Something tells me that you have a red zipper jacket. :]


As for the topic, I think of event videography as art. Because if you as a videographer can connect with your client, mold the video to match their dreams and personalities, then that takes a creative expression. If I show up, hit the record button, then burn it to DVD, then I'm a video producer. That's my two cents. It is similiar, and I say similar to an incredible photo, the photographer either has the eye for the money shot or can somehow draw it out of the person being photographed.

In an age of self expression and individual tastes, this is where emphasising the artistry of video production will change mindsets. Then I can get rid of my neon orange shoe laces :}

"mold the video to match their dreams and personalities"
"Photographer has an eye for the money shot or can somehow draw it out of the person being photographed"

Two very important distinctions,
one is to create, illustrate, document something that the couple may think, imagine, assume!...

On the other hand, we as creative individuals behind the camera dream up, visualize, create a concept, a mood, distinguish what is "divine and mundane", not always translate what is, but what it could be, if it would be a particular (yet limited, by the means we have "art form"

IMO, that were the term "art" can signify particular meaning,
on a crossroad of what is (wedding as a particular event) and our creative imagination!

second that!

I am sure once you show your work to people, suddenly they don't care if you do Ads or weddings :)

Interesting about bad rep of doing weddings for commercial work and vice versa,
can't say same thing, on the web site I have all kinds of work, divided in three sections,
I really believe that one complement the others. The level of work showed, what matters,
Tv and Film producers may think that it's a bad rep to do wedding videos, on the other hand, after watching it, if a wedding promo looks like a commercial or a film trailer, relative to a budget spent, it can give a lot of credit to a creator! IMO

Hey Oleg,

Like Peter said, it's not an issue once people see our work ... it is usually in the stages before that - i.e. When you meet someone new and they ask what you do for a living ... that sort of thing.

If people's frame of reference for what you do is based on the poor perception of others in the same field ... then you can be tarnished with the same brush just by association, regardless of the quality of work you do.

This is especially so in my area where a lot of potential brides may have never seen a well produced wedding video - and when a wedding video is already a 2nd thought or the first thing to be dropped from their budget.

Anyway, I like the point that John made ... I wouldn't refer to myself as an artist but if clients or anyone else perceives me as one then that's fine.