Q: What is the difference between a “videographer” and a “cinematographer”?
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It, I have a cynical answer and then more of a straightforward answer. So I will answer this in two parts. Is there a difference? It’s tricky and then kind of not tricky to answer. I’m Jason Monroe. I own highway 61 films. We’ve been making wedding videos in Chicago for over ten years. So videographer and cinematographer, they both relate to capturing moving images, but they differ in the perspective a person brings to the process of filmmaking. So my cynical answer would be that a cinematographer is generally someone who works on larger projects, Hollywood productions, and often those types of people would look down upon wedding videographers, wedding cinematographers, because they think that’s something that just anybody can do. So I don’t call myself a cinematographer personally, but I don’t turn down that distinction either, if someone refers to me that way. People who don’t do wedding videos would generally just call us all videographers. But here’s the thing. I think the real answer is also no, there is no difference in the level of wedding videos. I think the term is interchangeable. I don’t have a preference. You can call yourself a cinematographer, a videographer think they are both the same, but all wedding video companies get this are cinematographers and videographers simultaneously. So I really don’t pay a whole lot of attention to those words.
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I have been asked this so many times... does the wedding industry inflate prices when they hear it's a wedding?
Here is my honest answer (as a former wedding photographer)... NO. Did I charge more for a wedding than a 50th birthday party or a family portrait session? Yes, absolutely. I charged A LOT more for a wedding.
Was I taking advantage of the emotional sell? Absolutely not.
The main reasons I charged more for a wedding were: the unseen amount of work involved in the 12+ months leading up to the wedding, the skill level needed on the day, the INTENSE pressure to create perfect "portfolio level work" no matter what the reality of the situation- but mostly it is to compensate for the time AFTER the wedding in post production.
Little known fact about wedding photography - the real job is sitting at a computer editing photos. Photographers spend many hours behind the computer carefully selecting and editing photos. They make adjustments, crop, and adjust colors to ensure each image it's best. Don't forget the time it takes for batching, renaming, importing, exporting and uploading the photos and preparing them for delivery.
Do you think this justifies why photographers charge more for weddings than for other types of shoots?
Couldn’t agree more! And on the videography side its an absolute ton of data + editing discipline.
Its a double sided coin- weddings are extremely high pressure but also high reward when we nail it.
Our products (photo video) in particular are the only thing that genuinely will last forever . Having fun and ALSO nailing the product is worth the price of entry and frankly more.