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Why J Lennon Weddings Does Not Offer One-Camera Videos
by Eric Lennon, President, J Lennon Weddings
Your wedding video needs at least two cameras just like your car needs four wheels, anything less and your in for a bumpy ride.
It is impossible to mount and utilize one camera on a tripod and expect a quality wedding video.
Using one camera to record your wedding video would force our J Lennon Weddings camera operators to move to many locations during the wedding to capture the desired prospective.
This would create a huge distraction from the actual wedding and be incredibly annoying to you, the church, and your guests.
When our J Lennon Weddings camera operators move the camera to a new location, it results in disturbingly shaky video and the footage is useless.
This useless footage would have to be cut while editing your wedding video. If you did not select a wedding video package that uses two cameras, you have no backup footage to cover the missing video. The result: you have just lost a moment of time during your wedding that you can never recover.
Another problem with one-camera wedding video packages: you will not have a complete wedding video.
With one-camera, your wedding video will have gaps of time missing. While this method has been tried in the past using a wide view, the end result is a church full of people that appear on your video to be small, similar to the “size of ants.”
If the camera operator tries to tighten up the shot on a still video camera, the intended video target will eventually be out of frame. If you have one camera and one operator, you will get one perspective of the wedding.
With one-camera perspective, you'll see of the back of the bride and groom many times during the ceremony. You will also miss many important moments during the wedding.
One camera also offers no “true time” footage to cut to during the editing phase of your wedding video.
A video editor will have no choice but to cut portions of your wedding video footage, since the editor has only one camera to access footage from. You will lose a portion of your wedding: perhaps it will be a special moment with your family, or your new husband.
Your wedding video is no longer a complete wedding event.
J Lennon Weddings always uses two and three cameras for your wedding video. This gives us the ability to edit your wedding in true time, as the events happened. Seamless editing, the ability to make our cameras and operators invisible, and the ability to make all of our video technology disappear is the true Hollywood style.
Our main goal is to place the viewer in the wedding event with multiple perspectives.
This is why we do not use fancy or wild transitions during the editing phase of your wedding. This draws attention to technology and not your wedding.
The truth is, you really won't be satisfied with a one camera shoot, and you will have spent a great deal of money for a video that looks home made.