The tips would have been helpful if I'd PLANNED in advance! It doesn't matter how good your camera, how steady your shot or how well framed the subject - but if you can't find the "right" place to stand, you're knackered!!! So if you can't go to a rehearsal, make sure you scout ahead and get there early.
Just as importantly, get an itenary for the day and start a new tape for each "key event". This will both ensure that the tape doesn't end "mid speach", and make for easier capture and placement in "bins".
Another tip would be to to talk to the photographer. Perhaps I was unlucky, but the photographer at my mate's wedding was completely unhelpful. One time she walked past the cam in the middle of a speach!!! |