The other day I got a request from a friend to digitize her VHS wedding video. Luckily I hadn't got rid of my vhs player which I had planned to toss to trim back all my old tech lying around.
Watching the wedding video from 1990 it's amazing how much tech has improved and the way weddings are filmed. This one no doubt used one big shoulder eng camera. No fancy editing, multi camera angles, slow motion, gimbal, shallow dof, etc. As a viewer with no vested interest, I actually didn't care about all the stuff I normally obsess over and appreciated simple documentary approach being able to see the whole event not only focusing on the bride and groom. You appreciate all the little ordinary things of the day. Contrast with today's approach of crafting a cinematic short that eliminates all the "boring" stuff.
Watching the wedding video from 1990 it's amazing how much tech has improved and the way weddings are filmed. This one no doubt used one big shoulder eng camera. No fancy editing, multi camera angles, slow motion, gimbal, shallow dof, etc. As a viewer with no vested interest, I actually didn't care about all the stuff I normally obsess over and appreciated simple documentary approach being able to see the whole event not only focusing on the bride and groom. You appreciate all the little ordinary things of the day. Contrast with today's approach of crafting a cinematic short that eliminates all the "boring" stuff.
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