MAKE MONEY FILMING EVENTS & WEDDINGS | A Guide for CLUELESS VIDEO BEGINNERS! 

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Really helpful as I'm doing my first wedding at the end of November! Much thanks!

You’ve been an inspiration! We started our business in filming weddings a couple of years ago and your videos are so helpful!

Great video Jason! Thanks for the words of wisdom.

Jason - this was so valuable and on point thank you

Helpful. Thanks man!

Great, great, great video bro! Very informative! Thanks for sharing this!

Great video. Basically i am a photographer. I used to shoot some video in the early 90's. You hit the nail on the head about money wise. Gharge and know your worth. Never sell yourself short.

Yaaaas, I was hoping for a video like this! I know some people in the industry but have always been to shy to ask them.

Great video, JV!

Great, informative video. Still a noob for wedding video so this helps out a lot! Thanks

THANK YOU JASON😔 This is really helps! Wish I could be at your event in November. Please make more of this content. Wish you all the best

great vid as usual! nice meeting you last weekend at sony creative space!

Awesome video Mr. Vong, very informative and fun to watch. 1a. 4-5 minute definitely, love the basics of the video, but with a 4-5 minute video, you can only put in highlights of the talks, and that's ok. Audio is the glue to everything. You can skip on a stabilizer, but it does bring a ton of production value.

SCANDAL and ONE OK ROCK! thanks Jason. Two of my favourite bands!

Really nice video and very useful!

I hate weddings. I would rather film a divorce.

Matt Watson switched from the a7lll to the Z6 . Is the Z6 better?

I just needed this

Great video Jason! I'm curious, what client management software and invoicing software do you use/recommend?

Great topic!

Great info ! Still nervous. I’ll prob reach out to some local wedding photographer and intern/ shadow them . The way you laid it out was super dope !

I like your suggested video kit. Is it worth to upgrade from A6400 to A6600? Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial.

lol Im so glad you made this video i shot my first wedding & edit it my self for the first time i mean talk about being nervous lol but these are some great & i tips & all be adding to my gear

video i was looking for, gonna buy 18-105 f4 for my a6000

This is exactly what I was looking for today 😍

Thanks for making this. I just got booked for a cannabis dinner, so this gives me things to consider. 👍🏻

Excellent

Nice video los of information. Could you tell me more about the audio? I saw lots of RU-vid recommended wireless go Is that good for travel but not for paid jobs? Thanks

Nice video! So do you give the couple the raw footage as well? Or only the 20-40’ summary? If you film like 3 hours, all of that will be priceless when watching it during the 25th anniversary. I recently saw a video crew totally miss the moving speeches as they were too pre-occupied with artistic BS. They failed your second tip. Btw how good is the 18-135 for video? I thought the 18-105 was THE video lens for Sony APS-C

Please make a video on How to setup the camera on the Weebill

hey you were going to post sony 35mm 1.8 video right? when 😍

This has been a good video for me, I've been in a bit of a rut trying to find my "passion" and other millennial first world problems ;) I think getting back to basics and just doing some good work for some clients and then playing around on the side might be a good idea. Thanks!

very helpful 💯👍

very good video, I would love to see more of that also on Udemy, keep it up !! Maybe some editing Video Tips for Final Cut Pro and so on - this would be great!

Question. A6300 + ronin SC + sigma 16mm/sony 35mm. Auto or manual focus during weddings?

Last two years i was shooting every job on A6500 with Weebil Lab. Whole setup costs me about 800$... And if you are interested about the filmmaking, using your gear and you giving heart to your work, than you can deliver really nice films.

Jason is cool. 😎

Good to use story blocks for drone footage. Most RU-vidrs just shoot drone footage without a FAA license

this is a very nice vid. I'm currently starting with filming events. thumbs up!

Great video as usual Jason :) quick question: do you recommend having more than 1 camera for events such as the vidsummit you did in order to get a wide shot and a close-up shot?

Don't forget you will also need woosh transition presets and an M31 LUT as well. And of course... Need to build their wedding film website via Squarespace 🤝🤙🤣 Great video bro 👌👊

Hello Janson, How can I use TASCAM 05 to record from a DJ Console audio for my video?

What editing software to you use?

I think the biggest problem is people starting video or photography massively underestimate what is involved to produce a quality professional video or photo. You also need lights if you are filming speeches, otherwise the footage will be junk. Then there is the computer, editor app and how to use it. It cost a lot of money. Then there is working the camera, getting well exposed footage is pretty hard. Especially in changing light conditions. Then there is white balance. Shell i continue?

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I didn't know you know Craig Adams!....wow, I am a fan of you two.

Okay but which Philz beans are your favorite?? -Julie’s Ultimate is up there for me. 🥳☕️

Just one question Jason, how was your battery experience with the A6400? I'm kinda bit stuck of getting between the A6400 or the A6600. I own a A7iii, but somehow, I need a back up camera. Although I own a GH4, it always fail me because of the different color, even I use a V-Log profile or flat profile both camera. What would you suggest?

If you did a videographer course on udemy I would totally buy it!

I have filmed 2 weddings so far. Definitely undershot both of them. However the second one was DRASTICALLY better than the first. There are a million more things I learned from my second wedding as well. I would suggest doing as much research and practice before shooting your first wedding as possible, but actually doing it is definitely the best way to learn. DO NOT go in totally unprepared though.

When recording audio, the zoom h4n, hn1, n other recording options in the similar price range don’t have the option to record at a specific frame rate since it records in real time. Does it matter if we don’t record audio at the same frame rate as video? Are the video clips usually short enough where the video and audio don’t get out of sync? What are the best options to sync audio in post? Should one transcode the wav file in post to the video frame rate prior to importing to ur editing system? Sorry I don’t have much experience shooting weddings or events, but I want to learn. :)

Suscrito ✌😛

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unexpected one ok rock cameo in a jason video lol

Usually how long the final video will you done? 3 months or 1 month?

u didn't talk about flash ...i think its 2nd most important thing for weeding photographers after camera ...

Payment, 50% at front and 50% afterward? That neve worked for me. Usually vendors get paid at front, the DJ, does, the cake and everything else, why shouldn't you?

You should have some work footage done in order to start charging.

Minimum wage in Russia is about 200$ in a month )

Gimbal >tripod

Thank you very much...great video... i have some questions left..hope you like to reply: 1. how many months before the event do you accept and confirm bookings? I heard from people which accept 1-2 years before.. but how do I know how I will be in one year? what if I am ill? have no time... forget it.. etc.... noone can watch into the future.. 2. how many hours do you need after wedding for checking footage, selecting what you will use and not, editing video and getting an idea how do build up the videostory for an 4-6 minutes video and footage from about 4-6hours? 3. what will you do if you are ill on the "big" day or your cam is not working or your SD Card has an failure / is lost / stolen? do you have a special contract? how do you protect yourself against expensive claims from the customer? 4. do you always accept an order only when they made a deposit? (you never know if they still marry in 1 year e.g.), how much deposit do you ask for? 5. what framerate do you record and what shutter speed and aperture? 6. do you record slow motion in editing software? or directly during event? I think in normal mode recording and later deciding in editing software what I want in slow motion, or? thanks for your support and replies..

Why are most of your events composed of Japanese? And love the scandal and one ok rock there

Don't you find that the biggest consumer of man/woman hours is inevitably the edit? This is where most people will come a cropper when pricing an entire event.

Anyways......

Regular people dont care about 4k. Some dont even know what it looks like

Omg I don’t know a videographer who would show up for $150 lol - i bill on projects and a wedding is $2-3k

Jason, I'm going to have to put you on blast for this. Never, ever, ever, ever, do wedding videos unless you are saving up for a liver transplant that you need to save your life. It's the worst work in the world. It's a long day. It pays 1/10th of what a corporate gig pays. Brides are super picky. Most of you won't have cameras that can record for more then 30 mins with out over heating, or need a 1 second gap. That 1 second gap will be when they kiss at the ceremony. And if you miss that, you might as well refund the money. That's the money shot. Not to mention to compete with other wedding videographers, a 2-3 min recap won't doo. Brides want a 10-15 min highly edited version, and a long form 1-2 hour version. DO NOT SUCCUMB TO DO WEDDING VIDEOS. And if you do, never tell any one about it. You'll be undesirable to anyone except the local trash new station making $10 a hour. Source: Been there done that. Had to fight my way out of it. Finally did. Made a doc and sold it.

That wight balance.. just saying.

Wow, just my opinion. You're way low on your charging. A single shooter should at least be getting $100 per hour plus. You ever see a wedding couple cry over pictures? A video represents way so much and brings out the emotion of the couple. And a bonus you can give or sell the Jpg's images from your video too! Oh yes, don't forget the computer and software. The list never ends.

$37 an hour more than minimum wage? are you high bro? you contribute to day rates for visual creatives being destroyed. lots of good info here but to everyone else reading this, DO NOT WORK FOR SLAVE WAGES. it's a tremendous amount of work from pre-to post production. so get paid properly. or, if you don't know shit, work for expenses only with you client knowing that you are still learning. once you know what's up, charge people proper.

$150 bucks !!! You running a charity!? lol