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Wedding Video Approach

Vasia Markides, Documentary Filmmaker/Freelance Videographer (http://www.))

APPROACH

I’m a documentary filmmaker in origin. I think of wedding videos in terms of creative documentation, not trying to make it something more flashy and exuberant than it is, but by capturing the moment depending on how the couple organizes their wedding. If it’s something lighthearted, then I would make the video cater to that style. If it’s something more formal like a Catholic wedding in a church that’s really extravagant, I would tend to make it more formal and less whimsical. I read the couple and what their style is and I cater my own aesthetics to that. For a beach wedding, I would try to be more experimental ...