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Re: Explaining your reasons to a bride?

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Originally Posted by Chris Harding (Post 1865420)

It's the same scenario with a videographer choosing his very best sample to show them prior to booking ..it might have been perfect weather, a perfect venue and an extremely photogenic couple and even different cameras!!! Let's face it some weddings do come out a LOT better than others and it's not even our fault ... the priest wanders off to a far corner so your audio sucks, the light is bad etc etc I still prefer the couple to sample at least my last 3 weddings so they know they are current shoots and it's a closer representation of what their's will look like ... it better than showing off a perfect wedding and then they come back and say "Ours looks nothing like your sample"

Chris

I totally agree with you Chris, I always take along a selection of recent weddings for them to look at as much or as little as they want of a real wedding, complete with obese brides and torrential rain if that was the recent scenario. Like that, they know exactly what to expect without trying to push an idyllic and untypical demo. More importantly though, they can see how you handle difficult or unexpected circumstances.

Roger

Re: Explaining your reasons to a bride?

Hi Roger

Yep, I would MUCH rather lose a bride booking than gain an order that I know won't make her happy!

I think the comment I usually use is "so there are no nasty surprises when you deliver the video"

BTW: Keep us up to date about using your quad gimbal as a handheld "stedicam" .... I need to dump my big rig now. Getting way too old to carry all that weight

Chris

Re: Explaining your reasons to a bride?

Hi Chris, the quad gimbal steadycam will most likely be a Winter project as we are still doing some weddings and the school play season will also be on us in a few weeks. Will report on any progress though.

Roger