10/10's - Ten Lists of Ten Tips for Digital Filmakers & Professional Videographers
Ten Tips for Giving a Wedding Video More Creative Pop - Continued

3. Two-camera coverage. To save you the time and energy on editing, always have good coverage of the ceremony. The bride and groom want to see it all and in order to do that, you need two cameras. It's worth the extra cash to make your video look more professional. Spend your money where it matters most.

4. Sound, sound, sound. I always have a back up to the back up to the back up. A ceremony only happens once. There is no Take Two so you better get it right the first time. Wire the officiator, get a feed from the P.A. system or use a shot-gun mic. You don't want bad sound to distract from your beautiful shots.

5. Stand out. Time-lapse, cool titles, stop-motion, and Super-8. This is the new vocabulary of wedding videography. People are using effects once only used in music videos. Try something new to make your style one-of-a-kind.

6. Limit cross-dissolves. Although sometimes it's hard to resist, I think it's over-used. While shooting, think about other ways to transition without fixing it in post by using focus, zooms, and longer shots so your wedding video isn't one long cross -dissolve.

7. The 10-second rule. Is your footage filled with short unusable shaky clips? Find a good angle, frame it and hold that camera steady for at least 10 seconds.

8. Get on the dance floor. You need to capture the mood. So, get in there! Shoot people dancing, talking, drinking, smiling, and laughing. The bride and groom want to know that every one was having a good time and you can make it seem like they were having the greatest day of their life if you get the right moments.

9. Highlight wedding video. Everyone is doing it and so should you. It's a film trailer for your wedding video. The best shots edited to good music posted all over the web. Get your creative juices flowing, because there might be a potential bride and groom watching.

10. Pre-visualize. Don't just stand there and be a fly on the wall. Search for the things you need to make your video pop. This isn't a cool Indie film, but if you are badass, you can make it look like one. This is your challenge. CPM

Karen Nedivi is Cinema Perfecto's Managing Editor and a professional videographer. She has worked on a number of films, documentaries and video art installations. She's been following her dad around on film sets and watching her mom edit on the Steenbeck since she was a little girl. The family garage was also a prop-house, a playground where she first learned to make movies with her brother. Since graduating NYU film school in 2005, she's been searching for a like-minded community of filmmakers; a network of inspiration and support. She is also a mother of a 17 month old boy, Solomon. To see more of her work visit: www.karennedivi.com

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