Meet the Author: What am I going to talk about?
Hello everyone, my name is Stas, and this is my new blog.
Briefly about me in numbers: I have been editing wedding videos for 6 years, and have done so for more than 200 weddings. I took 9th place in an international competition of the best wedding videographers from around the world in 2019 in two categories.
I am also a former musician.
What I am going to be talking about
I have been editing wedding videos for 6 years now. Throughout that time I have always subscribed to the motto “How can I do better?” I constantly analyze myself, my work and the work of other videographers, both beginners and advanced. I have also analyzed filming and editing.
After some time, I began to notice that videographers often make the same mistakes, both in terms of filming and editing. There are always things that can be improved, which in turn will improve the wedding videos overall.
In this blog, I’m going to share my experience, knowledge base and the references that I have collected from colleagues and from cinema (knowledge about cinema is a must-have, we’ll talk about this later), so that all of us – both videographers and editors – become cooler and improve our results.
What you can expect to get from me
The main thing is the view from a professional wedding video editor.
1. Parsing mistakes
We will analyze the typical mistakes that wedding videographers make, both during shooting and editing.
2. Tips for shooting
You’ll get tips on how to improve your footage in order to improve the quality and amount of your source material.
3. Tips and life hacks for editing wedding videos
We will also talk about technical issues and storytelling. Even if you edit yourself and know how to analyze the process and the results, it never hurts to get a fresh look.
My mission
I mentioned that I used to make music, but I had to give it up. However, one form of creativity is never too far off from another. I therefore turned to expressing myself by making wedding videos.
A wedding video is ultimately a story about people. Every wedding is different, just like every couple has their own story. My passion is to create wedding videos that tell these stories. My goal is to continue to improve my skills.
At the same time, I hope to help other videographers and editors hone their craft. It is important to me that the wedding video industry grows and improves, this is part of my mission. I want to participate in this development by helping you.
Why should you listen to me? My journey
I learned to make wedding videos on my own: I did not take any courses, and don’t show any certificates to my clients.
For my entire journey, I followed a similar path: I created → analyzed the result and the work process → in parallel, I noticed references and ideas for use in further projects → then I created.
In other words, I created, then put the ideas into practice, then created again… And so on for 6 years.
I am particularly inspired by cinema. In general, I acquired a huge part of my knowledge from professionally shot films. I believe that this is the surest way to reach a higher level: projecting knowledge from cinematography onto wedding videography. This is where I developed my eye for videography.
It’s like cooking a pizza: having traveled all over the world and visited numerous local restaurants, you can learn to cook the same food 20 times, and each time in a different way.
That’s all for now. In the near future, expect guides and analyses of mistakes on shooting and editing wedding videos on my blog. Stay tuned!