Colorado Digital Wedding Guide

January 28, 2010

Denver Wedding Films is very excited to be a part of a new source of information for brides in Colorado.

How would you like to have an online directory that provides short video tours of wedding venues and vendors around the Colorado area?

Enter Colorado’s Digital Wedding Guide. In a few months, this new guide will roll out. It will feature video tours of local venues and interviews with vendors. You’ll be able to see what each wedding venue looks like from the comfort of your home.

A few months ago we decided that we wanted to make a guide that is free for Colorado vendors and venues. We didn’t want to create just another guide though: there are plenty of those already! We finally settled on our expertise and decided to include short videos for every vendor.

Creating the guide will be an ongoing project. Every month we’ll add new venue videos. All of the videos will be searchable by certain keywords as well as listed in different categories such as: chapel, inside venue and the city in which it is located. Next to each video there will be a information that includes a written description of each venue and contact information .

Look for Colorado’s Digital Wedding Guide to launch in a couple of months.

Complete information will be posted soon.

Denver Wedding Films: Not your parents’ wedding video

January 26, 2010

A mere 4 months ago, Denver Wedding Films was just a glimmer in my eye. I had decided that I no longer wanted to create the typical wedding video that was 60-90 minutes long and generally uninspipring.

To be honest, we had been doing wedding videography for a couple of years and were bored creating the typical wedding video that you see so often. I had always heard about short-form, cinematic wedding films, but never fully understood their power and creativity so I just blew them off for our typical documentary-style, 90-120 minute wedding video. I always thought that the more of the wedding you put in the final video, the better.

In September, I traveled to Orlando for the Wedding and Event Videographer Association’s annual expo. It was 3 days of seminars and  trade shows. I attended several seminars on short-form and cinematic wedding films and was absolutely blown away! The amount of creativity and just great filmmaking that went into these videos were amazing.

A cinematic wedding film is focused on 3 main things:

• Solid Shot Composition
• Creative Editing
• An Entertaining Presentation.

Solid Shot Composition

So many wedding videos today are too busy with flashy shots and fancy equipment. Yes, we include some of that in our wedding films, but the most important thing is having solid, professional shots even if your only equipment is a tripod.

Creative Editing

One of the most important differences in a wedding film is its creative editing. Most wedding videos are edited so they look exactly like the day that they were recorded. Our wedding films go above this and are edited to tell the specific story of our day. We don’t have a cookie cutter style of editing. We spend a great deal of time editing your film so that every shot is perfect and the final video you receive makes you feel like you’re the star of your own movie!

Entertaining Presentation

The third key piece to our wedding films is an entertaining presentation. Our editing style is fast paced and fun. It allows us to condense what most videographers would deliver in 2 hours, down to a 20 minute, highly entertaining video that is exciting to watch.

How often would you actually watch a 2 hour video of your wedding? Probably once every 5-10 years. We consistently hear that even relatives of the couple are watching their film every month or so.

So, in October, Trivision Pictures LLC started their new brand: Denver Wedding Films to focus on these 3 principles. We worry more about getting the best looking shots and not the flashiest. We spend more time editing to make sure your story is told in the best way possible and looks and sounds better than you remember.

We promise to provide you a wedding film that is entertaining and fun; something that you’ll actually want to watch over and over. It is these differences that make us the best choice when it comes to capturing your memories. We strive to be the top wedding filmmakers in Colorado, but that means giving each of our couples the best product possible and the individual service that they deserve.

Even if you are on the fence about having a wedding videographer, I strongly suggest that you take sometime to consider our wedding films. Compare our wedding film demos to other wedding videos around town and you’ll see the difference. If you you’d like to setup an appointment to see a complete wedding film, call 303.726.3510 or use the Contact Us page and I’d be happy to show you exactly what a finished wedding film can look like.

Weekend of Bridal Shows Wrap-up

January 18, 2010

What a great weekend! Two great chances to meet some of the newest engaged brides in Denver. We were able to meet some enthusiastic new brides looking to have their memories captured with a wedding film. It was great getting some positive feedback from both brides and vendors about the wedding highlight video that we showed. It is also getting easier to educate soon-to-be brides that we aren’t just videographers, we’re wedding filmmakers. Here are some of the highlights from each day:

Saturday: Three Trees Chapel Open House

Sherri at the Three Trees Chapel, setup a spectacular open house. Many happy couples stopped by to see one of the best views from a chapel in the Denver area. The couples that stopped by our table were very excited about the video we were playing. They just loved the cinematic feel that we have in our wedding films.

As always, florist Lisa Weddel provided gorgeous arrangements of flowers to decorate the tables through the reception area. Our friends at Biscuits and Berries served a variety of mouth watering treats and beverages; they bring a different menu and display to every show! Also setting up a table was Jay Yates of Jay Yates Photography.

Sunday: Colorado Bridal Show at the Hyatt DTC

The Colorado Bridal Show was a great show. The aisles were full of curious new soon-to-be brides and their fiances, mothers and bridesmaids. As the only dedicated vendor in the Wedding Videography category at the event, we were able to talk to nearly all of the brides. Most of them had never seen a wedding film before and were amazed at the kind of work we do with our videos. Others, who had considered not having a wedding videographer because they didn’t like the typical wedding video, were shocked to see what we were able to provide with our wedding films.

I would like to give a special thanks to Darren Skanson of Colorado Wedding Music for providing us with some new music to use in our videos and Ron Severns at Sweetness & Co for providing us with an audio cable that we forgot bring to the show.

I also had the privilege of meeting Kim and Will of Element One Photography and I look forward to working with them in the future.

Visit Denver Wedding Films™ at the Colorado Bridal Show Tomorrow

January 17, 2010

At the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center

Denver Wedding Films™ will have a booth setup at the Colorado Bridal Show tomorrow, January 17th, 2010 from 12pm until 4pm. This is your chance to stop by and meet the filmmakers and view more video samples of their work on a high definition tv. Come find out why we are quickly becoming one of the top wedding videographers in Colorado.

If you mention this blog post when you stop by the show, we’ll offer you a special discount on our wedding film packages!

The show will also be your best chance to meet other excellent Denver wedding vendors. Brides from all over the Denver area will be descending on the Hyatt Regency DTC to check out the top vendors in the area. Complete information is available at bridalshowcolorado.com.

Your chance to win a Blu-ray player !

January 13, 2010

Book Denver Wedding Films™ as your videographer by March 30th and be entered to win a Blu-ray player

Now is an even better time to choose Denver Wedding Films™ as your wedding videographer. If you book a wedding film package with us by March 30, 2010 you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a new Blu-ray Player! See your wedding film in true 1080p High Definition video; the way it was meant to be seen. Blu-ray offers the highest clarity possible and more scratch resistant discs than DVDs. Blu-ray is the best way to capture the memories of your wedding forever.

This Insignia Blu-ray player comes with a wireless internet connection to connect to your home network and is Netflix® enabled. If you have a Netflix® unlimited DVD plan, you can connect and stream videos right to your Blu-ray player. Standard definition DVDs will be upconverted to look even better than they do on a regular DVD player.

Now is the perfect time to think about getting a wedding film from Denver Wedding Films™. Act now, the winner will be announced the first weekend in April.

For more information on having Denver Wedding Films™ at your wedding, please call 303.726.3510.

Denver Wedding Films™: Where Memories Do Last Forever

Come visit Denver Wedding Films next Saturday

January 7, 2010

For the January Open House

The Three Trees Chapel is hosting an Open House on January 16, 2010. Doors open at 10am. Come by and visit our table and see why we are the top wedding filmmakers in Denver. We’ll be showing sample videos in high definition and offering some specials for anyone visiting us at the open house.

If you haven’t selected a wedding venue yet, I highly recommend the Three Trees Chapel. It features a gorgeous setting, overlooking the Rocky Mountains, making for tremendous wedding pictures and video moments. Inside, the chapel and reception venue are quaint but modern. Sherri, the owner does a tremendous job with her wedding facility and is a great person to work with.

Along with Denver Wedding Films, many other great vendors will be at the January Open House. All of them will be offering demos or samples of their product or service and will be offering special discounts to brides who visit them. Even if you have your venue selected, come out and visit these great vendors and take advantage of the great deals!

Three Trees Chapel is located at:

13416 W Arbor Place

Littleton, CO  80127

Complete information can be found on the Three Trees Chapel website.

We look forward to seeing you on January 16th!

Happy New Year from Denver Wedding Films!

January 1, 2010

New for 2010 at Denver Wedding Films

2010 is now upon us and it looks to be a fabulous year! Wedding planning season is upon us and Denver Wedding Films wants to help you with your wedding planning. We’ll be bringing 2 new segments to help provide you with the information you need to plan your wedding.

Our first new segment will feature local Denver wedding vendors. Every month we’ll dive into one of our featured vendors or venues to give you a little bit more information about them. We’ll also tell you why we enjoy working with them and how they work in sync with us to help capture the best video of your memories.

Our second new segment will help to educate couple on wedding films, videos and videographers. We’ll give you questions that you need to ask videographers. We’ll explain the difference between wedding films and videos. We’ll equip you with the knowledge that you need to make an informed choice whether you are looking for a videographer in Denver or New York.

New Payment Options

So everyone is still feeling the effects of the recession, but you really want an exciting, beautiful wedding film. Denver Wedding Films would like to help by offering our new Layaway and Wedding Film Registry programs. Details can be seen on our Payment Options page.