As some of you know, I participated in the recent Wedding University event that served as a crash course for brides and grooms on how to plan a wedding. For the vast majority of brides, the wedding they're planning is the first they've ever planned. So an institution/event like Wedding U serves as invaluable for them to learn the ropes.
In a couple of weeks, however, I will be filming a new event - also created and hosted by Jean Marks and Jubilee Lau of Wedding 360 - called The Academy for Planners + Designers.
This event is going to be amazing. It's geared toward event coordinators and designers and if you are a coordinator or designer, it will, undoubtedly, be one of the most informative workshop events you ever attend. With a speaker lineup that reads like a who's who of the wedding and event planning/design industry, the registration fee for the three-day event (with an optional fourth day) is positively a steal!
Go check out the Wedding 360 website and blog (here and here) for more information. And for goodness sakes, if you're a coordinator or planner, go register before it's too late!
Check out part two of my interview on the Re:Frame Blog!
http://reframecollective.com/blog/?p=515
Leave a comment there or here to let me know what you think!
I'll be at at the Bay Area Professional Videographer Association tonight speaking on the merits of the Canon 5D MkII. If you're in the area (Santa Clara) or if you've always wanted to know about the MkII and how it can help improve your business, you should totally come!
For details, go to www.BAPVA.com and click on "meetings"
Time-lapse videos are a great way to enhance a video. Any video.
A time-lapse video is defined as a video clip that depicts an event in a much shorter span of time than the duration at which it took place in reality. For example, remember those videos of flowers blooming or fruits rotting that show hours of footage in just a matter of seconds? That's time lapse.
A time lapse video can be taken in one of two ways: (1) by filming an event in real time and speeding up the footage in post production, (2) using special cameras that will expose very few frames at a time every so often. The former being the more prevalant in event videography, the latter being the only viable method of shooting long-term time lapse sequences.
The sequence below that depicts the fog rolling in over the hills in San Francisco was shot with a regular video camera at regular speeds, then sped up in post.
The following sequence is of my backyard being landscaped and was taken with a special camera. I set my camera to film two seconds of video every five minutes over the course of about a month or so. There would be no viable way to shoot this with the other method; I would end up using up nearly $1000 worth of tape and countless hours of capturing and editing. The way I did it, I only shot about 70 minutes worth of tape to cover nearly a month of activity.
Time-lapse sequences can be used in your wedding video if the videographer has the right equipment, creativity, and foresight set up a great shot for you. Otherwise, you can specifically request one if you'd like to see a time lapse for your video. Your quoted prices may vary.
Some good time lapsed subject matter include setting up of your reception hall, a sunset, moving clouds, crowds of people moving from one place to another, and other similar events.
-----UPDATE-----
Some readers have suggested that I post a photo of the completed yard, so here it is!
As a side note, in a previous post, Lessons from a Landscaper, I reported that I was inspired by the work ethic of my landscaper. His philosophy that doing good work means "one job turns into many" that doing a bad job means "this job becomes our last" was apparently just lip service.
Although he did do a good job for the most part - like 98% - he was supposed to return to finish sealing the concrete and slate tiles with waterproof sealant and he has yet to do so. It's been months now and I'm not holding my breath about him coming back. But likewise, he's probably not holding his breath that I'll refer him any work either.
Not too long ago I blogged about an iPhone app called "Shazam". It was a neat app that allowed you ask your iPhone to listen to a song and have it tell you the composer/artist and the title of the track. It is great for those moments in the car or at a restaurant where you hear a song and just want to remember it so you can buy it on iTunes later.
Well, today, I want to talk about the perfect companion app for Shazam.
Imagine, gals, that you've got a song stuck in your head because you just came from the salon and while you're driving home you wish you had pulled out your iPhone to shazam that song you heard. But you were busy chatting with your stylist so it kind of slipped your mind. But now that you're by yourself in the car, you can't stop humming that tune. What's the name of that song? you wonder to yourself.
You bust out your iPhone, click the Midomi icon, and then tap the "Sing or Hum" button to hum the tune that's stuck in your head. Midomi does a quick search of its database and spits out the name and artist of the song you're thinking of.
Brilliant.
Click here to get Midomi from iTunes.
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