The weekend

Today is Monday, *sigh* and that means my weekend is over. But.. my weekend is generally the time I do the most work? I have Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays off from work so I can focus on my college classes, and that is a pretty nice little vacation from work I look forward to every Monday evening.

This past weekend, as I mentioned in my previous post, was pretty packed with things I had to do. The main one of course being the wedding. I got ready and arrived right around 5pm, even though it didn’t start until 6pm (I wanted to be early.) Not many people were there, I never met anyone involved before, and I felt really out of place. The wedding started on-time and the actual ceremony lasted about 30 minutes. I shot a continuous shot the entire time and I regret not bringing a tripod for this particular segment. I was a little shakey, maybe some image stabalizing editing will do the trick though.

After the ceremony, it was time for the reception. It was at the same place so I just walked around. The music was really loud and I wasn’t able to really hear people and I knew the people I would interview wouldn’t be heard on the tape, so I decided not to get individual guests speaking into the camera as I was originally planning. I got all the good parts, the first dances, the speeches, the slide show, the cutting of the cake, the entertainer, people dancing, traditional wedding things. I basically had the camera on and recording the entire night. I used 4 tapes, getting about 3 hours worth of footage. (Man, that is a lot!) So I got a lot to work with for editing it into a DVD for the family.

As the night continued, I got more comfortable being around the people and getting closer during the important parts, so I am feeling pretty confident that I will be able to have a good product once I am done with everything. The only issues I have that I am worrying about was the lighting. Whenever dancing or center events that didn’t require any speaking, they had the lights really dim. I am not sure if I will be able to mess with the digital exposure to make this more visible or not, but I got enough footage maybe it won’t matter. (Hopefully.)

All in all, I enjoyed doing it. I know where I messed up, I know where I can improve, and I think the next time I do something similar, I will be more prepared and it will go a lot smoother. I would do it again.