Question 1

How Do I Book?

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To book with us simply give us an email through our contact page (here) a(https://www.brightproductionhouse.co.uk/contact-weddings)nd provide as much detail about your day as possible. We'll be in touch to have a little consultation with you to make sure we are the perfect fit for each other and we get an idea of exactly what you are looking for. 
 
Then we will email you our booking form and deposit invoice. Once those are signed and paid you'll be officially booked in and your date exclusively reserved for you.

Question 2

Do I Have To Pay All At Once?

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For all our wedding packages, nope! To give you as much ease and flexibility as possible you can pay any remaining balance anytime up to a week before your booked date. 
 
Our payment method is as follows:
 
1. £200 booking deposit.
2. Remaining balance to be paid up-to a week before the wedding date.
 
For our couple video and engagement video packages full payment is required at the time of booking.

Question 3

How Intrusive Is Your Wedding Videography?

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It is entirely up to you. During our consultation we will discuss our filming styles and decide the right level of involvement for us and the right style of video for you.

Question 4

Do We Get To Meet Before The Day?

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Before you book with us we will usually organise a consultation so we can tallk about your needs, depending on your location we can do this in person, over the phone or through a video call. 
 
If we can meet in person before the day we will try to make this happen. It's important to know you're trusting the right people with your video and we love to know you a bit better.
 
Also as we offer our pre-wedding couple video you have an extra opportunity to meet us before the day and get to know how we work, get comfotable in front of the cameras and get to know us a bit more.

Question 5

Will You Visit Our Venue Before The Day?

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If we haven't had the pleasure of working at your venue before and depending on it's location and our own schedule we can occasionally make a visit to your venue before your wedding day, and we will try to. But even if we can't rest assured we are no strangers to filming in new locations without planning, and we get the best footage wherever we are.

Question 6

What Area's Do You Cover?

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We are based between Hampshire and Surrey, but cover weddings across all of mainland UK and aboard. 
Travel fees occur for weddings located outside Hampshire and Surrey but we try to limit it as much as possible and all fees will be transparent and agreed before booking.

Question 7

Do You Charge For Travel?

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We will only require accommodation if your wedding is located outside Hampshire or Surrey. If this is the case we only require a place to stay the night before and of your wedding, ideally within 30 miles of your venue.
 This allows us to be closer to your wedding location and to ensure we can get home safely the next day. 
 
We don't need anything fancy and will always find the most affordable accommodation nearby, usually this falls between £100-£300 mark and will confirm with you before booking.

Question 8

Can I Choose My Wedding Video Music?

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Because of copyrighting laws we are unable to use any music of your choice without considerable licensing fees. Additionally you will not be able to share your video online without a copyright strike or the video being muted. 
 
We pay for library of licensed music from independent artists, so we have purchased the rights to use in our videos, which means no copyright infringement against us or yourselves. We invite you to suggest music styles and tracks and will never use any music in our videos we feel is unsuited to your video. We spend a long time choosing music we think is perfect for your day.

Question 9

Do You Provide Raw Footage?

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We only supply whats included in our packages. We spend many hours and days in the edit suite perfectly cutting footage so that everything flows beautifully into something wonderful. We strongly believe seeing the uncut footage could ruin the magic of your wedding film.

Question 10

Do I Need To Obtain Permission From My Venue To Have My Wedding Filmed?

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We ask that you do check your venue allows videography, especially if a religious setting. While videography is becoming bigger, in some places it is still disallowed or has limits applied to it. 
If you're not sure what to ask put us in contact with your venue hosts and we can arrange the details.

Question 11

What Is Your Style Of Videography?

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We specialise in cinematic videography. This means capturing your day in glamourous smooth shots that capture the aesthetic's of your day in beautiful 4K. 
 
How we shoot and edit your video can be one of two primary ways:
 
- The Cinematic Documentary Style 
 
- The Avant-Garde Cinematic Style
 
Documentary style in a quick speech is capturing your day with beautifully smooth, cinematic shots in a video that chronologically follows your day. This style is perfect for couples who prefer a more natural style and don't want to spend hours in front of the camera.
 
"Avant-Garde" style in a quick speech is more about utilising creative cinematography, and some beautiful couple and staged shots that result in bespoke, personal videos that focuses primarily on the two of you, while still including the best bits from your wedding day.

Question 12

How Do You Work On The Day?

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We're very friendly people and love to have a chat and make filming your wedding day as fun for you as possible. We're not there to be another stress on your day. 
 
Every wedding and every couples ideas and personalities are different. We won't demand your time for staged shots if you don't want to. We can float around in the background or we can be in the centre of the actions with yourselves and your guests.
 
Occasionally depending on what we've agreed upon for your video there will be times we'll come to you for bits and bobs that need doing (eg. if you'd like your vows recording, we'll make a time for that on you day). But generally we won't need much from you on the day. 
Your wedding day is your day and we want you to make sure you have a beautiful video AND a beautiful day.

Question 13

How Many Hours Do You Cover?

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Every wedding is different so to make sure we're not messing you about with booked  hours, we'll film your whole day from start to when we leave for every single full wedding package we offer.
 
We'll arrive during pre-ceremony prep and leave once we have enough footage in the evening. 
 
For our half-day packages, we cover the written times as on the packages page.

Question 14

Do You Have Public Liability Insurance?

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Yes we are fully insured and will happily provide details if needed on request.

Question 15

What's The Quality Of Your Video's Like?

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In short - SUPER!

We come from a narrative filmmaking background and use industry-standard cinema camera's to film your wedding. This means you are getting your hands on some experienced cinematographers and some fabulous quality video. Also all our videos are available in 4K.

Question 16

Why Do You Only Make Shorter Videos?

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It is important when deciding on your videographer what you actually want to get out of your wedding video.

It could be you'd like a full play-by-play of the day in a 90-minute feature film, which if that is the case, is totally understandable because your day is all about you and how you'd like to preserve the memories.

Or it might be you'd like to capture the memories and emotion in a shorter, more crafted way. This is where we thrive and with our style and quality of cinematic video, we believe less is more. The goal of our videos is to beautifully represent your day in a powerful and meaningful way, with each shot carefully selected and ordered to tell the unique story of your wedding day.

The longest video we produce is 20-minutes which will also feature part of your ceremony and speeches and we feel is the longest length we can make that will beautifully tell the story of your wedding day in our cinematic style.

Question 17

Why Should I Have My Wedding Filmed Professionally?

Accepted Answer

We don't have to tell you that your wedding day is a once-in-a-lifetime event. It is a special day where you say your vows and celebrate with your closest friends and family. And it is often the one thing that couples often regret not having. 
You might think I've already got a photographer booked and my uncle has a good video camera...so why should I need to pay for professional videography?

Wedding videography, especially from a professional, is an absolute must. Photographers are brilliant at capturing moments to last, but we through video capture so many moments that you can actually relive with them played back and will become a treasured memory.
No one else can capture the magic and emotion of your wedding as well as a professional videographer can. From our kit, to our cinematography, to our skillsets and knowledge - we videographers are an essential part of your wedding-memory-making team.

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