Re: Shooting weddings in 30p

First, practice, practice, practice. Get to know your equipment and your limitations. Don't use the wedding as a practice arena.


Glidecam shots:

Bride going down isle, fly in from the back of the isle / bride
Some shots after the wedding: mixture of shots
First dance, 180 bride and groom
intro of bridal party: mixture of fly by's, from behind bride and groom coming into the reception hall.

Empty room fly through

Glidetrack has a new Hybrid slider which looks interesting. I haven't seen or used the new version. I have the old slider which tends to stick. DP Slider works great. Again, you get what you pay for. Most of these are around $500.

Slider Shots: on floor, shots of dress. Sometimes on a bed or table getting some shots. On floor of isle during ceremony, or in front side of isle. It all depends on the venue. During the reception I may get shots of the bridal wine glasses, rings with back lighting, flowers, etc. ...again, depends on what's there. But I always get a ring shot with the slider.

Check out these amazing wedding film makers for ideas.
joseortizfilms.com

rayromanfilms.com

jasonmabanua.com

or my website or vimeo

dunnrightvideo.com

DunnRight Films on vimeo

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

Sony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut Studio

HP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite