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L8R wrote on 3/21/2011, 7:06 PM
yeah, that is brutal.
People like that giving good videographers a bad name.
farss wrote on 3/21/2011, 8:10 PM
They paid peanuts and got a gorilla.

Bob.
Serena wrote on 3/21/2011, 8:49 PM
I've seen $500 wedding videos that were much better than that, and anyway it was entirely reasonable to expect even a gorilla to actually attend the wedding. Perhaps does better confined in a cage. Maybe he did a good job on the other wedding he'd wandered into. Perhaps he was shooting two at once. He doesn't seem to agree that there was any fault on his part!
farss wrote on 3/21/2011, 10:14 PM
My comment was meant to be sarcastic. I have had some recent dealings with the less savoury types from the cage fighting fraternity who've decided pointing a camera cannot be all that hard. The story touched a bit of a nerve.

Indeed I've seen some wedding videos shot for much less than $500 back in the VHS days. They were just edited in camera and the couple seemed quite happy with the outcome.
Personally my effort is never based on the money involved. It's arguable that even when I work for free the client didn't get good value for money but never do I excuse lack of effort by what was on the table.

Bob.
Serena wrote on 3/21/2011, 10:37 PM
Understood. I only do weddings for free, so I do very few indeed. Around this district $500 will get you something like 2 hours attendance plus all material shot (unedited) on a DVD. Double that to add edited highlights. $2K+ will get a thorough job. Hard work.