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The Wedding Video Handbook: How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business (DV Expert Series)
- ISBN13: 9781578202812
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
For readers who want to become part of the thriving wedding video industry, Wedding Video Handbook explains everything a wedding videographer needs to know. Each chapter explores a different part of either the business or the production ends, and covers topics including secrets for getting clients, selecting the proper equipment, and tips on capturing special wedding moments despite difficult filming conditions. The book includes handy primers on marketing and advertising, handling phone calls and appointments, pre-production preparations, what to shoot on the wedding day, interacting with other vendors, editing and packaging the DVD or video, and generating referrals. Fully up-to-date with information on the newest tools and equipment used in this rapidly-evolving market as well as the cutting-edge trends in wedding video products, Wedding Video Handbook is packed with practical advice from a pro who has spent years in the field.
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Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
- ISBN13: 9780780652491
- Condition: NEW
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In this hilarious box office hit, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have perfected the art of wedding crashing but when one of them actually falls in love their sacred rule, “never leave a fellow crasher behind,” may be broken!DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
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With Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of brazen wedding crashers, this buddy/romantic comedy milks a few big laughs from its foolproof premise. Under the direction of David Dobkin (who previously worked with Wilson on Shanghai Knights), the movie ranges from bawdy romp to mushy romance, and that tonal identity crisis curtails the overall hilarity. But when the well-teamed costars are firing on all pistons with fast-paced dialogue and manic situations, belly laughs are delivered at a steady clip. Things get complicated when the guys infiltrate the family of the Treasury Secretary (Christopher Walken), resulting in a romantic pair-off between Vaughn and the congressman’s o
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Review by P. Ramsey for The Wedding Video Handbook: How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business (DV Expert Series)
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As a videographer new to the wedding business, I’m constantly in search of more information to guide me in my work. I own the Video University DVD on professional wedding videography and read the forum there regularly. I also have several other books on the topic from various years past. In purchasing this book I was hoping for an all inclusive look at the wedding video business from someone who’s established in the business. I believe this book does a great job of covering the bases and surpasses any other single book I’ve read.
There are so many facets to this business that it would be a stretch to expect any one source to provide you with all the answers. While this book does a great job of pointing out most of the factors you will need to be aware of, I found myself with some questions regarding certain points. I don’t feel as though it’s fair to fault the author for this. The book is awesome. But I was prompted to further my investigation using other sources. The thing to keep in mind is that I didn’t even think about those topics before reading the book. Could it have gone deeper? Of course it could. But even though I had some questions, I was made aware of issues I hadn’t even thought of.
The music topic is a question of legality. The author states that he is not a lawyer and that it would be inappropriate for him to provide a definitive answer. He points out that there is a possibility of legal ramification for using copyrighted music. Duh. He also discusses royalty free music. In the end, he states that the choice is up to you whether you want to risk a record company lawsuit. It’s true that there’s no concrete answer given. This is a very controversial topic and I respect the author for laying the facts on the table and leaving the decision up to me. The fact is, I’m responsible for my choices.
All in all I thought this was a great book. The price is fair and you will get a large amount of insight into many facets of the business. Will you need to dig deeper? I believe you will. But The Wedding Video Handbook will definitely get you pointed in the right direction quickly. Thumbs up.
Review by John Wilson for The Wedding Video Handbook: How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business (DV Expert Series)
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I believe everything you might want to know about starting and succeeding in a wedding video business is contained in this book. Kirk provides a LOT of valuable insider insights which can be very valuable especially to people who have never been business owners. I had to wrestle with giving this book four stars or five stars only because some of the material being dated. But of course being dated is to be expected when any book addresses video and computer equipment four years ago. The book is copyrighted 2005. Keeping in mind that video and computer equipment is dated, I must still recommend this book to people just starting a wedding video business mainly because of Kirk’s providing good working knowledge of the BUSINESS of wedding videography.
I’m a professional wedding photographer. I’ve also been shooting wedding video for about four years. As far as a video editing station: get the fastest processor, all the ram your operating system will use, a couple terabytes in external hard drives for storage, a video card with HDMI and you pretty much have what you need. I think a decent video editing computer station will cost around $1,000 if you shop smart and build yourself. Yes, I’m talking about a PC. I also prefer HP workstations (see HP xw8600 Workstation Desktop PC ( 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5450, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, Genuine Windows Vista Business). If you want a video editing station you can economically upgrade yourself as time goes by, go with a PC. To get the most out of your PC investment, just be prepared to learn a few basics about computers in general. This will keep your PC system running smoothly at least 99% of the time and is a more cost-effective solution than a Mac. If you don’t have time to learn about computers and if you’re not interested in building and/or updating your computer system now and then, I then recommend a Mac. Currently, I’m using a Lacie external blu-ray burner. I prefer using external devices as much as possible since this makes upgrades easier and faster.
For starting in the wedding video biz as of this writing, I would recommend the purchase of two or even three JVC Everio GZ-HD40 120GB High Definition Camcorders JVC Everio GZ-HD40 120 GB AVCHD High Definition Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom. They pack a lot of punch for the dollar. You wouldn’t have a substantial investment in video gear as you would with pro or prosumer cameras. You can get started in the biz with less pain and offer your services at more competitive prices while providing excellent quality work on blu-ray discs.
Review by Adam Markesbery for The Wedding Video Handbook: How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business (DV Expert Series)
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This is a very informative book. Well written by a professional of the industry. Has all the information you need from start to finish.
Review by Sigurdur Ingi Asgeirsson for The Wedding Video Handbook: How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business (DV Expert Series)
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This book was a joy to read. It is well conceived and written in a clear language. The writer shares many valuable facts about making wedding videos, gathered from his extensive experience and warns against common pitfalls. I particularily gained a lot from his ideas about how to market and shoot wedding videos.
Review by Lubomyr P. Kulynych for The Wedding Video Handbook: How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business (DV Expert Series)
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For Wedding Videographers out there (novices and experienced) this is a MUST HAVE book (with a DVD included).
I don’t know anywhere where you can get so much valuable information on Wedding Videography all in one book for such a low price. The information in the book and DVD is worth Thousands!!!! I myself am a Videographer used a quite a few ideas recently from this book that helped me land a job a few days ago. I recommend this book Highly to all Wedding and Event Videographers all over the world. As for the Author Kirk Barber-he deserves PRAISE for a JOB VERY WELL DONE!!!!
Review by Boggman! for Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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John (Owen Wilson) & Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are best buds. They’ve known each other for 17 years, work together, and in there spare time crash wedding parties; where they drink like sailors, mingle with unsuspecting relatives, and hit on single and willing brides maids every chance they get. They have a whole science to their crashing ( rules and all), and have become quite adept at the sport.
That all changes when they attend a wedding held by Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken), whose daughter is getting hitched. During the lavish formal affair, Jeremy makes headway with Cleary’s physcopath daughter Gloria ( a hilarious Isla Fisher), while John slowly maneuvers his way into the life of the Secretary’s other daughter Claire (Rachel McAdams), who just happens to have a steady bo’ of her own.
Eventually, after all the formalities– the two are privately invited back to the Secretary’s estate, where they play touch football with the family, have formal dinners, sail out on the boat, & get hit on by the Secretary’s sex starved wife (Jane Seymour) & his homosexual son Todd (Keir O’Donnell).
Its all very funny and silly- but the great chemistry by Wilson and Vaughn helps the film move at a steady pace. The supporting roles of McAdams and Fishler are nicely fleshed out as well. While no means a great movie, “The Wedding Crashers” is quite funny at times, and overall enjoyable.
Some people have called this a raunchy, gross-out comedy; although I noticed nothing of the sort. Besides the dialogue and a few breast shots, theres really nothing raunchy or gross-out about “Wedding Crashers” at all. It certainly wouldnt fall into the category of “Something About Mary” or the “American Pie” movies.
Vaughn and Wilson definitley shine throughout and appear to be having the time of their lives here….
Recommended.
Review by Keilli L. Brathwaite for Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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this movie is one of the few movies that men and women will enjoy. i love this and this movie is a must own
Review by N8 for Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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There were other funny movies this year and this summer. Both “Batman Begins” and “Serenity” were extremely funny and well written in their own witty manners. “Wedding Crashers,” however, was written to be a comedy, and I have to say that it takes funny to an entirely new level. Both Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have been hilarious before, but the roles they nab in this flick seem to say they were born to star in this movie.
“Wedding Crashers” is that rare movie that combines the comedic excellence of the cast with a very strong, intelligent, hilarious script, and directing that executes the necessary direction flawlessly. Too often lately, I feel as though movie studios have shyed away from “R” rated comedies for many reasons. The “R” rating of course threatens who will actually see a movie, so I understand why studios often create “R” rated movies with caution. What I do not understand, however, is why, until “Wedding Crashers,” intelligent, witty, adult-oriented “R” rated comedies seemed to have fallen completely off the radar. For the past 5 years or so, any comedy with an “R” rating (or often a PG-13 rating for that matter) had the rating because of disgusting, gross-out gags that forced laughs because of awkwardness and shock value. “Wedding Crashers” was a sigh of relief because it forced nothing. There were no unnecessary bodily function gags, there were no horribly moronically stupid characters. The movie worked because for the most part, everything seems believable. The characters come off as very real people in an improbable, but still possible situation, and interwined with a “cooky” love story, the comedy works really really well.
I cannot say enough about this film. I was laughing so hard the first 3 times I saw it that tears were streaming down my face. Time #4 I had to restrain myself so I could actually hear the punchlines to the jokes so I couldn’t tear-up too much. This movie is great. The characters are great. They are funny, they are sweet, but somehow, they are real. And that is why this movie was so successful. We all have either been, or could see ourselves being Owen and Vince, and they were great. So were Isla and Rachel and Christopher and everyone really. This movie is awesome!
Review by Jason W. Kaiser for Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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This movie was about 30-45 minutes too long. It’s like I saw two different movies shoved together so they could succeed in getting a two hour comedy movie released. I am a firm believer in the fact that I don’t mind if a comedy is short in the 70-85 minute range as long as it’s funny, and this one was that movie, but it just kept going and going. So, let’s talk about the first half of the movie, or the 4-star part….Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are professional wedding crashers, and they are extremely talented at it, they are sure to get every slightest detail down so no mistake can be made, and for a while everything is going fine, they are eating, drinking and freakin’ everything in sight. All the while making us laugh….alot. The lies and the facial expressions these two come up with are just plain priceless. The chemistry between Vaughn and Wilson is perfect, as expected, what is this the 4th or 5th movie they’ve been in together?
Eventually, Wilson falls in love, breaking 1 of the some thousand wedding crashing rules, and to top it off, the woman Wilson fell in love with (the lovely Rachel McAdams) is the daughter of Christopher Walken, who just happens to be running for office. To add more crazyness to the plot, Vaughn’s character nails another one of the daughters, who in turn falls in love with him. Got all that? Good, moving on….The dialogue between Wilson and Vaughn is very funny, most of the jokes work, and while a bit raunchy here and there, it fits well. Now here’s where things start to fall apart, both with the movie and our heroe’s.
The second part of the movie, or the 2-star part, goes all out on Hollywood cliches’ We get the family bickering, the big ‘fight’ between Wilson and Vaughn, the speech during the wedding , it just seemed forced and that they just ran out of good jokes, so they recycled some old, lamer ones. I saw the ending coming a mile away and the edge and character the movie had is all but gone now.
So, I gave 4-stars and 2-stars, another bit of the 4-star part I rather enjoyed are the minor roles played by Jane Seymour, she plays Christopher Walken’s drunk wife with new breasts, and Will Ferrell (surprised? nah, me either, I think there is an agreement with these 3 men along with Ben Stiller to appear in everyone of each other’s movies. just a thought) as Chaz, the legendary wedding crasher Vaughn and Wilson are always quoting. He plays a man in his late 30’s, still leaving with his mother, now crashing funerals cuz’ it’s so easy to get laid by a depressed chick, or so Ferrell says.
There are many subplots, most I didn’t care for, but be sure and check out Vaughn’s confession to a preist at the breakfeast table……..priceless!!! and Jane Seymour’s half-ass attempt at seducing Owen Wilson with her new ta-ta’s, very funny!!
acting……4 stars, You know you can’t go wrong with these two
directing….3 stars, 30-54 minutes too long
special effects…N/A, comedy here, not thrills and chills
comedy rating …..4 stars first 70 minutes, 2 stars after that
quality……..3.5 stars, Decent picture quality, little grain, but great soundtrack
Review by Wheelchair Assassin for Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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Going into Wedding Crashers, I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece, but nor was I expecting the abomination that ended up unfolding on the big screen. I figured I’d at least get a nice, lowbrow, politically incorrect goofball comedy with a few good laughs in the mold of Old School and Anchorman, but instead Wedding Crashers turned out to be the kind of cynical, implausible, and overlong dead whale of a movie that’s causing ever-greater dissatisfaction with Hollywood. Padded out to a laughable running time of 119 minutes, this movie can’t even be saved by the deliriously cute Rachel McAdams, which is saying something. Obviously Wedding Crashers was designed to be a classic buddy comedy, but it only deserves that label if you think Black Sheep does as well.
The movie starts out promisingly enough, as we see a pair of thirty-something divorce mediators (I think it says something that I don’t even remember their names at this point) devoting their midyear weekends to going uninvited to weddings of various religions and ethnicities to pick up chicks, culminating in a few good lines and some nice gratuitious nudity. It’s all downhill from there, though, as a clever concept is ruined by humor that would cease to exist if it were any broader or more watered down. There are a few good ideas to be found in the first half of the movie, notably with some of the ancillary characters: the crazed clingy girl, the evil alpha-male boyfriend, and the social-misfit brother all manage to provoke a few guffaws. Ultimately, though, Wedding Crashers turns out to be some decent ideas in search of a movie. Great comedies-Rushmore, Election, The Big Lebwoski, Swingers-have memorable main characters, interesting plots, and intelligent dialogue. Weighed down by sitcom-level writing and a mailed-in lead performance by the talented Owen Wilson (Vince Vaughn isn’t much better), Wedding Crashers boasts none of these things.
Even worse, about halfway through, after a cryptic conversation between Vaughn and the underused Christopher Walken and an agonizing beach pattycake scene, the movie sells out and ventures into sappy relationship territory, turning into the most ghastly of all creations: a romantic comedy without the comedy. Even the inevitable Will Ferrell cameo near the end isn’t enough to redeem Wedding Crashers from the horrors witnessed in its final hour. This movie was clearly trying to be all things to all people, making it sort of the cinematic equivalent of a John Mayer album: soulless, corporate, and irritatingly ingratiating. Had the makers of the film decided to go lowbrow and stay there they might have had something, but in the end all we’re left with is yet another piece of big-studio tripe to rival anything Julia Roberts has starred in.