Korean Job Discussion Forums

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

I'm getting married in a couple of weeks and was told it will cost about 400,000 won to have someone record everything. I've got a Canon HV30 HD camcorder and I thought I might just have a friend record everything for me instead. Is it worth paying the money to have a "professional" do it? Did you get a DVD of the days events edited together, or was it just the raw footage?

DAC · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Location: South Korea

Got an amateur videographer friend? Someone who knows that it'll make people sick if he zooms in and out crazy-fast? Get him or her. Save the $400 and the annoyance of having the pro so close that if you turn your head, you'll whack it on the camera lens that he's pointing at you. Really kills the sacredness of the wedding, if you ask me.

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

When I got married I had a camera set up behind the altar for our faces, and I had relatives man two other cameras. Later on I edited them together on the computer and the final cut was very nice. If you have any video editing skills you might do this, so that if one person is not a good hand with a camera you have other recordings to fall back on. There can be an art to video photography but taping a wedding service is not terribly difficult.

My pastor was fine with video cameras but I've met a few churches who didn't like them. I don't imagine that's a problem in tech-crazy Korea, but just to be sure I would ask wherever you're getting married.

And by the way, congratulations. Cool

Ken:>