In the mid-eighties retired businessmen were the first to buy these rather large and very expensive cameras and started recording wedding videos.

The name videographer was soon adopted and the professional videographer was born!

Wedding videography can trace its roots back to before the advent of the modern video camera through 8mm and 16mm films. Over the decades while film was the only way to capture moving pictures a few enterprising individuals would take the family 8mm camera and film the weddings of friends and family. These film cameras had a major limitation in the form of 4 minute load times. After exposing 4 minutes of film the operator would have to load a new film cartridge. The high cost of processing and the fact the majority of them could not record sound to the film, further limited the industry. But there were a few individuals who had turned the documentation of weddings into a business.

1980 saw the introduction of the first consumer camcorders by Sony, with other manufacturers soon following suit. With the introduction of these first camcorders wedding video documentation evolved from something for the rich or celebrity into something for the masses. Early adopters were primarily hobbyists who, at first started recording the weddings of friends and family then went on to do jobs for pay.

The early days of professional wedding videography were primitive, with the equipment generally reproducing low image quality. Cameras required bright lights, had fuzzy pictures, poor colour saturation and single-channel, poor quality audio. The cameras were bulky with a separate unit that connected to the video recorder via a cable, severely limiting the videographer's movement. In post-production many wedding videos weren't edited. Generation loss was also a limiting factor because of the nature of analog video tape.

From its earliest days and through the 1980s Wedding Videography developed a negative reputation of being an interference with the festivities it was meant to be documenting. The bright lights required to produce a quality image were damaging to the atmosphere many brides and grooms wanted to create. As the market expanded, it was flooded by many individuals who had little experience and technical knowledge, which left the consumer with fallen expectations. Consumer technology available to the wedding videographer could not equal broadcast quality of the time.

However, the wedding video was still a priority on many Brides wedding list.

The wedding video was truly born, having a professional videographer record your wedding day was a must have.

These early, professional videographers, unfortunately; would produce a wedding video with all the effects of a (badly edited) TV program due to many of these wedding videographers being retired hobbyists, the finished wedding video was on many occasions quite horrific with every effect in the editor’s bag being utilised!

Wedding video clubs became the newest craze; every chap who had expendable money began buying the cameras and started making wedding videos!

Soon the market was flooded by these wedding videographers producing the psychedelic wedding video; extremely tacky and on many occasions embarrassing!

This was the downward slide for the wedding video as it was now viewed as a last minute decision if budgets allowed!

The Wedding Video today.

Unfortunately there are still hundreds of wedding videographers in the market; who consider themselves to be professional wedding film producers but have never moved forward with time except maybe with their equipment!

The wedding video can be the most stunning record of the wedding day; every detail can be recorded in beautiful quality, the sounds the laughter, the emotion of the speeches, something photography will never capture to the same degree.

Your choice of music can be added in order to enhance the wedding video, menus enabling scene selection, titles emphasising location etc.

thefxworks is the UK's premiere wedding video company. Once you have chosen us to create your Wedding Video you can relax and look forward to a guarantee of perfection. All filming is performed completely unobtrusively with the very latest hybrid cameras film in HD.

The wedding video is now becoming a 'must have' at modern weddings. Couples are adding the wedding videographer as a top priority on their list of suppliers.

Check out thefxworks gallery and then email us with your details to receive our presentation DVD; you won’t be disappointed. 

Have your wedding video produced in the Bluray format and you will be amazed at the incredible quality, the vibrant colours and clarity are a sight to behold. The wedding video is absolutely one of the best decisions you will make with regard to your wedding day; that’s a promise. The magic of the day will only ever be a few seconds away for the rest of your life. 

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