Catholic Wedding videographers in Boston, MA.
About Boston’s Best Catholic Wedding videographers.
Even though we are seeing more and more weddings with outdoor ceremonies, I always feel like the Catholic Wedding with a full mass and communion is the way to go if you are looking for a traditional wedding ceremony. There is something magical about the church. Whenever I walk into a church I feel good. Maybe it’s because of my childhood memories. I was never very religious, but I did go to the church with my grandma almost every day, when I was with her, and I cherish these memories till today.
We have filmed 100’s of Catholic Weddings, and I think that I could say with confidence that we are a very experienced Catholic Wedding Videographers.
There is a lot of beautiful churches in Boston, and the whole New England area.
Our Catholic Wedding Films.
Three Questions to ask your Videographers before your Catholic Wedding Ceremony.
1.How are you capturing the Audio?
Audio is an interesting thing when we are talking about the video. You’d think that the images on the screen are far more superior to the audio that you are listening to. It’s actually not true. Of course it depends on what kind of video or film you are watching, but if you want to watch a good movie, documentary, or anything with story involved, you’ll learn very quickly about the importance of the audio. Without the audio, you wouldn’t know what the story is about, and perhaps this gets even worse, when there is some audio there, but it’s not recorded properly, and you just can’t understand anything. The same is true for our wedding videos, or what we call Cinematic Wedding Films. We are structuring our films as movies. Meaning we are using audio captured throughout the day, like the ceremony, or speeches, and creating a story, movie based on this audio, about you and your wedding, told by the most important people in your lives.
When I filmed my first wedding in 2007, it happened to be a catholic wedding in the church, with a full mass and a communion. At that time, I didn’t have the best plan regarding my positioning in the church or audio capturing. The video has turned out good, and the couple loved their wedding video, but I wasn’t able to capture the vows, or any other important audio during the ceremony. I knew I had to figure out a way for me to be able to do that next time.
Today we are running multiple audio recorders throughout the whole days, as audio is key for our wedding films. We are using lavalier microphones, one for the groom, one for the priest, and one on the podium for the readers. This way we are able to capture all of the important words spoken during the catholic ceremony. But we don’t stop here, as a backup, which you should always use, with audio, we are using a field audio recorder, to capture the audio from the whole wedding ceremony. The best way is to ask the church about their in house audio board, which they would sometimes allow us to use, or find a speaker in the church and record your backup audio from the speaker. Lastly, use a good quality microphones on your cameras.
2. How many videographers will be capturing my Wedding Ceremony?
This kind of depends on your wedding budget, and therefore will determine the number of videographers capturing your wedding ceremony. If you are working with one videographer, make sure that he uses multiple cameras. Ideally three. That may seem a lot to handle for one person, but that’s my preferred way of capturing an event like wedding in case I’m filming by myself. This doesn’t happen very often, as I prefer two videographers during the wedding day. If you’d like to learn more about One Videographer vs Two videographers click here to read more.
So if you have hired one videographer only, three cameras would be the best way to capture. One camera needs to stay always with a wide lens, capturing everyone at the altar, shown in the image below.
Second camera is used to capture a closeup angle of the bride and groom, priest, or the readers. shown at the image below.
Third camera is on the gimbal, which is a stabilizing device, that I can quickly pickup and be mobile and smooth with my capture. Very useful during the processional or recessional. Obviously there are other ways of capturing, this is the way I like to cover my events as a solo shooter.
In the case of two videographers coverage, you should be getting the proper wedding ceremony coverage in my opinion. Two filmmakers allow for two closeup angles, shown at the images below, with a third camera being used for wide angle.
3. How many cameras are you going to be using and where are they going to be placed?
The number of cameras used will partially depend on the number of videographers, but it’s not always the case. As I discussed above, I may use three cameras during the solo coverage, but it also depends on the size of the church or venue where the catholic ceremony takes place. The better way to film a catholic ceremony is to use two videographers, that way, they can can film a closeup angle of both bride and groom during their vows, images shown above, as well as look for emotional reactions of family members or friends attending the wedding, as shown in the image below.
The placement of the cameras is also very important, and you always need to adjust to the church, or venue, where the wedding ceremony is taking place, but in most cases, 4 cameras used, two placed on sides, one in the middle isle, and camera number 4 on a stabilizing gimbal works very well for us.
BOURNE FARM WEDDING, CAPE COD, SALT POND BIRD SANCTUARY, NORTH FALMOUTH, MA, Molly & Mike.
