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Posted by nobody special on 08/17/06 16:57
There is a difference between what we as unrelated bystanders want and
what the wedding clients want. It may be boring as watching paint dry
to us, but they love every second of those speches and whatnot, because
they know the people int he shots, and more often than not, only want
you to tighten-up the dead parts between the "content" parts.
What I used to find was the best arrangement was to edit down a
tightly-cut highlights reel of less than 30 minutes, then append the
extended version of "everything", sans any bad cuts, mistakes, etc. The
idea is, for a quick viewing for any and all audiences, the
20-30-minute montaged thing is what they'll enjoy, and then once a year
or so they will play thru the longer version. The short version lets
you indulge your MTV spastic-cut muse if you wish to get creative with
transitions and the like. The ceremony gets cut way down to some set-up
shots, the vows, and the getaway, then snippets of the highlights from
the reception.
The extended Directors Cut version (grin) is wall-to wall, for the
times someone old who was there passes away and the couple wants to go
back and see as much of that person as you were able to capture. That
sort of thing. Because the couple is getting everything they paid for
in the long version, you can relax and indulge yourself in the cutting
of the short version because you/they are not "losing" anything.
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