Wedding Blog

If you watch the first 45 seconds, you get the feel of how they…. “interview” the characters in The Office if you’ve never seen it.

A sweet girl I used to work with is getting married this spring on a budget, and after I’d heard she’d asked our boss to be her dj, I offered to do the photography. However, she already had one, so I somehow agreed to do the filming instead. As in…. walking around with a camcorder. Which I know nothing about. So Patrick, my own fabulous videographer, had total faith in me with my photography background and suggested the best way to pull it off was to do it à la The Office or the Bourne Identity series. ie pretty shaky and amateur. And I hope to get in some quirky interviews with the bridal party and immediate family.

Call for help: will you guys come up with fun/embarassing questions for the interviews?

At the time I hadn’t seen The Office, but I’ve since fallen more in like with it than Arrested Development, which also has that shaky reality film type style, I believe. When I was trying to find a decent youtube clip of Arrested Development (which I never ended up finding), I stumbled across clarkandmichael.com. I watched episode one and totally LOL’ed at about 1 minute 20 seconds. So there’s a bit of a random tangent that’ll give you guys reprieve of my wedding dress adventures and play into the nation’s love of Juno that i know a lot of you have watched (I haven’t yet).

So to tie this post up and to bring us back to the topic at hand: me being a little anxious about filming a bunch of strangers…. it’s all worth it because this is what the bride says:

you da bomb. but not like those scary exploding ones in foreign countries. more like the kind that explodes and kitties and rainbows and unicorns come out.

ok i’m done.

So does anyone out there have any tips for me? If not you personally, then I’m sure many of you have a techie man in your life that loves to live behind the camera. I can’t decide if I want to rent a professional not-so-heavy-for-all-five-foot-two-of-me video camera, or get by with a regular family camcorder. I’m sure I can put together something a lot more exciting than a lot of videos that I’ve seen people pay money for, because I know very few wedding videographers are as artistic and cinematic as Still Motion, and I’ve seen way too many wedding videos that are basically shot on stand-still tripods. I’m hoping to get a lot of footage (and be really good at editing it all down, which I realize will take hours upon hours), and put together a fun 10-15 minute recap of the day for her.