Questions About Choosing Your Wedding Film

Your wedding will be unique. There will never be another ceremony and reception precisely like yours. Your wedding video will also be unique, but not solely because of the uniqueness of your wedding and reception. With many film companies to choose from, you have significant versatility in designing your video, both in content and style. There are many options available for you to choose from today for your video that were not available just a few years ago. By making a few decisions in advance regarding what is important to you for your video, you will be able to select the videographer and video options that will give you the video that's right for you.

Many bride magazines and wedding planning books have lists of questions to ask your videographer. Those are all important questions and should definitely be asked. But for the most part, those questions relate to the business itself and not to the production of the video. I answer those "FAQ" questions for 2nd Generation Wedding FIlms here.  However, the questions discussed in this article relate not to the video production company, but to what will ultimately be on the video: the content, and the style.

These questions fall into three categories:

a) Video Content (length, production style, extra segments, etc.)

b) Onsite Coverage (hours onsite, number of videographers, types of cameras, audio, etc.)

c) Video Delivery (Flash drive, DVD, BluRay, Live Streaming, Web, Podcast, Hard Drive, etc.)

In the next few pages, I'll discuss each of these decisions and our offerings related to the decisions you make.

Contents

Part 1 - Introduction

Part 2 - How Many Hours Should I Have the Videographer Onsite?

Part 3 - What Do I Want My 'Main Video' to Look Like?

Part 4 - Production Video Options from 2nd Generation Wedding Films

Part 5 - Video Delivery

Part 6 - Choosing a Videographer for Your Wedding