Wedding slideshows have become more and more popular, especially during speeches. This is a great way to reminice about your individual childhoods and how your relationship came to be. Follow these 5 steps to create a slide show your guests will never forget.
1. Know Your Audience
Knowing who your intended audience is an obvious, but sometimes an overlooked step in the process of developing your slide show. For instance, you want to make sure to include some photos of your guests in your slideshow. This is a great way to show them that they have been special in your life. It's always a great surprise to see your self on the big screen.
2. Shorter is Sometimes Better
We’ve found that video montages that are between 5 – 7 minutes in length are ideal for wedding receptions. This usually works out to about 3 songs and 75-100 pictures. While you can certainly display more photos during your slideshow, you want to be careful not to subject your guests to an extremely long slide show.
3. Choose Quality Photographs
While recent advances in digital photo restoration have allowed torn and poorly developed photographs to be brought back to life, there is only so much that the software can do. Pictures that look great printed (correct lighting, framing, developed properly) will also look great while scanned. Another thing to keep in mind is that landscape pictures are better suited for this than portrait pictures. You can definitely use a mix of both but you should try using more landscape photos.
4. Give some thought to music
Choose music that has meaning to you; music whose lyrics go well with the pictures. Also pay attention to how long the music is. If you’re only showing 30 pictures, your music should go accordingly.
5. Test! Test! Test!
It is very important that you test your slide show BEFORE it needs to be played. The last thing you want is for the big moment to arrive and when you hit "play" nothing comes up!
Follow these tips and your guests will be sure to enjoy your little trip down memory lane.
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