Who Are We
TapeMe consists of 2 people, Stuart & Sarah. Stuart does the video camera work and editing while Sarah is the photographer and photo editor. Please check out our sister company for details of our wedding photography services in the Wirral, Liverpool, Cheshire and Manchester.
How We Work
You have probably been to weddings before where the bride and groom spend half the day being ordered around by photographers and videographers. The resulting footage is often more like an advert for the videographer/photographer than a representation of the event. This is not how we think it should be.
For wedding videos, in the main, our style is to let you get on with your big day and enjoy yourselves, and we will film this happening without getting in the way. This makes for a more modern, and less fake feel to the final DVD, making it much more interesting to watch in the future. Of course, if there are any particular scenes that you want, we will do that as well.
Equipment
Your film will be recorded using modern digital camcorders in the DV format. We usually use 2 camcorders, one tripod mounted, the other hand held. Both cameras are Canon XM2s which gives outstanding low light performance (very important for the first dance, and in poorly lit venues). We also use a 3rd smaller camera for the Diary Room option and as a spare incase of a problem with the main cameras. All our cameras are 3CCD models which provide a much superior picture quality to single CCD models (most consumer camcorders are single CCD).
In addition to the cameras we also use a wireless microphone for recording the vows and the speeches. If necessary we have up to 1600w of additional lighting available to ensure a good quality picture even in very dark environments (to avoid intrusion we only use the lighting in extreme cases).
We edit the footage on a computer, giving much greater freedom than old fashioned linear editing. The editing process is carried out on an Apple Mac Pro using Final Cut (similar to the editing software used by the BBC and many well known film producers).