Filmed first wedding.

It has been a chaotic month to say the least. Samuel's naming day, our wedding anniversary and on the 16th I filmed my first wedding.

Okay, from a production side of things what went wrong? Being a wedding there are bound to be mishaps and things going to, well S#@!...It wouldn't be a wedding without one...well they weren't wrong!

SD cards - ...oh boy! What a lesson to learn. In regards to filming in 1080p make sure your SD cards can contain all the information of full HD!. I have a 2x SanDisk Ultra and Extreme (class 10) but when I came to recording the speeches, I used a basic SD card (class 10) (others were full)
Needless to say, I had drop outs and recording crashes (talk about timing!)... lucky I had my sound recorder going to fall back on! The end edit had random cut aways to people of the wedding to make up for the lost footage.
Obviously this was a novice mistake and I one I have learnt from.
I have just bought myself a 32gig Extreme SD card, now I should have plenty of room for recording.

Cut away/extra shots -I had a quite a few shots to choose from, you can never have to many cut away shots etc, specially if you need to cover up bad footage.

Sound - I have a H4N sound recorder that I used for speeches and Vows. Unfortunately the wind blew my recorder over and it didn't pick up the audio of the vows (could here the celebrant but not the Bride or groom, maybe not close enough too)
I have a rode mic attached to my camera, but I wasn't close enough to the couple to pick up the words. I was very angry with myself when I discovered these errors. Another lesson learnt.

Tripod - I decided to go with a Mono-pod for this shoot, and I wish I didn't! There was a bit of wind on the day and holding a Camera with a heavy lens it comes up on the shot. The Mono-pod that I was after wasn't available under short notice, maybe once I have saved some I'll get the one I'm after. (has a stand at the bottom and a handle at the top.) Either way, you can't go wrong with a Tripod!

Viewfinder/Display - This is definitely going to be on my next to buy list. When shooting on sunny days one can not just rely on looking at the display. The glare makes it hard to see if your shots in focus and colour is correct.

Santa, all I want for Christmas this year is The Zacuto Z-Finder! pretty please! Oh and maybe a camera rig...like this one...isn't it sexy?

These are just a few things that came up on the day. Over all I am happy with the result, a few things that need to be worked on, can only go forward from here.

I must say a huge thank-you to Maria for the opportunity, kind words and encouragement. And a big thank-you to Mirtha and Rob for letting me, a stranger film there special day.

Hopefully they are happy with the end result.