Event videography

Five hours rarely cover a whole Argentine night, so the timeline is written first. Arrivals, the entrance, the toasts, the vals or the opening dance and the first hour on the dance floor usually fit; a fiesta de 15 or a wedding-sized party keeps going well past that, and the hora loca often falls late. The moments that matter most are marked in advance, and the videographer arrives in time to film the room before the guests do. Extra hours are quoted in writing before booking.

Sound decides whether the speeches survive the edit. Where the DJ or the venue has a mixing desk, the videographer asks for a direct feed, a week before the event; where there is none, a recorder sits beside the person speaking. For a company event, speakers and sponsors are told in advance, and anyone shown recognisably in material that will be published — on a website, in an ad, on social media — signs a release, because article 53 of the Código Civil y Comercial requires consent to reproduce a person’s image or voice. The film is cut to licensed music, and raw footage and full-length speeches are not included unless they are agreed in writing.

Event videography is a different booking from wedding videography, which follows a whole wedding day over 8 hours and delivers a longer film. For a company that also needs photographs of the same night, corporate event photography can be booked alongside, with both teams working to one timeline. And if the event is outdoors in daylight — a polo afternoon, a harvest lunch among the vines — a drone photo and video session can add the setting from above, flown by an insured pilot.