Wedding Video Magic is your basic business idea starting point in bite size chunks. It includes lawyer-drafted “model releases” permitting you to use your images for promotional marketing, and a contract draft for use between clients and yourself.
What you can expect from Wedding Video Magic is a concise step-by-step to performing the basic functions expected of a wedding videographer from finding clients to delivering the finished product, and finessing additional sales to friends and relatives. This guide wont teach you how to become the next Sam Pekinpah or Steven Spielberg, but it will ensure you capture the “expected” images from each wedding you film.
The lawyer drafted model releases, and client contract, are extremely useful (even though they are intended for use in the USA, they can be adapted for other countries) and will save you many hours of researching for templates to adapt to your own business.
Our Review
Throughout most of the 1980’s, I operated a part time Wedding Photography business in Scotland and Northern England. Since then, I have also photographed weddings in the Americas and in Asia. In total I have attended more than 500 weddings as the “professional” photographer, and no longer need to consciously think and plan for what does and does not need to be taken account of, and structured, to obtain the “full set” of required memories on film.
Wedding Video Magic approaches the topic of wedding photography using a different medium to the still photographs that I have always taken. In terms of the narrative and guidance for the actual ceremonies and formal images, I found the guide a little thin on substance in comparison to the thousand and one rules and must-do’s of a still photographer’s list.
That said, I have worked with long term video professionals on wedding assignments, and their comments have always been to let the stills photographer direct proceedings and film them and their subjects actions and interactions. Wedding videography does not lend itself well to the formalised portraits and group images of still photographs – it needs movement and humour. Above all, they say, it needs to be capturing the moments that the Bride and Groom did not see or hear.
In skimming around this, the author allows more space for addressing the business side of this opportunity, rather than the lensmanship … and that’s actually a good idea in a guide of this type.
File Download Size 162KB includes the main ebook in both .rtf & pdf format (both are text only) plus three different “model” release forms and a client contract form – all editable.
