Editing my brother’s wedding video

As a wedding present to my brother, I edited his wedding video. (If you’re wondering, I didn’t shoot it – a good buddy of mine and my unofficial videography guru Ugo did).
After finishing Ryan’s wedding, I feel like I learned a lot more about what a wedding video means to a family. For the past 4 years I’ve been looking at wedding videos from an artist perspective (getting the creative shots, the clip variety, the shot transitions and shooting-to-edit styled videography). But editing this wedding was so different than making a piece of art for me. Don’t get me wrong, I gave their wedding the same digital treatment I give all my clients, but I got all cholked up at the shots of my family smiling, laughing and being with our extended family. Sure the crazy shot angles, shutter tricks and rack focuses are really, really nice – but it’s the content of the participants who make the shots special.
I’m going to take this knowledge with me as I am shooting all my weddings. And I think it will make me a better shooter still.