As a wedding videographer, you can take a very wide range of approaches to filming your clients’ big day. There are two main styles, Cinematic and Journalistic. Each one has its own advantages and disadvantages, but most videographers will use a combination of both. Ultimately, it comes down to finding the style that best suits your personality and style, as well as the needs of your clients.

A cinematic wedding video will have a more ‘filmy’ look to it, with slow motion footage and transition effects, saturated colours and creative camera angles. This can add a real wow factor to a wedding video and tell the story of your client’s day in an engaging way.

Journalistic wedding videos are a more documentary style of filming. This will typically include the morning preparations, guests arriving and the ceremony itself. You will then edit the footage to preserve continuity and produce a video that is similar to a highlight reel. This is a great choice for couples who want to relive their special day, and can be more cost-effective than hiring a professional wedding videographer.

You will need to take a more planned approach with a Journalistic wedding video, directing your clients and guests where necessary. This will likely involve organising some posed shots, as well as capturing plenty of natural and candid moments. This will result in a longer video, which is ideal for sharing with family and friends online.

B-roll is the footage that will be used to complement the other clips in your wedding video, adding depth and meaning. It is easy to allow b-roll to become redundant and filler, but you can make the most of this by thinking creatively about your angles and composition. For example, using a mirror shot to create a frame within a frame or shooting through a window will give your footage a more cinematic feel.

Once you have a hard drive full of footage it’s time to start editing your video. Creating a high-quality wedding video is an art form, and can be very time consuming, but is worth it in the end.

If you want to speed up the process and ensure that your final wedding video is of the highest quality, then Vidbravo can help. Vidbravo is a fast and easy to use wedding video editing tool, that will give you stunning results in minutes.

You can import your footage from a camera or a hard drive, and then drag in music, titles and overlays into the timeline. You can also use templates to quickly create intros, outros and additional elements such as photos or graphics. You can even create a montage of pictures from your day, or add some text to create a custom message. The final product can be shared via a link, or burned to a disc. It will be a keepsake that will be treasured for a lifetime.