The valuable wedding day moments that happens once in your life must be preserved in a video tape. If your budget does not permit you to engage a professional wedding videographer, you can always have an alternative in the form of DIY (Do It Yourself) wedding video production.

You can always find a friend, relative or a film student, who is capable of handling digital video camera which is also known as camcorder. Camcorder is capable of providing you superior quality video. In case you do not have such a camera you should find one from someone who has one. Although your friend or relative may not be able to provide the quality of video a professional videographer would give, if some of the basics are followed they can capture your important wedding moments. Apart from a professional grade camera or a digital camera you should have wireless microphones, video mixer, tripod and a micro disc recorder or digital capture device to backup sound; wireless microphones will capture sounds such as the wedding vow you exchange. The tripod can be used for the additional video camera which may be placed in a most eventful place.

Unlike a professional wedding videographer, your friend or relative may be doing the job first time. So it is important to make list of must have video moments. You should also make sure to have more than one video tape. It is advisable to start with a new tape at the start of every major event. This will avoid you from running out of tape in the middle of an important event. Although long shots are grand it is the close up shots that really capture the emotions of your wedding day. The highlights of the video will be the close up shots of the couple, the bridal party and important family members throughout the wedding function. Close up shots will be clean and you will have plenty of editing option. It is better to identify in advance, where to place the tripod, where extra light is needed and where the bride and the groom will stand during the wedding ceremony. Immediately after the function make a back up copy of the tape. Even though the quality of the back up tape may not be good, you can preserve the moments in a video tape in the event of accident. Because of the fact that your amateur friend is inexperienced unlike a professional wedding videographer, it will be ideal to make the necessary arrangements sufficiently early before the start of the wedding ceremony. Artificial lights will attract the attention and disturb the camera person. If your friend can use a modern 3- chip video camera the images can be captured even in a low lighting condition. The camera person must be able to anticipate the event to follow and take necessary action. A second camera person is much useful to capture images of what other people are doing at the time of an event that the main camera man is shooting. The recorded tape is likely to get deteriorated quickly. So send the tape immediately for processing. Check that the processed tape works in your DVD player.

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