result of all that heavy thinking…
I hope you got something out of this and learned a little bit more about what goes on behind the scenes at Watson Videography. See you next time.
Chris W
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