tips for a great highlight
Card/Letter Exchage
A great video always starts with a great narrative! Exchanging a card with your fiancé on the morning of your wedding is an awesome chance to reflect on how far you two have come, as well as get some great audio content for your highlight film! You can’t really predict what your best man’s speech is going to sound like or what stories your maid of honor might share, so this would be a guaranteed way to create a moment that the editor can use while telling your love story!
If you decide to do a card exchange, we ask that you and your fiancé keep a copy of the card you've written in addition to the car you'll be receiving, this way you can read both on the morning of! It may not sound intuitive, but this gives the editor freedom to use your audio reading from the first person, and this makes all the difference!
Your Video Vision Form will give you the option to select doing a card reading or not, so we recommend checking that box!
Choosing The Music
As artists, we love getting to pick the music for the films that we create! After working with the couple and reviewing the footage, being able to explore different songs and finding what suits the vibe of the wedding best makes for (in our opinion) a much better video! However, many couples really care about this aspect of the process and want to choose their own music or at least be involved in the process, and that's totally okay!
For copyright purposes we only use licensed music. (This is covered in your package costs!) We license our music through two different websites:
Music Bed offers a wide variety of music from cinematic cuts to independent folk artists! This is our favorite site to license from because we feel it has the most original and most inspiring music.
Song Freedom you will find some more traditional and popular tracks such as The Lumineers and Maroon 5.
Here are some examples to songs we like working with:
Cinematic Erie Feel (Emotional)
Party Feel (Good for dance scenes)
Here are some of our curated playlists:
Please take some time to explore these websites! Once you have chosen your music, submit your video vision form. As always, please let us know if you have any questions regarding this!