Recording Family Celebrations: Professional Videographer or Phone?

Recording family celebrations began with people wanting to have a memory of spending time with their family and loved ones. In the diploma thesis, they wanted to research the recording of family celebrations. In the theoretical part, they first researched the development of recording itself in the early beginnings, how they started recording and how they helped themselves, what they used and who was the first to record moving images. Before conducting the survey itself, they also set four hypotheses, which they confirmed or refuted after analysing the survey. In the diploma thesis, they also produced their own video product.

Problem

Recording family celebrations began with people wanting to have a memory of spending time with their family and loved ones. In the diploma thesis, they wanted to research the recording of family celebrations.

Solution and Method

In the theoretical part, they first researched the development of recording itself in the early beginnings, how they started recording and how they helped themselves, what they used and who was the first to record moving images. They also researched the first cameras that were accessible to people and why these particular ones were useful. In the research part, they conducted a survey amongst people.

Given that mobile phone technology has advanced so much to date and almost everyone today already has their own smartphone with a powerful camera, they asked respondents whether they still decide to hire a videographer to record family celebrations. At the same time, they asked them what would attract them to decide to hire a videographer. They also researched whether people nowadays prefer to record family celebrations with a phone or hire a videographer.

Results

Before conducting the survey itself, they also set four hypotheses, which they confirmed or refuted after analysing the survey. In the diploma thesis, they also produced their own video product. They set up and carried out the project entirely by themselves.

Before embarking on the project, they conducted brainstorming and determined the project theme. Then they prepared a moodboard, selected the location, primary and secondary font, determined the project objectives, wrote the script and prepared the financial plan. They then also planned the implementation of the project itself.

Pre-production, production and post-production were divided into individual days according to the time they anticipated for the implementation of each part of the project. After completing the project, they made a plan for marketing and promotion. They also conducted an analysis of the implementation of the entire project and gave their opinion on possible corrections that should be taken into account in the future.

They also researched the overarching theme, which they included in the fourth hypothesis. At the end of the diploma thesis, they also provided final conclusions.