| Editing Contest Check Your Reality! |
| Editing Contest Check Your Reality! |
| The Bride's Favorite! DVideography Contest - February, 2007 |
| In early 2007 I entered an editing contest held by Dvideography, another wedding videographer in Philadelphia. The contest's top winner received a $500.00 cash prize and the top three winners were invited to interview for an editing position at Dvideography. The objective of the contest was to edit a three-minute recap (An edited version of the entire day) from one wedding. The footage was shot by Dvideography. Although I didn't place in the top three, I later found out by listening to a podcast interview with the president of Dvideography and creator of the contest that MY ENTRY was favored over the 28 other contestants by the bride in the wedding footage! And during the interview, my entry is credited a few times for including elements that many of the other entries did not. However, they didn't completely analyze all the clips, and the actual details are below. Regardless, my entry must have made an impression on the inteviewers! |
Out of the 29 contestants, my recap, #4, was the top choice of the bride. - My entry was one out of only 4 to use the actual audio of the ring drop (#5, #15, #17, and my #4). - My entry was one out of only 3 to use the medium shot of the heads following the ring rolling across floor. #6, and #28 included those shots, but my #4, was the only one that used the bride and groom smiling and looking at each other after they follow the rings rolling. - It's interesting to note that none of the winners of the contest used any footage of the ring drop at all! - I believe the "grandfather" the host of the podcast is referring to is the man with the eye patch who actually appears in a few of the contestants' recaps. I can't really take any credit for that, or for being one out of only a couple who included him. |
Ultimately, the winners of the contest each had a very similar recap to one another. Unfortunately, the winning recaps were those that closest resembled Dvideography's style. Had I known that at the time I entered, I may not have entered at all. At least I can say that the bride (the client, the customer), favored my entry over the other contestants. And that's all that really matters. That's the best prize of all, isn't it! |
| R.C.'s entry was favored over the 28 other contestants by the bride in the wedding footage! |
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