CORPORATE & WEDDINGS huh??

One of the 1st questions I get asked when people find out that I'm a professional videographer is what type of videos do you shoot. It is a loaded question with an answer that has changed over the years, based on my transparency & comfort level. Over the last 10 years or so, after I gained a level of COMPLETE confidence I tell people, I shoot various corporate videos (promotional, training, educational, incentive, commercial) and I shoot weddings.

A CEO/Presidents's DAUGHTER'S WEDDING

There are a lot of video production companies that won't admit to shooting weddings... Why you ask? Because the video industry tended to look down on the video professionals that would shoot weddings, as if they were inferior in talent and skills. Many video production companies still go to the extra length of hiding the fact that they shoot for two industries, by producing two different websites, one for CORPORATE VIDEOs and the other for WEDDING VIDEOs. Are they ashamed by one or the other? Do they want prospective clients not to know of their full capabilities?

In my 22 + years as a professional videographer, I have come to the belief that I am a better wedding videographer, because I shoot and produce corporate videos & conversely a better corporate videographer due to the fact I shoot wedding videos. IMHO it is the perfect cross-training. A couple of examples... Weddings are an event where you get ONE opportunity to get it right... There is no "Take Two"! Due to this training, when I'm in front of a Fortune 500 company CFO-CEO doing a interview piece, I get it right the 1st time. Time is money to the corporate world & I don't waste their time or money. An example going in the opposite direction... Corporate videos usually sell a product or educate... When you get to the heart of a wedding video, I'm truly selling the love in a relationship and educating the viewers to a love story that needs to be told.

BRIDE's UNCLE & SUPERBOWL w/CADILLAC

There are many instances where I have done weddings for corporate clients directly (Themselves) or indirectly (Friends & Family) because I didn't HIDE the fact I provide both services, and even more going the other way with initial wedding clients booking my services on a corporate level. The truth is I love being a part of both industries and can honestly say I wouldn't want to pick between the two if I had to choose.

Shooting at the Super Bowl for Cadillac because of meeting the contact at a wedding or covering a wedding in New York for the daughter of the President who's company I had been doing corporate work with! I'd love to see you make a decision. I get the best of both worlds :-)

jt