Wedding Videographer Northern Ireland: Storytelling Films
Filming the Story of Your Wedding Day with Authentic Candid Moments
As a Wedding Videographer in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast, I specialise in producing professional films with a cinematic touch. I discreetly film with 4k cameras, ensuring that no moment is missed. Book now for 2024 to 2026, and let’s create beautiful memories together.
Wedding Videographer Northern Ireland
If you’d like to know more, don’t hesitate to contact me as your wedding videographer in Northern Ireland. Wedding video is an essential part of your day, and I only take on a limited number each year, so if you are lucky that I’m free and available on your day, book me as soon as possible. My current times are 3 to 4 weeks after the filming but could be delayed in the summer months. Receipts can be provided. Visit wedding video FAQs for more info.
Wedding Videography
I travel all over the province as a wedding videographer in Northern Ireland, and much of the day is filmed as your day unfolds. I’m interested in incorporating words spoken on the day, which adds some extra depth and emotion. Sometimes, it’s from the ceremony, speeches, a reading, vows or even letters given to each other in the morning.
I don’t have a talented team, but I believe I bring years of experience, creativity, and skill to unique and special wedding films for my clients.
I have a passion for creating modern, cinematic wedding films that capture memories. I am aiming to film cinematic as I’m not interested in filming like on a large camcorder from yesteryear where everything is in focus all the time. My approach to wedding filmmaking is fun, relaxed, and unobtrusive, aiming to provide couples with heartwarming cinematic mementoes.
If you are outside of NI, contact me. Katherine and Damian both live in Australia and wanted to get married and have their reception in Northern Ireland, where the groom was born and raised, so Katherine booked me through email for their wedding video.
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PLAY INTRO
I thought I’d get behind the camera for a quick introduction and say hello. Some behind-the-scenes (BTS) of myself filming a ceremony.
How to book your Wedding Videographer
What to do on my website if you want to book me as your wedding videographer in Northern Ireland or ROI.
Browse by navigating the top menus on the website.
2. Visit my prices as this will give you a good idea.
3. Check my availability on your date by contacting me.
4. Book your wedding video. There is a booking fee needed.
5. Keep an eye on progress, you can still contact me for an update.
6. Drop me a Google rating, Facebook rating or both.
Wedding Video
What you get and a link to an example on this website or my wedding video YouTube channel.
Bridal preparations
The ceremony was filmed with two cameras
This may not be the whole ceremony, but I will film as much as I can
Reception
Speeches filmed with two cameras
This may not be the whole speech, but I will do my best to film as much as I can, if I have not recorded parts from either A or B cameras, I will be recording sound
The first dance with two cameras
Drone video footage
Location permitting, weather and time-dependent
Some technical details on your Wedding Videos
The wedding videos are 4k footage and filmed throughout the day with as much as the ceremony and speeches as I can film saved separately, about two to three hours long (2 - 3 hours). Unfortunately, things can happen while filming your wedding day, so I may need to move myself filming the A camera or move the B camera (which is filming on a tripod).
All audio recordings, i.e. ceremonies, readings and speeches, are synced to video for better superior sound.
A wedding highlights video of your day, which is not long at about eight to fifteen minutes (8 to 15 minutes). This is a creative edit, so sequences and video clips are all out of sequence. This is meant to convey your wedding day, and you can’t condense 2 hours’ worth of footage into a video highlight wedding. I believe the length to be the best balance while including all the key candid moments of your day.
Some DON’T give you all the footage.
It sounds dreadful, but some wedding videographers DON’T give you all the video footage for some reason, so be careful who you book. For example, I read a bride mentioning she got her wedding video after waiting a year (which is far too long!), and it is 24 minutes long. It’s not a highlight, and most of the video is covered by music, so you can’t hear the mass or conversations at bridal preparations, about 40% of the speeches are covered, and you can’t hear the band playing the first dance. Maybe they have stated this in their original contract. Yours should have been clear about what you can expect. I include a full ceremony, full speeches, other videos filmed throughout the day and a highlights video in all my packages.
Top Tips
Why you should avoid (most of the time) looking into the lens for video: on the wedding day, it's better not to look into the camera and lens, and I would be more interested in natural movement, something less posed and certainly less static. Wedding footage needs a bit more movement than still images, as I’m filming at 24 fps (frames per second).
What I need
I need footage that has more movement and is less static, which means something like chatting to the bridesmaids, family and guests or doing something, e.g. walking and holding hands, as wedding footage works best when you don’t even know you are being filmed! It looks a bit odd if you smile into the camera as there would be about a 5-second clip filmed, although the odd wee’ glance is perfectly fine and ok. Below is an example that I have produced using footage from the couples’ day with audio recordings linked to the video footage filmed. It’s essential to record audio, as I’ve seen several wedding videographers not record audio, which is completely nuts.
Northern Ireland Wedding Videos
Another example showing the highlights that I have produced using footage from the day with audio synced to the video footage for superior sound than if you simply record using the built-in camera microphone, which is pretty much the worst thing you can do. You must book a wedding videographer all day instead of just a part of the day as you’ll miss so much.
I may be available for a last-minute wedding video if you have left it a bit late, as this has happened in the past a couple of times. I was booked by this great couple, and I’m super glad they booked as they received a wedding highlight film along with hours of video footage and audio from bridal prep up to that killer must-have first dance that I’m sure will be cherished for a long time.
I run a video production service, so I’ll provide a breakdown of wedding videos as they contain not just one but several videos, some of which are filmed from certain camera angles I will be showing you, breaking down and explaining this in the following section. This can, of course, be applied to Ireland, too as I work mostly in NI, I will focus on these examples. Some parts, like the ceremony and speeches, have two cameras recording, my own and another camera on a tripod filming wide, which I call a B camera.
Watch my Wedding Films
Let’s look at some of a cinematic wedding film. This is a 10-15 minute highlights video with moments from various parts of the day edited together in one clip. This is ideal for sharing online as it is one video as opposed to multiple videos that can be quite time-consuming to watch all of, and not everyone has the time anyway. Feel free to play individual wedding videos from any of these. They don’t focus on one particular part of the day and use audio recording.
What’s my favourite Wedding Video?
Joanne and Michaels’s wedding video is my most viewed, closely followed by Linda and Peter’s. You can check out both for yourself in those two links. As well as highlights, they also got all additional wedding videos, including all footage filmed and audio.
My wedding videos are generally 2-3 hours long as you get a highlights video plus all additional coverage filmed from my two 4k cameras, which I use at the ceremony and speeches. This is essential as you’ll get coverage from a different angle and perspective. Each takes a while to craft and is not just cobbled together in no time. Each video takes time and care, telling the story of your day through video and audio. PLAY VIDEO
Screengrabs and video capture from some of my favourite wedding videos in Northern Ireland. I could show dozens of screen captures showcasing the couple’s wedding day, but I have just chosen a select number of captures from each part of the day, enjoy.
This particular wedding video is from Lusty Beg, as both the ceremony and reception were held here. As you can tell from the screengrabs, the wedding video is stunning, with plenty of guests in attendance. I filmed from preparations up to the couple’s first dance. What a day!
Weddings
I love filming weddings, and you can by clicking on one of the thumbnails below. These aren’t all wedding videos, though, so you will find others too.
Why you should book me as your Wedding Videographer
I’d vote for a wedding videographer in Northern Ireland for everything you get rather than tiny snippets. Video will also stand the test of time. I regret not having a videographer, so many of our friends talk about watching the video or teasers time and time again! I’d recommend it.
Professional audio, lighting, editing, and so much more are not possible with an iPhone or smartphone. Audio is the absolute top priority for vows and speeches, as these may be completely missed by a content creator.
I got a video done, and it was the best decision we made. The day goes like a whirlwind, and it means you see so much of it, and it's something to have for life. We get a highlight video, which is shorter and able to show people. It gives you the flow of the day and is what people I know who didn't book one regretted.
Cinematic Wedding Videographer
I am to be a cinematic wedding videographer, but what does this mean? It has more to do with your 8 to 15-minute highlights wedding film than your actual wedding videos. You need a good quality lens for this as you need to film mostly wide open at f/1.8 aperture, preferably with some movement and with something in the foreground that can be blurred out (which is why filming wide open at f/1.8 is ideal). A basic wedding video just doesn’t cut it, I’m afraid.
It’s not just the way your cinematic wedding film has been filmed it’s also the way it’s been edited. Basic wedding videographers don’t spend much time editing, actually very little, which is a shame. On the other hand, cinematographers spend a lot of time in post-production editing to create a more polished cinematic film. There’s quite a big difference.
Wedding Video Service Areas
I film all over NI, the border counties in ROI, and it does not matter about travel as there are no travel expenses, so if you are up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim or even somewhere in the middle of County Down, I’d love to hear from you.
Wedding Videographer Belfast
To learn more about your wedding videographer in Belfast, there is plenty to read and explore on this page. If you are a future bride and groom looking for beautiful wedding videography in Belfast, I’d love to chat with you. If you think I am a good fit for your city wedding, get in touch.
Other Areas
Wedding videos in Portadown, Armagh and Lurgan. My wedding videography in the county tells the story of your big day through audio and video. There are a few places beside Armagh City Hotel where you can have your ceremony and reception. I also film wedding videography all over, so if you are having your ceremony and reception anywhere else, contact me with more information and details. One of my favourite cities is Londonderry as you have the River Foyle. If you’d like to book me in Derry, just send me an enquiry.
TELLING THE LOVE STORY OF YOUR BIG DAY
