Teen Tech

I’ve been really busy this past weekend.  It was the wedding of my church youth director and the church’s secretary’s son.  About two weeks ago, I was asked by the bride to film the wedding.  I agreed.  Friday (May 4), I went to the site of the wedding (which was going to be outdoors at a baseball field barring any complications) for the rehearsal at about noon.  It was going to be a great baseball themed wedding with an arch of bats with the bridesmaids on one side and the groomsmen on the other side with the new bride and groom passing through them.  After the rehearsal, the bridal party and I went to dinner at the pastor’s house.  I didn’t get home until about nine o’clock PM.

The next day was the actual ceremony.  They decided to move the ceremony indoors because of the wind and the chance of rain.  Well everything that I had planned for all three cameras was out the window.  I was lucky that the people were coming in from stage left and not the center otherwise, I could not have had my center camera.  We got through the ceremony with very few issues, and even those may be able to be remedied.

After the ceremony is always the reception.  I had to be there for the whole thing getting it on tape.  I didn’t have the agenda, which turned out to be somewhat of an issue, but it worked out.  I was in that reception hall from noon until six o’clock PM.  I thought that my job was done, but no.  The bridal party invited me to go bowling with them, so I just had to go.  I didn’t bowl higher than a 125 which is rather bad for me.  Then I went home after two games.  It was about nine o’clock again.

Then, the next day, I had to go to church to return one of the cameras that I had to borrow and to go to service and youth group.  It was then that I learned that the bride and groom were having an open house where they would be opening gifts, so I had to go to that.  That was another hour and a half of standing to get good footage.

Now I sit at home, tired, and glad that all of the filming is done.  I just have about five hours of raw footage that needs to be edited including the rehearsal, the three cameras from the ceremony, the reception and now the open house, all which needs to be spliced together with the audio seamlessly (the ceremony will be hardest with the three angles), and not enough hard drive space to store all of it.  Fun.  It’ll be done in about a week, but until then, I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.

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