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Amateur and dated. Tips and secrets include, buying on eBay, using scotch tape for emergency splicing and titles on paper from a home printer. The only value here is in the unintended comedy.
If you didn't go to school to be a filmmaker here is your chance for a little foundation work. I rented this as part of the "Videography University" glad this title was a part of it as I probably would have never gotten around to renting it.
Rented-DVD 3 Sound Success: The Essential Guide To Audio For Video As part of "Videography University"
OK this is an old title (2002) and very hard to sit through. Primary DVD production quality is cheesy. Chapters are covered by different "employees" and very on quality of information and production value. Overall it feels like it was originally a free gift to a magazine subscription. Not an "Essential Guide" might be called a 101 class....maybe
Rented as part of "Videography University" A Complete Wedding Day Collection - Disc 2
This is a inspiration disc of weddings.
For me it is a nice insight to one persons approach to shooting and editing weddings.
It would have been nice if it had a "directors talking track" option on the DVD.
If you are entering the extremely over-saturated field of wedding videos. This may help give you an idea or two. Note that this disc has no introduction, instruction or chapter index, just clips from weddings.
This DVD shows that anyone can read-up a little on a subject, put on a (dirty) suite and handout advice.
This "production" is amateur. Footage shot with dirty lens, out of sync audio in short "wife" interview, poor camera gain setting, some distracting and poorly framed interview backgrounds...
Advice is sometimes great and sometimes poor to really bad.
A segment that stands out is a bathroom scene, at a church just before the ceremony. John is talking "shooting strategies" in a hall when he sees some of the wedding party go into a bathroom. John takes the (running) camera from the cameraman walks into the bathroom. He starts talking "it's ok I'm just going to get some footage..nothing bad..." Groom (in Marine whites) and a groomsmen quickly leave, not saying a word! (Hmmm... wonder why?). John corners a very young groomsmen and directs him into making an ass out of himself. Poor kid ends up with four or five time the hair gel he needs and is made to do a "fonzie" thumbs up (Johns words) over and over again for john to try and get his shot... In my opinion, there is too much solid work from real professionals for this DVD to be worth watching.
This was produced by professionals who know the trade. Watch it a second or third time and focus on the production side of things. A double win. Good advice and good production principles to learn from.
