There is wedding photography and there is WEDDING photography.....

I love Stillmotions work, they're truly amazing. They set the standards that everyone else in the wedding videography/cinematography scene follows. There's a few guys in the UK who although not quite there (don't have the man power/equipment) do an amazing job. http://fxfilms.co.uk (I'm biased, they did mine :P ), http://mintyslippers.com and http://www.engagedvds.com are my personal favorite top 3 in the UK right now.

Here's our highlights clip from FX Films, you'll have to excuse my presence in the clip: :P
http://vimeo.com/4832706
 
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That's fantastic!... and the Stills are...

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I now have to save up for a 5D MkII gotta upgrade my 400D :(
 
That video is truly amazing, surely some of that has to be choreographed? I don’t mean just asking people to stand here or do something but looking at the video it looks so perfect as if it was all planned.
 
Interesting to have a post about weddings, with videography included in the topic of conversation.

I don't know if many of you know but I got into wedding videography a year ago. It's been a successful year - won a national award, August was packed and we're at the National Wedding Show next month. I've actually just got back from one today!

The video you linked to is really good. However, a few things spring to mind. Firstly, the shooting. Our style is very very inconspicuous - most of our couples (and guests) say they don't even notice us on the day and that's the best thing they could tell us. It's their day, we want them to enjoy it and be themselves rather than being directed around and always worrying about a camera being in their face.

The second is the production/post-production techniques. I have no doubt that with our skill and eye we could achieve the same quality and style of video, if not better. However (and here's the big but), at the end of the day it's a business. If we did that amount of work for every wedding we'd have to charge 2 or 3 times what we currently do, and that just wouldn't be justifiable by anyone but the super rich.

In terms of some of the questions raised here, the smoothness is just a steadicam - probably a fairly basic one. You can actually achieve very good results with home built kits too.

We shoot on a pair of Sony Z7s (1080p HDV), but the 5D MkII is so impressive, mainly just for the range of lenses - such a shallow DoF works wonders with content such as that of weddings.
 
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rghjones said:
However (and here's the big but), at the end of the day it's a business. If we did that amount of work for every wedding we'd have to charge 2 or 3 times what we currently do, and that just wouldn't be justifiable by anyone but the super rich.
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totall get this but how does it work with them, as they seem to have many clients...

do you think they are very expensive ? (and still get clients) or have they found a way to be more affordable and still produce such high quality work?
 
I didn't have a video on my wedding day because most of the time they are crap and boring. That one is amazing.

How does shooting video effect the life of a DSLR?
 
Paul11 said:
do you think they are very expensive ? (and still get clients) or have they found a way to be more affordable and still produce such high quality work?
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I guess only they know that! The only expense after the initial set up costs is time, so if they're willing to work for £10 an hour then you could get two videographers for 150 hours (at a cost of £1,500), which would leave 130 hours for editing, which is where the time is taken here. Clearly that's easily doable, but I wouldn't want to work for £10 an hour :p.

So who knows, maybe their clients are rich, maybe they work for less, or maybe it's a bit of both and they're just building their portfolio so they can target the rich and famous.
 
I'm sure they used x2 5D Mark II to capture the Bride and Groom.
The panning shot of the street and rooftoop is amazing.

Some of the stuff does look planned but I think it was worth it.
 
To echo previous comments in this thread, the 5dmk2 is a great cam but its just a lump of electronics and glass. You could give me the same set of golf clubs Tiger Woods uses but wouldnt expect me to be able to play anywhere near as good, same with this cam.

Just watching the 2 mins or so on Vimeo I spotted:

Lens breathing, dolly shots, f1.2/1.4's, people that know what they are doing, multi cam shooting, locked down shots, steadicam operation and much more. Its not the camera, its the prep work, the experience and the talent operating it thats makes the vid so good. Not taking anything away from the Canon but if anyone thinks they can just buy one and fart out footage like that is dreaming.
 
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A simpler hand-held device like a Steadicam Merlin would be more than enough for DSLR video work, I'd have thought.
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You would have thought wrong. I had a good few days of using one with my friend with my 5DMKII and lenses and you need something to be holding the camera movement steady whilst you refocus the camera. It's not something you can do with the standard Merlin alone. It's good if you stop down or keep the same distance between you and the subject, but even that's pretty hard with the depth of feild you can produce with some lenses. We shot a load of stuff with my 35 1.4L and in 10 minutes almost nothing was in focus :D

That video was just awe inspiring.. The music, the shot progression, dipping into the recorded audio at the time, everything. I'm also guessing those who think it's largely the work of the camera and lenses have never used the camera with the lenses. I promise you, as proficient as I am with my camera for stills, I couldn't make that video in a day with every lens at my disposal.
 
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