“Do you have a drone?”  It’s a question we’ve been hearing a lot of lately.  Drones are in the news and many videographers and photographers are touting expensive packages which include their use. Is this a good way to spend your wedding dollars?

Getting the Bird’s Eye View

Unlike many videography companies, LeniCam is a full-time video production service which produces videos for many types of occasions, events and purposes.  While weddings are the heart of our business, we find synergistic connections in all of our work.

As our founder, John Lenihan, trotted along the sidelines of sporting events recording footage, he wished for a way to get his videocamera up over the heads of the crowd.  Coaches, parents and relief players with their toes on the out-of-bounds line made his job very difficult.

Since John is an engineer, by training and mindset, he soon put these skills to work, figuring out a solution.  It is pretty easy to get a still camera over the heads of a crowd.  All you have to do is lift it up there with your arm.  You see a lot of photographers doing that.  A professional grade videocamera is a lot heavier, so John developed an extra-tall tripod to hold the camera in place.

The camera was up up in the air, but we couldn’t see what was being recorded.  We needed to be able to follow the action and make necessary adjustments to the camera.  John solved those problems, too, with a remote control and remote viewing glasses.  We’ve been using this proprietary technology for years.

Do You Really Need a Drone?

Before drones were the sexy new ask, we’d been capturing special wedding shots from our unique camera for a variety of purposes.  For instance, many Indian weddings feature a vigorous dance competition between the men and the women.  The crowd is so excited by these events there’s no room for a videographer at the edge of the dance floor.  That’s fine.  We set up our cameras at the back of the crowd and video from above.  We get a great perspective of the dance and wonderful closeups of the faces both on the stage and in the crowd.

By using this technology, we’re able to get the shots a drone would get and in some cases do it better.  Drones come with their own set of problems.  They can be distracting.  There are air spaces where they’re not allowed.  Weather conditions can prohibit their use.  Footage taken with a drone can be shaky or out of focus.  None of these challenges arise with our sky-high remote camera.

You want a drone?  You can get a drone – but its going to cost you.  Contact us to discuss using our sky-high technology for your wedding.

At this point of the summer break from school, moms are hearing a lot of complaints about boredom.  LeniCam, a Dallas Videographer Company, is anything but bored.  In fact, this summer has been full of new and unique projects.

Brides

Summer is bridal season for us and as usual, we’ve sent our videographers to many this year.  A trend we are seeing is a preference for wedding trailers over the more traditional highlight videos.  The trailers are shorter in length, have little to no relation to the order of the events and the activity in the video is often cued to a favorite song or music from the celebrations.

These wedding trailers are designed for sharing on the internet and our brides love them.  The trailers are just part of the LeniCam wedding video package we’d like to design for you.  Our full length, fully customised, fully edited video of your wedding will include all your special moments, before, during and after your celebrations.  The scene selection feature allow you to watch the whole video or pick out a particular moment in your day.  You’ll have five copies of your BluRay or DVD discs to share with family and friends.  You can even choose alternate audio tracks to capture sweet words from your new spouse you don’t want to share with anyone else.

Sports

With kids out of school, sports are a great distraction.   Just last week, we were the official videographer for a soccer tournament.  We were on-site at the soccer fields taking orders from coaches and parents and then our videographers would capture the games for digital and disc delivery.

But soccer isn’t our only sport.  We started the summer riding along with a car club’s East Texas Road Rally.  Our videographer set up in the backseat of a convertible and captured the excitement as the cars sped down the winding roads of the Piney Woods.  Occasionally the caravan  would pull into a small town and the proud owners would open up their hoods to show off their muscle.  At the end of the day everyone gathered for an exciting awards event.

Our founder was particularly glad when he discovered we’d booked a track event.  It’s a sport he participated in during his school days.  He was determined to be the videographer for the event and our associate producer had to juggle a lot of schedules to make that happen, but we made it happen.

This is just sampling of the type of sports events we frequently capture.  Whatever the game from football and baseball, to fencing and golf, we’re the guys and gals you want to call.

Dance

Have you ever been to an arangetram?  We’ve developed a real specialty for these wonderful celebrations of traditional Indian dance.  In fact, every day of the weekends in June, we had videographers filming at the Eisemann Center, where these events are often held.

We help commemorate many kinds of dance.  LeniCam frequently works with local dance studios to capture everything from formal ballet recitals to exciting talent shows.  We can even help with the distribution and sales of these events through our website.

Special Events and Corporate Videos

If an event is special to you, it’s special to us.  We share happy celebrations like birthdays and anniversaries, but we also produce videos of funerals.  We all so produce many kinds of video for business and commerce, from training films to promotional materials.  All events share certain requirements, but each type of event has its own demands.  Even more important to you is that no two events is exactly alike, so we take time to understand what you expect in your video and that’s what we do.

Contact us today to discuss your project at 972-378-0446 or info@lenicam.com.

Dallas Event Videographer For All Your Important Moments

The phenomena of selfies has changed us.  We send each other photos and videos with our smartphones and social media all the time.  Visual media is expected whether you’re bragging on your kids or trying out a new restaurant.

Even with all this self-provided coverage, professionally produced videos are in great demand.  We started our business with wedding videography, but it’s not all we do.  If you need a professionally produced video for personal events, sporting events, recitals or business, this Dallas Event Videographer is here for you.  In fact, we’re discovering that as the popularity of videos grows, the demand for our service is also growing and the list of types of events we cover also grows.

Why Choose a Professional?

As the popularity of video has increased, the technology for it has improved and the cost of the technology has gone down so you many wonder why you’d need a professional videographer in the first place.  Well, here are a few reasons:

1. Utilizing a professional videographer frees up your friends, family and guests from having to be responsible for running the video camera and the finished product will have a more polished look to it because of the videographer’s equipment and experience.
2. Professional-grade cameras produce a higher quality video than consumer grade cameras, because of their increased zoom capabilities and other features.  In addition, LeniCam has custom-designed proprietary cameras to perform specialized tasks
3. A professional videographer provides special lighting to increase the quality of what you see in the video.  Too much light and not enough light are both degrade your viewing experience.
4. A professional videographer brings a suite of audio equipment to capture sound.  Mics on the camera will pick up ambient sounds.  Wireless mics pick up specific conversations.  Direct feed captures clean audio from a venue’s own sound system.
5. A professional videographer will provide peripheral equipment like tripods and dollies in order to enhance their capability to capture action.
6. A professional videographer will edit and mix video and audio to create a Hollywood-like appearance to your event.
7. A professionally produced video will be customized to match your event, from cover art to chapter headings to alternate tracks.

Capturing Joy. Creativity, Excellence and Sorrow

Life has many seasons and so does videography.  We’re hired to share in the joy of weddings, mitzvahs, quinceneras,birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and other happy occasions.  Our cameras also celebrate creativity as we record dance recitals, musical events, dramatic presentations and other artistic endeavors.  A list of all the excellence we capture on playing fields and in arenas would be a long one.  It would include team sports like lacrosse, soccer, football and baseball, as well as individual endeavors like fencing, karate and golf.  Another type of excellence we record is professional excellence, in training and promotional films.

Unfortunately life also has sorrows and in recent years we’ve noticed more and more families are hiring us for funerals and memorial services.  Though sadness accompanies death, these services are a summary of well-lived lives.  They are also the gathering of family and friends, just like a wedding or birthday.  The memories from these events are just as important as the memories created at happier occassions.

Whatever your event, LeniCam is ready with the equipment, people and experience to create a video you will cherish.  Call us now to discuss your upcoming event.

LeniCam Video Productions – Dallas Event Videographer

Dallas Event Videographer,

Creates Exciting Contest

for January’s Dallas Bridal Show

Your Most Romantic Moment Could Win Free Love Story Video!

 Your Most Romantic Moment

You know which moment we mean! The one you hold closest to your heart. The one that gives you chills, brings tears to your eyes and always causes smiles. One moment best represents why you’re going to marry him. That’s your most romantic moment.

Your Love Story Video

Your Love Story Video will tell your story in images, words, music and interviews. The content adds context to your wedding celebrations, but that’s only the beginning. Your Love Story will be part of your marriage, too.

A wedding brings together two sets of family and friends. Many guests haven’t met one another and some may not even have even met the bride or groom. They want the inside scoop. Playing your Love Story before the ceremony and/or at your reception fills in the blanks and paints the whole picture for your guests, on both sides of the aisle. They’ll see who you were before you met, how you met, how your relationship grew and your engagement. The video will spark conversations; bring gales of laughter and buckets of tears.

Your Love Story Video can also be an important part of pre-wedding events like bridal showers and rehearsal dinners. Your closest friends and family will love to see the role they’ve played in your lives and in your romance.

As wonderful as your wedding season will be, it will come to an end. Your Love Story Video becomes even more important to your marriage than it was during the festivities. Your Love Story is a permanent record of who you were before you met, how you met, your relationship, your engagement and the music that tied it all together. It will always be there to remind you of those special moments. As much as we want to believe we will never forget, time steals away pieces of our precious memories every day.

So How Can You Win a Free Professional Produced Love Story?

Come to the LeniCam Video Productions, Dallas Event Videographer, booth at The Dallas Bridal Fair January 24 and 25 at Dallas Market Hall (Link to site). There one of our wedding videographers will capture you with our professional grade HD videocameras as you describe your Most Romantic Moment. We’ll post your video to our Facebook Page during the next week and then you can invite all your friends and family to “like” it. The bride with the most “likes” wins the free Love Story Video.

You’ll only have two minutes to tell us about your moment, so practice what you’re going to say. Then come see us at the Dallas Bridal Fair. You could be the winning bride.

LeniCam Video Productions, Dallas Event Videographer, was founded in 2003, but our founder, John Lenihan recorded a wedding for the first time in 1977. The wedding was his own. Technology has changed a lot since then, but the intense desire to capture once-in-a-lifetime events to be enjoyed over and over is the same.

Wedding Videography

Weddings are where we started and we still do more wedding videos than any other kind, but we go to a lot more weddings than John could shoot himself. On any given weekend during wedding season our experienced Dallas Event Videographer teams go to multiple weddings, in pairs and alone – often to more than one wedding in a single day.

Our experience is important, but so is our equipment. We’ve custom-designed proprietary video cameras that allow us to get the shots other videographers can’t. We know the wedding venues in Dallas and the Metroplex, and our equipment allows us to shoot around their rules for videography equipment and camera-persons. Our remote control video cameras keep us in the background while we capture tight close-ups of wedding vows. Our hands-free lapel microphones pick up the important words of the day without requiring anyone to juggle a hand mic or be tied to a microphone stand. Our wheeled dollies can smoothly follow you across the dance floor and out to your waiting limousine. We’re ready for your wedding.

Sports Videography

You name the sport and we have the videos. Our sports clients range from High School Booster Clubs who hire us to create season videos of varsity football teams to individual players who want to send lacrosse highlight videos to prospective colleges. When it comes to sports, we’re not just fair-weather friends, either. We’re prepared to record, if you’re going to play, no matter what the Texas skies deliver.

As we have with weddings, we’ve also developed proprietary equipment that helps us out on the sidelines. After competing with soccer moms and football dads for a spot next to the field, we figured out a way to have our videographer on the ground, but our camera up above the spectators. That guy on the sidelines with the ski mask might be our Dallas Event Videographer using special glasses to monitor our video camera shots. The remote control allows him to direct the camera to follow the action.

Special Events Videography

Weddings aren’t the only special events we capture. We’re busy with special occasions of every variety. We cover school events from stage productions to banquets, personal events from bar mitzvahs to quinceaneras and recitals of every kind.

We’re very strong in recitals. We’ll be very glad to capture your little sweetheart on her special day, but we can do more than that. Many organizations in the area turn to us to create videos of their performances because we provide turnkey service. We record the footage, produce customized videos and distribute the finished product.

Corporate Videography

The business solutions videography offers are limitless, especially in this digital world. You need an app for that? We can help. Training, marketing, human resources, recruiting, documentation, verification, litigation, conferences? We’ve been there and we’ve done that. We can set up your scene, write your script, direct your participants, capture your footage and distribute your video. This Dallas Event Videographer does what we do, so you can stay focused on what you do.

Videography Synergy

What we’ve discovered by producing all these different types of videos is that we’re better in each and every type of videography, because of the lessons we’ve learned in the others. We’re better prepared to meet the needs of one client, because we’ve met the needs of others. For instance, the equipment we developed for the soccer sidelines recently solved a wedding venue conundrum – and that kind of synergy happens often.
Another benefit of our wide-reaching lenses is the inventory of equipment we are able to maintain. Our shelves are full of video, audio and photography equipment. We can produce DVDs, Blu-Ray, digital and live feed. Beyond just a wide variety of cameras and video cameras, we have lights, microphones, speakers, projectors, dollies, tripods and more. We also store your footage on our secure servers.

LeniCam Video Productions, an award-winning wedding videographer is the Dallas Event Videographer you can call for all your audio/visual needs. Call or email us today to discuss your project.