With the changes in the wedding film market, videographers are looking to push the boundaries in terms of what movie shots can be achieved within the constraints of a wedding day.
Ariel wedding day footage
One of these techniques is Ariel videography, capturing setting shots and moments from a sky down perspective. This is achieved by different companies in a number of ways. The easiest and common practice is to mount a light camera onto an air balloon, small RC blimp or just helium filled party balloons. This raises the camera into the air to get perspective shots from above. However wind and bad weather can badly effect this method and also there is little chance of a good vertical moving shot.
With the advent of small high quality, light cameras it is now also possible to mount these on r/c planes and helicopters. This enables some shots that are Indistinguishable from real helicopter Ariel shots used in Hollywood for many years.
All part of a new era for wedding videos
It is time to say goodbye to the cheesy old wedding video and say hello to a new film-like record of your special day, with higher quality footage using hollywood techniques to capture the special moments.
Cinematic wedding films
Wedding videography of the past stayed a bit stagnant. Cameras used to be expensive and difficult to operate professionally, this restricted the amount of competition which ultimately led to videographers not needing to push their videos to be that creative. Cinematic wedding films have been an advent of increased competition into the videography marketplace, due to cheaper easy to operate cameras of a higher quality.
This has meant increased creativity and everyone looking to constantly produce the best wedding films possible. Cinematic wedding films are films that use film techniques to capture the special moments of the wedding day. This means tracking shots, slow-motion, steadi-cam, aireal shots or any technique used in television or films.
