Wedding Videographer Tutorial by The VideoChump!

For the bride and groom to be, choosing a wedding photographer has always been a last minute task that should be researched thoroughly. In more recent times, the wedding videographer has become almost as popular and should be given as much thought.

In choosing a videographer, one that would be working on my wedding, I'd be most concerned with one thing, experience. The person behind the camera would have to prove to me that he's not practicing his craft on my special day, that he knows what he's doing and is capable of being creative as well as detail oriented. Many amateur videographers or those that are trying to get into the business start out by working on weddings, and like in most things, you learn from your mistakes. Unfortunately they make mistakes on somebody's wedding day, a day that unlike TV and movies, cannot be recreated.

Get familiar with the recommendations in the Wedding Videographer Tutorial by The VideoChump!.

Critique of Pool Hall Videos

I've been mulling over the idea of making a short clip with a pool table as the central prop. This brings to mind ideas about angles and lighting for the pool table. Here are three short videos I bookmarked for inspiration and reference.

• The Railroad Shot
• Billiard Shot
• Sweet Pool Tricks

Opinions?

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

This music video is simple and yet amazing for one amusing reason. The members of the band did this complex routine with the treadmills in one continuous shot.

Update (2006/12/28): Wired News has a Year in Review in Online Video article that discusses this video among many others. Here's a good quote.

If the '80s was the golden age of music videos, YouTube has brought us into the silver age, where online videos reach an audience tired of having to wade through reality shows on MTV to get their video fix. Pop band OK Go rode this trend in late July, when its video featuring a killer combination of treadmills, low-key gymnastics and thrift-store fashion caught the attention of the online community. MTV, now the follower rather than the leader, booked the band for its Video Music Awards show.

Animusic - Pipe Dream

Here's another favorite recently rediscovered. This one is all computer animation. What's inventive about this one is the mixture of computer animation and music and the matching.

From the first Animusic DVD. Pipe Dream has been voted one of the 50 greatest animation projects ever (by 3D World magazine). A group of percussion instruments perform music by way of metal balls that fly out from pipes.

I'm still trying to figure out the behind the scenes on this one. Did they program the video and match it to the song, or did they program the environment and instruments and then feed in the song and let the computer "play" them?

Either way... Enjoy!

George Lucas In Love

Here is another of our favorites. George Lucas In Love is an interesting twist on an existing story or fairy tale. Almost like a comedian's stand-up routine, it has a set-up, then a punch-line, all delivered with somewhat recognizeable characters and consistent with known plots.

A full DVD copy of George Lucas In Love can be obtained for your collection.