3 Composition Techniques for your Destination Wedding in the Philippines

When it comes to film technique, the traditional preference is to always keep the subject up front and center. Sure, you’ve maybe heard it every now and then and the reminder is always “dapat nasa gitna”. But putting the subject in the middle of every shot will make the whole experience of the film feel static, with less dynamic movement.


It isn’t’ the only way to frame and feature subjects—there are a lot of other framing composition techniques that not only feature the subject(s) but also make good use of the foreground and background which is especially an important highlight when celebrating a destination wedding in the Philippines.

Repoussoir

This is originally a painting technique that utilized the illusion of creating a foreground to create the illusion of depth as well as create a space where distant elements make a scene make sense. In a destination wedding, this would be a perfect way to emphasize unique elements that are endemic to the destination like flora, fauna, sculptures, and tourists markers to name a few.

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Environmental Portrait

 

This technique captures the subject contextualized by a background. In modern cinema, it is used to establish a story that tells itself even with minimal motion or dialogue; for wedding videos, the story is pretty straight forward—two people are getting wed—so it’s important to contextualize the hows and the wheres of it. Especially for destination wedding videos in the Philippines, this shot framing technique should be utilized more since a big part of a destination wedding is the location and this technique gives subject and background the same amount of importance.

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Detail Focus

Sometimes, the story is all in the details and some of best part of telling these narratives are through featuring not people but letting the audience fill in the gaps of a faceless or scenery. Not only does this technique capitalize on a destination wedding in the Philippines by making sure that the audience pays attention to objectified subject, it also makes sure they contextualize these object with the scenery.

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