WELCOME Thank you for contacting us about your wedding. This packet is intended to try to answer any questions you may have about the process of booking your wedding with Overflow Productions. Please feel free to look over the information and if you need further explanation, email us at info@hermankimphotography.com or call us at 310-916-8296. Thank you for letting us film your wedding and share in the day’s experience.
EXPLANATION OF PACKAGE ITEMS AND TERMS Sometimes we totally nerd out and forget that most people don’t know what we’re talking about when it comes to filmmaking. Every one has their niche and ours is video production. To make things easier, we try to explain processes and terms in a simplified manner to help our clients but sometimes it is still too confusing. To try to help make this communication better, we’ve broken down our terms.
COVERAGE refers to the time spent by our cinematographer(s) filming your wedding. Depending on your package, there might be one, two or three cinematographers and/or editors working. Having this team allows us to cover more angles and capture more footage. It is especially helpful to have multiple people on cameras during the prep, ceremony, first look or reception dances and speeches. To be more specific, a CINEMATOGRAPHER as compared to a videographer is a term to describe their attention to capturing more of a story-based film. All of our second cinematographers at Overflow Productions has been trained by Herman Kim on how to shoot in his style and work on a wedding team-based project. We like to think of ourselves as professional filmmakers who shoot weddings.
FEATURE FILMS are the main piece created from our wedding footage and depending on the amount of coverage recorded at your wedding and package option, it can be from 4-20 minutes long. This film is the best edit that we can create and features detailed story-based video editing, audio design, color correction and industry standard file processing.
A DOCUMENTARY EDIT is a chronological account of the entire wedding day broken into chapters. This film includes all of the footage that didn’t make it into the feature film edit. You’ll find preparation, ceremony, reception, speeches, dances, cake cutting and all other footage in this cut of your wedding. The ceremony, speeches and dances are professionally recorded with multiple audio sources so you can hear your vows, any readings, the best man/maid of honor’s speeches and the songs you and your parents dance to. We shoot with multiple cameras so that every angle and every second is covered.
The delivery of your WEDDING PACKAGE is guaranteed on the three-month anniversary of your wedding day. The final package you will receive is a digital file that will sent electronically to your email. Your videos are .mov files and are playable on any computer or USB-compatible device. Your feature film is also uploaded to vimeo and youtube so you can watch online and share with your friends/family.
HELPFUL INFORMATION ABOUT WEDDING CINEMATOGRAPHYLet us help educate you on how you can get a better wedding film by following some simple tips and tricks
LET’S BOOGIE Who doesn’t love a little music to move to while getting ready for your special day? Just keep in mind the louder the music is, the more potential exists to muffle out our audio, specifically all the lovely dialogue exchanged during prep! If possible, keep the music low or off all together.
DON’T MIND YOUR MANNERS YOU are NEVER in our way! Tell your wedding party and other guests not to worry about moving out of the way for our shots - let us move around you. We strive for beautiful, natural-looking cinematography and the best way to do that is when people are moving about freely. We promise to capture every last detail for your final product!
KEEPING IT IN MOTION Here at Overflow Productions, we shoot all our footage on Mirrorless cameras, in simpler terms, we tend to look a lot like photographers to the guests at your wedding. Please let people know that we are shooting video, not photographs - clarity all around means better looking shots for your final product! We’ve gotten a few “photo requests” from guests at past events, who were a little disappointed when they didn’t find these photos in the photographers final event album.
ALL THE LITTLE THINGS In films past, we find some of the most unique and memorably sweet moments we’ve captured are those like first looks and gift/note exchanges before the walk down the aisle. It is your day, so you call the shots, but you might want to give one or both of these ideas a second look if you haven’t incorporated them already. It is always the little things that set your wedding apart and make it one of a kind.
SAFETY IN NUMBERS At Overflow Productions, we will go to any lengths to ensure the best product is being produced for you and your significant other, and sometimes that means we travel in teams! Depending on your wedding size, the package you choose to purchase and location, there may be multiple videographers shooting on your special day. Don’t worry, unless agreed upon in the contract at an earlier date, this is no extra charge to you and promises to only improve the quality of your final film.
MAKING MOVES You might notice that we refer to ourselves as “cinematographers” instead of videographers. We are in fact shooting digital video as the word ‘video’ suggests and not shooting with ‘film’ as cinematographers suggests. But the difference is more of how we film. We place more of an effort on storytelling as film makers rather than just covering events with video cameras in hand. That means for attention to detail, the connections between the people at your wedding, and the emotions that make your day memorable.
CONTRACT After a conversation on the phone to see if we are a good fit for each other, a contract will be drafted for your wedding. Sometimes a couple isn’t always a good fit for our services and that’s alright. We would be happy to refer you to another company that we’ve worked with before that has a different focus because fitting you best is most important. But if we both have decided that we are a great match for each other, the contract is the next step in the process. We’ll send it via email, have you look it over, sign it, and send it back with your retainer. We ask for a $500 retainer on the signing of the contract and the rest of the final payment at least one week before the night of the wedding.
CALL SHEET The next step is to plan out how we will shoot your wedding. We send a questionnaire long before your wedding to make sure we have all of the information we need. We make sure that we get all of the information we need so that we’re ready to start filming the moment we get to your wedding. We also understand that things can get a little crazy the week before the big day so that is why we send out the questionnaire way before. We will draft a call sheet that has all of the information we need for your wedding. Review it and we’re all set!
SHARING YOUR FILMS We love to share our new films with our friends just as much as you do. We will host a premiere of your highlight film on our Facebook page. Please feel free to share your video on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and any other social media platform. We also love when our couples tag our Facebook page on their film too so help us connect with people who love watching it. Feel free to tag your friends and family in the link as well so your best man can see him giving his hilarious toast, your maid of honor can watch her tear-jerking speech, and everyone can enjoy re-living the day.
LEGAL ALWAYS SOUNDS BETTER It is illegal to use copy written music without proper licensing in your edited films. The other option is to buy license songs from websites like ArtList.io. If you find any selections on the sites that you especially like, let us know and we’ll do our best to fit the music into your films.
GIVE US A REVIEW After you’ve seen us at work and have fallen in love with your wedding films, please feel free to review us on theknot.com. It helps us get the word out to other couples looking to have their day captured. Not only is it good karma to pay things forward, but we just plain love it when we make our couples happy and they let us know. We have the best couples, thank you!
THANK YOU! If you have any question, please fee free to ask away. We love answering questions! We look forward to meeting with you and capturing a moment in your lives that you’ll cherish for the rest of your lives. Video truly is the best way to record these moments and we’re glad that you’re trusting us with this special task. You’ll now be able to share your happiest day with those who were not able to make it, your grandparents, your children and yourselves years from now. We know you’ll love re-living your wedding day. Thank you.