Wedding videos
A wedding video captures a time that once was. It's filming and editing are processes that require artistry and care.
First of all, if you have a broadband connection, take a look at our wedding video samples. Although they are only short you should see that we capture the spirit of the people and the
spirit of the day.
This essence is captured through a planned and intuitive approach to the filming and the editing. If you've ever viewed the endless unedited footage shot by someone on a domestic
camcorder you'll understand why careful filming and creative editing make such an enormous difference.
Being alive to the 'chemistry' inherent in such an ancient, collective and social ritual as a wedding is what the filming and the editing of wedding videos should be all about!
A wedding video is a documentary and an historical document, allowing the people of the future to see themselves and their associates in the physical likenesses and personal gestures of
the people of the past. The natural expressions and gestures we use today are of ancient inheritance and all the more fascinating for that they link us to the past and to the future.
Posing for the wedding photograph offers up some delightful and often hilarious contradictions when filmed because the expressions and behaviour of the very young (who have not yet
grasped the context of 'posing') are so out-of-sync with the grown-ups (who have).
A wedding is a ritual event, a key part of the ritual framework and collective essence of our culture. It's documenting and recording really isn't something that should be entrusted to
dear old uncle Martin and his new Dixon's camcorder - unless of course dear old uncle Martin has the surname 'Scorcese'.
Now, we love our digital toys, but we hope you'll have gathered from the above and checking out our work samples that, like Mr Scorcese, we offer something extra. We offer a loving and
careful eye! That's priceless. A wedding video needs a loving and careful eye!
Everybody else has gone to a lot of trouble - why should we be any different?
People dress up in uncomfortable clothes to stand in cold, draughty buildings so that they may witness and celebrate the solemn vows that two people have had the love, courage, and
commitment to make to each other in public. This is magnificent stuff! Of great cultural and social significance! And remember, people attending weddings usually span at least three generations! This
is fascinating stuff to record - it's a social documentary makers paradise.
To capture the magic requires more than a deft technical competence, it requires skills and instincts for spotting shades of nuance in human behaviour, it also requires razor sharp
perception and a perfectly poised sense of humour. Basically you'd need the combined qualities a canny, long-in-the-tooth professional actor and the mind boggling dexterity a natural born close-up
magician ...
... Well, it's your lucky day because Musicmakers two main videographers
are professional artists with CV's and portfolios bigger than your house. Film,
TV, stage actor, comic, and media workshop director Jon Mckenna, and the close-up
magician's close-up magician Dave Brown, author of the Dorling and Kindersley
book of Amazing Magic Tricks and technical consultant on TV's How Do They Do
That?.
And we really are the choice of media professionals.
Our clients for wedding videos include Anglia TV's presenter of 'Bryan's Upstairs Downstairs', Bryan McNerney, and one of the UK's finest fine-artists Dom Theobald.
So you are in good hands.
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