Woody Wilder, Video #2, Mike's Wedding

Farm Wedding Breaks All Traditional Norms from Woody Wilder on Vimeo.

I had an awesome time doing this project. Last weekend I was in the wedding of one of my very good friends, so I decided to do my project on the wedding. It was a little complicated and inconvenient, but I think in the end, I was able to tell a pretty cool story. There were a few challenges to getting the photos and audio. Since I was in the wedding, I was not able to photograph the wedding itself. I was able to photograph parts of the rehearsal, the setup before the wedding, and in-between taking groomsman pictures, I was able to get a few after the wedding, and then at the reception. Side note: at the rehearsal dinner I was able to talk to their wedding photographer and she gave me some helpful tips. As far as the audio goes, I recorded the interview on the recorder we had. I interviewed him about 2 hours before the wedding, which I felt was awesome because he was nervous and could tell his answers--unlike his normal sarcastic, offensive self--were sincere. The actual audio of the wedding (the processional music along with the pastor (my father actually) performing the ceremony) presented a little more of a challenge. The wedding was outside, so luckily the wind wasn't as bad as it could have been; however, I tried putting the recorder inside of my tuxedo pocket, but that was utter failure. So I asked my brother's fiance to record the wedding on her iPhone. I had to improvise here and was actually in the dark because I had no idea if the sound would turn out or not, but luckily we played it back and it was pretty good. With the audio portion of the slideshow, I intertwined the processional music, his interview and the pastor performing. Figured I'd take a bit of a risk and try something a little different, so I had the processional music play for the entire slideshow, but lowered to a point where it was still audible, but not distracting when the voices were playing. Overall, I think it worked quite well. I tried to correspond the pictures with the audio the best I could. The thought process behind this was to add a new picture every time the audio switched from music to each respected voice. I wasn't too particularly pleased the way the pictures turned out in the slide show. It was tough to make them bigger without losing a lot of focus. The size of the pictures in the slideshow are as big as I could get them without suffering a major focus setback. I played around with the effects a little bit, but in the end I couldn't figure them quite out the way I wanted to so I held off this time around. It'll be something I definitely want to work on going forward. In the end, it was an awesome experience. It helped that Mike was onboard with the idea of me doing the project.