Dude, I get a sick feeling in my stomach just LISTENING to that story about missing a ceremony.... I can't even imagine. I might've crawled into a hole and never come out again. I'll set double alarms from now on.

" go buy a fuck-ton of memory cards " just died hahahahaha

This was my 4th wedding I've filmed. I was already tired from working a 7hr shift from my day job, so having a glidecam as my only stabilizing equipment wasn't the best idea. It had been a while since I had used it. I was tired and used little discipline as I walked around the wedding "documentary style"... I also neglected to pack a spare battery, so I missed the speeches, the mother/son and father/daughter dances, the brides father singing a song, an interpretive dance, and the cake cutting. I thought all this was happening after the dinner, so I was in a back room trying to charge my battery enough to get the rest of the reception. FAIL! Because the glidecam was swinging, Warp Stabilizer couldn't save the footage without making it look super weird. Lesson learned. I have a wedding next week and have purchased a tripod, monopod, a fluid film head, more sd cards, more batteries, and microphones. My failures forced me to "step my game up" and I feel very confident that I will never let this happen again.

@gshah921

6 жыл бұрын

damn lol, what did you say to the couple?

My last wedding was the first one I did for family, and the ceremony began without me and my 2nd shooter because I took too long to explain my plan. We rushed in, without micing-up the groom, and as I was locking my tripod into place, the ball head slipped and my audio recorder jerked out of my camera's hot shoe. It smacked onto the floor and it was followed by a very audible, "Oooooh" from the guests. That was my family's first impression of the work I do, and I felt so humiliated that my 2nd shooter spent the rest of that night making sure I didn't have an anxiety attack. I was able to pull it together and finish the shoot, and I've gotten nothing but compliments from my family since, but...that moment still really hurts, to the point that it's giving me nightmares for the next wedding shoot I have in a couple weeks.

A child threw my shotgun Mic into a river and filled my camera bag with rocks :(

@ValyArdeleanu

8 жыл бұрын

+Craig Shelton :)))

@drummersanonymous

7 жыл бұрын

Lol... 😂

@thenewchapter3563

5 жыл бұрын

was the child yours? :D :D :D

my worst one was a photographer who insisted in stepping in front of me in EVERY shot!!!! Needed to have a quiet word with him as to where his camera was going next if he didn't stop it...

@cyrionwillems8316

8 жыл бұрын

+SNORKYMEDIA I had the exact same thing at my first wedding.. The guy was such a d*ck. Even at the ring exchange and the kiss he was right in front of the main camera. Good thing I had an extra one running..

@KidsWithGuns1992

8 жыл бұрын

+SNORKYMEDIA Good reason why I always talk to the videographer or photographer before shooting a wedding, so they we understand each other. Generally if I'm the photographer I work around the videographer, as because I also shoot video I know it's less easy to move around and you can't really edit people out. But generally I'm working with people I know, so mostly not an issue, but I have heard some horror stories before.

As an actor - always changing shooting location - I made these exact same great and horrible mistakes. This video is critically important, not only for the future filmmakers but for anyone in life who will have to assume important responsibilities. Thank you.

Not at a wedding, but I hooked my H4N to the venue soundboard to record a remote interview. The sound guy turned down the house music but didn't cut it completely. It wasn't audible in the venue but I have wonderful quality interview audio backed with a solid recording of 'Gangsta's Paradise'. Thankfully, the VideoMic Pro was turned on and plugged in!

bloody hell! ...that sounds just like my early photo life...I'm a wedding photographer in Ireland, everything you mentioned just felt so real (flashbacks)!!! ...we definitely (& hopefully) learn from our unintentional errors!

It takes a big man to be this honest and open about their mistakes. Kudos brother.

Push the record button.... this year I changed from t4i to Sony A7S. But the record indicator is so small..... sometimes you don't notice that you not record. And sometimes when you do record...its the floor......fascinating!

8 жыл бұрын

+Videodynamic s Been there.... =/

@madisonsmith8502

8 жыл бұрын

+Videodynamic s What!? This sounds very confusing... Why and how does this happen??? Am looking into the Sony A7S but this sounds weird...

@littlelovebugphotographyfi4080

8 жыл бұрын

hahaha I've looked through my footage and its the sky and ground... and you miss that perfect shot

@davidhrzenjak

7 жыл бұрын

Videodynamic s bruh this happend to me a lot of times. i think i am recording when im actualy not and then when i stop recording that is actualy when i start it. and then in post production i am like where the fuck is that shot and thy tf is there a video of a some random shit that wasnt ment to be recorded

@davidhrzenjak

7 жыл бұрын

Videodynamic s bruh this happend to me a lot of times. i think i am recording when im actualy not and then when i stop recording that is actualy when i start it. and then in post production i am like where the fuck is that shot and thy tf is there a video of a some random shit that wasnt ment to be recorded

The smile and the gratitude you get from people just melts the heart.

I have done all of the things you mentioned. This is what we mean when we say "experienced".

What a great service to the community to make and post this video of errors. Thank you!

I was one morning in a hurry, so I just grabbed my bags and left the house. One hour drive to the groom and I realise that I left all of my batteries on the charger. Luckly I had a GoPro with a few batteries and I was just a second shooter, so I literally filmed the entire wedding on a GoPro. I had to get it on my Glidecam too, so what I did is I put my camera on the glidecam and a GoPro on the hotshoe mount. It all turned out really great, despite the fact that I don't have a LCD for it, so I used the app which takes a lot of battery life, so I was charging the batteries non stop lol

@KidsWithGuns1992

8 жыл бұрын

+Hrvoje Bazina Yeah that's why I always keep tonnes of AA's and a battery pack in my bag, never take them out, in case if I'm charging batteries and I forget to grab them I can use the AA's. They wouldn't last all that long, but usually some time after the ceremony during photo shoot to quickly stop somewhere and get a bucket load more. But I usually charge the entire day before if I'm home, and throw all the finished ones in the bag and leave charging ones out - worst case scenario missing a battery or two out of five.

@hrvoje_bazina

8 жыл бұрын

KidsWithGuns1992 I have only two batteries for my DSLR. And both of them were charging sadly :/

Brave vlog. Thank you for sharing

Always have more than one source of audio for the ceremony, and never rely on just the audio system provided by the venue. Make sure your gear is there as backup so that if the venue equipment messes up, your audio is still fine. Also, when filming, keep checking the recording indicator. I can't tell you how many times I've "got a shot", then hit the record button to stop recording and instead find that only now is it recording.

@oshead

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Watson Film Yep, I do that a few times per job.

@JoshuaBoothCreative

8 жыл бұрын

all the time

@KidsWithGuns1992

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Watson Film Goddamn I've had that definitely a couple times. Never during the long extended shots, but usually shorter shots where I'm not paying attention to the camera info as much. Never such a big deal in that case, but still not good.

K A, this is one of your most helpful videos. In addition to the helpful stories in the comments, the information presented is real world and very educational. Thank you for opening up and sharing what you have learned from your mistakes. I hope you do more of these types of real world lesson videos. As for my biggest mistake, well, it was almost exactly like the worst mistake you shared. When I heard how you explained missing a ceremony because you took a nap, my heart went out to you and I empathized your pain. It was 20 years ago, but I did the same thing...got everything prepared in the morning, took a nap, but instead of over sleeping, I mixed the start time of the ceremony with a different ceremony (on another date). As soon as I realized my mistake, I drove 100 mph to get to the ceremony, which was half over when I arrived. Like yours, my stomach was turning and I completely felt embarrassed. As I fumbled to set up my tripod and camera in the balcony, I hit record just as the bride said, "I do". Man, was that an experience I never want to go through again. Double, triple, quadrapel check the start times and dates, friends!

Oh my goodness you helped me so much with this. I felt terrible often because I couldn't deliver on the timeline but this is just so uplifting to know that a professional like you has had these problems too. One of my biggest issues is that miscommunication on payment. I had a client who I did a graduation event for. They told me I could wait to complete their event because they would be out of town for a few months. I said ok. Bad idea. When they came back and I had their video all finished they said I had taken too long to finish. I could have fixed this by instead offering to mail or email the file early to the client regardless of them being out of town. I agreed at this time because I was overwhelmed with projects. Another time I was at an event and our team was getting to running out of batteries. My team members actually both left to get them and my other videographer left also having a prior engagement leaving me to run 2 cameras and the photography alone during the cake cutting ceremony. Needless to say I learned that day to always be prepared and let people know they cannot leave their positions unless I say it's a good time. Thank you so so much for posting this! It's literally a comfort and breath of fresh air. I was a bit worried about going into wedding videography because I'm so afraid I will make mistakes again but now I feel better because I know they were all learning experiences. Thank you and I'm going to learn from wedding film school all I can to truly make a bride and groom's wedding film amazing!

:) It was happen to me to pretend I am shooting and had no memory card left. really embarrassing. Literally I was shooting, smiling, but my mind keep saying: I am f.ck't up....! :)))) Thanks for sharing.

@ChiChuNug

8 жыл бұрын

+Valentin Ardeleanu Yoooo is that a vx??

This is so honest and refreshing! I swear you are making me want to shoot video. I'm currently a photographer and done 6 years of weddings. Itchy feet to try something new

I just finished my first wedding film (not the best, but learned a lot) and have another coming up, so as expected, I still have the newbie wedding filmmaker jitters. Thanks for being so candid about your experiences!

Thank you for being so honest. Making some notes while watching.

Thank you so much for sharing these tips, so happy I've come across your channel. I'm shooting my first wedding in April so will keep these tips in mind!

This video is great. I really appreciate how open and honest you are about everything. My badest mistake was when I should have taking pictures at an event but managed to leave my entire backpack of equipment at home. Don't ask me how that could possibly happen...once I realized I just wanted to vanish, get in my car and drive back home. Worst experience ever.

Thank you for being honest and sharing your experiences and mistakes that we all learn from the hard way. This is a valuable help to many.

Thank you. Thank you for being honest and doing a video like this. I know it takes a lot to admit and discuss faults. Especially when you mentioned oversleeping one.

Sleeping though a ceremony sounds like a nightmare! My stomach turned a little while you were talking about it. Do you explain to the couple about all the things that could go wrong? We've had cameras just quit recording for no reason but most of the time we can just do a retake. At a wedding you can't ask them to do the kiss again. :)

@WeddingFilmSchool

8 жыл бұрын

+Garden Answer BLAHHH it was terrible. Tell your stomach that i'm sorry. I don't necessary include bad situations in conversations with clients. If they ask questions, I will always try to answer them best as possible but I like to focus on the nice things lol. They need to trust me that I'll do the job to the best of my ability.

@TomZolyomiFilmproduktion

8 жыл бұрын

+Garden Answer i saw a filmmaker here on youtube who actually did miss the kiss, but he asket the couple later to kiss again, and because he used a very telephoto lens noone noticed that it even wasn't in the church ;)

@KidsWithGuns1992

8 жыл бұрын

+Garden Answer You can ask them to do a kiss again, but it depends on the kind of couple and type of guests. If you're a gregarious and personable person you can usually make a joke out of it and people won't mind, I haven't done it but worked with people who have an it has never been an issue - everyone laughed about it.

@MillyLou

7 жыл бұрын

I guess you could just say you want the kiss from another angle, or a close-up of it, and they'd never know!

@inatmedia509

6 жыл бұрын

Well I do it allmost all the time. I mean, making jokes and asking for kisses and so :D There wasn't even single problem :D

Thanks for the tips! I'm shooting my first wedding soon, and you have helped me very much

This is so refreshing to hear. We look up to you so much that it’s nice to know you’ve made mistakes, also. Makes me feel less bad about being a beginner. So, thanks! I’m shooting my first wedding this weekend and I’m so nervous.

This video is a great teaching tool. Thanks for being so open about mistakes.

A very helpful and honest video, all common sense but also all mistakes we can (and do) make. Many thanks.

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, VERY INFORMATIVE!

Just shot my first wedding on my own about a month ago. This all fantastic information and I thank you so much. I intend to do better jobs each time because of your channel. Subscribed!

Man I really appreciate your openness. I'm getting ready to shoot my first wedding where I'm utilizing a second shooter and using a Gimbal and acting as the lead, and I'm crazy nervous. So I appreciate the points

Really very interesting !!! Thanks Kraig !

filming my first wedding in a few weeks and have had plenty of experience with other projects and overseas trips... but this was still some very useful stuff. thanks!

Thanks kraig. Very helpful. I also did the pretend shoot thing.

Thanks for doing this video. I'm actually impressed that you were willing to admit some of these mistakes, because most people wouldn't mention that stuff. The worst thing that happened to me was thinking I'm recording when I didn't press RECORD. I'm a photographer who started doing video a couple years ago and there have been a few times where I did that.

Cheers dude. Nice honest advice.

Very helpful information!

Your honesty is breathtaking. Even I have had to pretend continuing shooting when my camera battery died or zoom H1 battery ran out. Just like you I am today obsessed with spare battery bank

Thank you for this

OMG... after shooting 12 weedings, this is my List of Fails: 1) At the biggest weeding I've shot, after the ceremony I drove my car for an hour looking for the bridal party & photographer. Completely missed the photoshoot, as I did not have the couple's cell phone no. 2) At that ceremony, the sound guy was live streaming the entry song off the Internet. The track suddenly stopped, as did the bridesmaid, mid-aisle. She had to freeze for a minute! 3) At my first weeding, I was in the 2nd row. Everybody stood up for the bridal entry, and lots of Christian singing, completely blocking my view. Tripod wasn't high enough. 4) At my second wedding, on a beach, the pastor got the audience to move all seats forward without warning - but my gear was plugged into power, etc. So I ended up further away. 5) My 4th weeding was just for family, but I bought the wrong audio adaptor, so had to use the DV Cam's crap audio for the edit. 6) My 12th weeding was nearly faultless, but my second shooter didn't listen, and shot all his footage at 720p. So the other 4 camera footage had to be resized down to 720p. Just a query: does something ALWAYS go wrong, at EVERY weeding? (Or is just me being a perfectionist?)

@KidsWithGuns1992

8 жыл бұрын

+Hot Pixels Photo & Video Not really, most weddings I do go smoothly. It seems to be affected by the collective mood on the day and the couple type. If the couple get stressed easy, or the photographer/videographer isn't relaxed and personable, things seem to go wrong - always and inevitably. Worst thing that's happened on one of the weddings I did was the limo driver just didn't rock up to the bride's house, so she was 40mins late to the ceremony. Fortunately, if the bride fucks up (or in this case the dude driving her), everyone allocates around her cause weddings are more or less really just about the bride. But if you're the photographer or videographer then.... not so much.

Good stuff my friend.

good video, it really does help

nice, honest and helpfull

it's need courage to share such learning front of inter world of KZread. heat off you for such worthy share!!

Still helpful in 2018! Thanks. I appreciate the video!

This is extremely encouraging. I am editing my first film and half the footage is awesome, the other half of the footage is nearly unusable due to exposure (NOISE) and white balance issues (I accidentally kept the WB on 'cloudy' and couldn't really see the monitor to tell what was going on with it). I also completely failed to capture any usable audio because I was totally unprepared, so LESSONS LEARNED. You have to fail in order to really learn and move forward it is just a very hard lesson.

great video Kreg

thank you for sharing this men love you :)

blue eyes with blue shirt matching perfectly !

Thanks man. These are basic stuff. The most important I think.

Thank you so much for sharing your advice. Saves us and clients problems and frustration. My only advice is to double check your gear your bringing. I legit put all my tripod plates except 1 in my black clothes bag instead of my black camera bag and I couldnt go back to the cabin to get it in time so I had to improv by using tape to place my camera on tripods for a multicam set up. It was tacky and unprofessional but I did get the shot and never dropped the cameras. The couple were so happy with the footage but I know I did get some eyes with that set up.

It's time to make another video like this. I believe there are many more mistakes you could be sharing with us! I love you, dude!

Can you do an updated video on what else you have learned these past 3 years since you posted this? (:

Thank you

Hey Craig, I've only started a couple of months ago doing wedding films using the Nikon D810 and DJI OMSO (osmo bad choice) but since finding your tips and tricks to becoming better, I've upgraded to the Sony A7S II and going to upgrade all my gear! you have been such a help with me and my fiancee's photography and film business! also only got into photography 2 years ago and studied a diploma last year. i know my footage isn't that good at the moment but you are pushing me to try harder and being more professional. funny how I've made all these mistakes already

@littlelovebugphotographyfi4080

8 жыл бұрын

my latest footage is from the osmo

Thank you for sharing! I thought I was the only one who had screw ups. My heart hurts from hearing some of the stuff. I'm glad that you made it through. Let me begin, lol: 1) I only had one tripod for stabilization. My second shooter had it, so I was handled for my shots. They came out shaky and had to use mostly 2nd camera shots. (I learned to invest in a monopod) 2) My assistant had out of focus shots. I couldn't use my shots because they were shaky. This made it hard to finally sit down and edit, because I was so embarrassed to speak to the couple about it. 3) I wasted money on a glide cam rental that I didn't use due to the weight. I should've practiced with it more before bringing it on a wedding. 4) I had tons of static on a wireless lav mic. It made some of the audio unusable.

good information video to watch.

One big mistake we had was when we were in the hotel, waiting for the guests to finish their meals and for speeches to start and we didnt pay attention to time as we should. Basicly we missed the start of the speeches. We somehow keep relying on someone to allert us that they are going start speeches or whatever but sometimes they just dont care to warn us. Im talking about irish weddings just in case somebody wonders.

Just rewatching this video lol. I would recommend also - never trust too much people you work with when you tell them to stay out of your shot - make sure you have a backup angle for important moments as a lot of times you will find either the celebrant, photographer or other suppliers in the shot... And also put things away from little kids reach! ahah Thanks for the tips Kraig.

Food and water is really important and breaks for sure, when I first started weddings I had the same thing of feeling like I should never stop shooting cause I thought it looked bad. But now I always take food and make sure I relax at times when I really don't need the footage (family photos, guests eating at reception or in between speeches, etc). That's why I get mad when I do a ten hour day and I'm not getting fed at the reception, I obviously don't say this to the client (or most of the time the reception, they often just ignore us even if paid for!), but how can you expect someone to work long physical hours without a proper meal.

Bro, I wanted to cry when u said u overslept...Anyway the worse things I've done really doesn't compare to ur list but the last wedding I shot, I thought I Was recording the ceremony and missed 10 mins of it. Good thing my B camera was rolling but it also stopped so I had a gap in visuals, audio was still rolling so during the edit I covered it with some reaction shots. I felt like an idiot because I wanted more to cut but thats all I had. Still nothing compares to ur horror stories.

Yes, I've been there too, but not on all of them. When I started shooting some of my first weddings by myself, I would have my DSLR with me and set up a GoPro for Wide footage. Twice I have come back to recover my GoPro and some how the mounts loosened up(weather, humidity and such) and I got great footage of everyone's feet. Additionally, when using some lenses with shallow depth of field(anything below 2.8), I didn't realize how crucial the focal points became. So, you get back home and start skimming your footage and "oh hell no!" Thanks for the tips and direction. BTW, your viewfinder(5D mark iii) has a different look on your BTS vid...magic lantern?

Man I have went through every single thing you have and for some reason i thought i was the only one!!!

I felt the same way about the eating and drinking lol, I had migraines and now I basically eat more than a guest lol but I realize that I have been more on my toes and more creative and that seems like the biggest issue for me recently

Overexposed most of the footage during the photoshoot on one of my cameras. Also on a really close friend I had a memory card fail 😳. Lost some footage toward the end. Zoom h1... Had it plugged into the mixer and dj bumped up the audio so everything was too loud. Ended up mixing audio on a song from 2 cameras. Thought I imported all footage... Missed last 5 clips, which was parents giving speech for couple. But hey, these all make us better! Awesome tips!

I’ve been watching your video. and I’m so in passion The way you do and what you do, I am so much inspired the way you do work that I would love to one day in my life to shoot the wedding video with you. every time I start learning something I start from scratch my on takes me a while to figure out the right way to do it. older I get I realize sometimes you just have to ask somebody help and they can show you the right way to do it and don’t waste Time in your life. that’s where I am right now just need a little help one wedding shooting so I can learn and I can see what you guys thinking what you guys are looking for. and I was so my English is five out of 10. i’m no English teacher that’s for sure. :) lol.

Brave of you to do this video, but we could all do our own. Thanks!

I feel like I made half of those mistakes on my first "real" wedding shoot. The best advice I can give is to always have a battery on charge somewhere while you're shooting. Simply swap them out when one gets low. I actually take about ten minutes to dump footage when there's a lull, that way I free up card space; that's only because I'm still on a budget. Also, communication is key. Get a "run sheet" if you can, so you know exactly what's happening, and where. Lastly, it's better to have too much footage than too little. Arrive early, leave late.

@KidsWithGuns1992

8 жыл бұрын

+Elephants Fly Good points but when you can afford more just get a tonne of batteries and cards, and leave all the fiddling until after the work day, otherwise you can leave stuff behind or muck up files, etc. But every single wedding I do I get a layout for the entire day, as I clearly outline that I'm unable to be expected to work without understanding the clients expectations of where and when I should be. I say it nicely of course, but it's included in contracts. So they run more or less like - (List of name's and contacts for entire bridal party) 10am - 10.45am Groom's House 145 Fake Street, Fake Town, 1243 15 mins travel to bride's house 11am - 12pm Bride's House 123 Fake Road, Fake City, 1244 Etc etc, pretty basic stuff but helps out a lot. Impossible to work otherwise.

@tahnolikessharing

8 жыл бұрын

KidsWithGuns1992 Thanks. Appreciate the reiteration.

@peterpahn123

7 жыл бұрын

Elephants Fly I would not empty sd cards during the weddding - one single wrong klick and the entire footage is gone. I carry a small orange bag with a strapp attached to my jacket in my inner pocket, containing all memory cards. I do not delete any file until ir is safely backed up at home in the cloud and on a external second drive.

Valeted at a hotel prep location when I could've parked on the street and paid for a meter... The bride of course wants me to wait until the very last minute while they are running late to record her and she is immediately escorted to the ceremony which is just over 30 minutes away. Me and my second shooter drove together and the valet guy takes 20 minutes even though there was no line - he said my car was "misplaced". Luckily I entered the church when the groom was walking down the aisle, but I didn't get to place a lav on him or the officiant because of it. Others have been simple like when I first got the zoom H1 setup I think I plugged the lav into the headphone port instead of the line in. Mainly just a matter of having enough card space and swapping batteries at the right time and not needing it in the middle of a bunch of first dances and long speeches. I've also unfortunately had the awkward light battery dies in the middle of the speech situation because it was on by accident

This is mine,not quite for wedding video, but it was for a photoshoot: I was in a rush and grab my backpack with camera gears and rush to the door. The thing I didn't realised is that I didn't zip up my backpack all the way up. When I get to the door (it is also the only place where it doesn't have carpet apart from kitchen and bathroom) I heard a high pitch "ziiiip" noise and then my camera, and lenses dropped out from my bag onto the door. My main camera and lenses were badly damaged and I had to use backup gears. Check your bag before you pick it up kids!

very useful

Zoom H1 and B3 in grooms pocket. I ask the groom who the officiant is and I mic him too. The groom actually had me put the lav mic on his Father who is a judge. Get home and there is 10 seconds of audio from the groom. I had to use the audio from the Father sitting on the first row. The mic got disconnected when I put the mic in his pocket. I have been using the the Rode Film maker kit with headphones. Always monitor audio now!

hello sir,may I know what's the best camera that's good for videography and photography at the same time?thank you

I film with Nikons and if the power goes out the file is still there. also if you shoot Nikon no one wants to steal that stuff. .

@puzzlemanproductions

8 жыл бұрын

+Jan Lukeš I can't speak for the D800 but I know of 2 times when I've lost power on my D810 and thought oh no and when i got home the file was there. I've tested it and on my D610 no file was saved but on the D810 and D750 the files are there.

@rohanarchive

8 жыл бұрын

+puzzle man productions I film on a d5200 and i use wasabi batteries and on my first film I literally turned off the camera to stop recording everytime and I havn't lost a single file.

@puzzlemanproductions

8 жыл бұрын

+Curryjesus yeah Nikon finally did something right

@justmeeddie9512

8 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Sam-ht5dk

7 жыл бұрын

It's different if you turn it off with the switch. Try just pulling the battery out during recording.

Sounds like some serious scary experiences. Learning from these failures only means one thing, you're growing. Great vid and keep up the good work.

I've had the annoying photographer thing, dehydration and I learnt to shoot on a flat picture profile bec my footage looks so contrasty after applying LUTs and color correction!

Battery grip is real! Happened to me exactly how you said.

On my first time making a film with my camera it was going to be about my 15 day hiking trip in new mexico. I charged all of my 4 batteries then in the morning when I woke up for my train ride I grabbed all the batteries but forgot the charger. Somehow I ended up making it 15 days without charging but I shot so little that i didn't even fill a 32gb card.

@WeddingFilmSchool

8 жыл бұрын

+Curryjesus That does suck. Man. I would rather have one battery and a charger than four batteries and no charger... :(

Hi,I had same problem with SD card. I used software calls Recuva - its free and amazing. After recovery files needed conwert to MP4 becouse many of shots was mashed up so badly, but finally i safe all project :) What You thinking about sony a7S II for wedding filming?

First wedding in a different time zone and didn't factor that time shift. Missed most of the bride's prep, but luckily I got just enough to help fill out the video. Felt like an idiot when I first arrived though.

well with the wedding I'm editing now, I just got caught up in how I was going to edit the sound afterwards that I ended up not thinking about shooting the video as separate to the sound and ended up with not enough video! Also as my last wedding my camera completely froze during the exit (which is THE most important bit at South Asian weddings) and I had to rely on another camera which only went up to 720! And then of course there is the shutter speed banding at my brother's wedding! It was the first time I had encountered it and I had no idea how to fix/prevent it! Very frustrating... but of course, every mistake is a lesson.

Only been in the game for a year and a half, but have a few. 1) double, triple check lavs and zoom H1s. Had a groom return the zoom after the ceremony and it had fallen out of his pocket. When he put the lav back on, he plugged it into the headphone jack and not the input. Had horrible audio for speeches at the reception. 2) Carrying maps as stated. Went to shoot a wedding in the mountains. After the reception, I had to go back to the cabin to grab a light forgotten during prep and got lost. Drove around making random turns for an hour because no GPS or phone signal. The wedding was over, yes but my second shooter was stuck at the reception venue clueless of whats going on (we drove together).

@adamhendrix8235

8 жыл бұрын

+Vahe Chamesian Just tapped over my H1's output jack thanks to your comment. I rarely need to listen to the audio through headphones anyways.

@vahechamesian4457

8 жыл бұрын

That's EXACTLY what I did after I found out.

I had a memory card fail on me at my first Wedding. It was a 32GB card so that was a large chunck of my capacity for the day. Luckily it was right at the end of the ceremony so i was able to keep restarting it for some creative shots. I left the church ahead of the photographer and the bridal party so i could stop off and grab some more cards. I then purchased 2 32GB cards to replace the one. That was also lucky because later in the night i realised that i would have run short of memory by around 10GB if i had purchased just one 32GB card. I have now doubled my capacity!

I misplaced a DV tape of the ceremony years ago and the church cleaner found it weeks after the wedding! thought I'd die! mistakes can happen and equipment can let you down, I'd also suggest bringing paracetamol and immodium (diarrhea medication) for unexpected illness. Good tip about protecting your stuff, I've always left my bags in the reception dinning room and walked away believing it's safe but you're right... you Can't trust anyone and it only takes one time to ruin your business. Good video and I always watch your stuff... but I can't believe you went for a nap and woke up at 1pm on the day of a wedding!!?? who does that??

I was shooting a music video. We did a slow motion shot in 60 fps. It took me two takes of the next scene before I realized I forgot to switch my camera back to 24 fps.

I've had the 5dMKII just switch it's self off, right just before the bride said I do. Wouldn't come back on for over 30 seconds. Needless to say, I missed the I do from the bride and kiss... I felt sick fore the rest of the day. I had a lav on the groom and the photographer gave me some stills so I was able to fill the gap with a little slideshow and sound. :) Never used the 5D again for video.

One question, would you recommend getting a portable drive which does media backups when you plug in the SD card? So to then have a 2nd copy just to be safe? Is this something you have done?

@WeddingFilmSchool

3 жыл бұрын

I'd just buy multiple drives and have a system in place for having footage double backed up locally as well as in the cloud. No need for a specific drive that reads cards internally or something - Bobby

very nice :)

Shot my first wedding and sort of ran out of batteries... Luckily it was near the end of the reception and I only missed the cake cutting some of the dances. I went ahead a bought extra battery packs. Near the end I desperately searched for an outlet had to charge one battery as I shot with the others.

Some of my mistakes so far have been: A) The address for the church went to the wrong city (even when you type the correct city in), thankfully I left early enough to still get there in time, and now I always check multiple map services. B) I lost a memory card at the reception, got lucky and a photographer found it. Now I double check placement of a full memory card, and I do an inventory on all gear before leaving venue. I've been lucky so far.

I screwed up on my first one.. bad focusing, not sharp, i didnt clean my sensor, there is a few important moments that i missed to shoot.. i shot more on grooms side than brides side, the groom was my close friend during my childhood.. and i broke one of their labeling thing.. but im glad my first client are happy, because i captured their beautiful ceremony, and i was hoping to get a second client.... Waiting.......

I recorded a wedding by myself this last weekend in which I was recording the first dance with the DJI Mavic indoors. I was so worried about the drone/camera performance inside and with low light, not to mention the people coming over realizing I was flying the drone, that I forgot to hit record...

I've accidentally reformatted a hard drive which had the only copy of all my 2015 weddings on it...I did a recovery and got back about 75% of each wedding...which isn't too bad when you consider how much of your footage you usually use anyway. However, very important pieces were missing from each wedding...first kiss, bride walking down the isle, vows, first dance....ughhhhhh!!! Now everything is backed up!!!

Be overly transparent about what you can offer and what you will deliver. Do not leave any room for assumption. I've delivered a 3 minute highlight and a 10 minute film to a couple only to get a reply along the lines of "How long until the final version is ready?" They were, for whatever reason, expecting a 4 hour cut even though that was never mentioned....

@loganhunt8029

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Sipione 4 hour cut?! God damn people

wow so many of us in the field share the same nightmares, actual bad dreams at night, where we miss the ceremony but thankfully nobody ever actually does...dude!! Nightmare come true. As for the same address in different spots, been there too. I went to the house on highway 7 but after I got there and all I saw was corn fields, I learned there was ANOTHER highway 7 elsewhere... who names these roads?? I SPED like a crazy man to get to the real location, got pulled over, cop told me that yeah, there are 2 separate highway 7s and still gave me a full ticket.