***Wedding Cinema***

I am allergic to wedding cassettes. Especially when they make me to sit and view the cassette of someone's marriage, where I don’t even know the faces…I was caught in such situations when we visit someone’s house and they start this cassette mostly to carry on the conversation based on the person coming in the frame…Like if some X comes, then it will be like “you know what X does now?...”

I even watched my sisters wedding cassette mostly fast-forwarded. Why it sucks me? May be the dull texture of the camera with terrible lighting…automated smiling faces barring the real amusement of the children...never ending rituals…drained bride & groom accepting gifts (major part of the cassette) with a smile that next to screaming “when this hectic will get over!”...

If at all there is an air to breathe, then it is songs…but god!...where do they get the songs from … no one really cares about that! It all depends on the music knowledge of the studio guy…it some times become more erratic that we fast-forward to get away with the song.

When I was watching Monsoon wedding, my brother in law commented that “Yaaro kalyana cassette parpa… aana..enga caseete ellam parka maatee”.

Thinking on this … how can we make the wedding shoots more interesting...why can’t we make them in such a way that any one can watch it like a film.

Let’s leave the feasibility and use my small creativity…

- introduce bride and groom in their normal good looks and in a casual way in their own houses before wedding
- show the wedding buzz in both the respective houses…
- move to the wedding hall… empty...half filled...to crowding...shot in different angles and clear lightings
- show jubilant faces more especially young girls, neatly dressed women (!), children
- avoid crazy individual shots like bride holding a flower or visualizing some thing or groom vs bride shots.
- avoid doordarshan level graphics like showing faces in flowers, waterfalls etc
- show the gift part as small stills appearing randomly on a canvas (more stills in one canvas which refreshes after it fills out)
- not to miss the intimate talks between the bride & groom..
- not to miss the secret sight exchanges between the groom & the bride.
- show stills of people bursting out in laughter, happy faces and some fuming situations (there will be)
- show the rituals crisply and snap a still at any interesting moment.
- fix Handicams in the car to register the weepings of bride when she leaves her family and travels from them and the grooms effort to console her (can see how long she cries!)
- shoot must continue till the groom & bride reaches their home and to the aftermath of a wedding house.
- use good songs and music so that we can ever listen to them
- add clippings of the respective father, mother & friends feelings on their daughter or son..can tell how he or she like…how she is the best…best moments in their life…
- Finally edit all the shots in a perfect way as doing a film with all type of modern techniques & colours and add the songs, music appropriately

Wow..Looks like a good business scope to me…Cinematic wedding shoot in the cinema driven world, where everyone needs something different…Budding editors, cameraman and directors, who waits to prove, can come together and give a try… who knows… can click!

I had tried only a small part. If anyone interested...Please maximize your creativity on this…just a fun (looking forward to get ideas on shooting dinner hall and people eating).

For my wedding, I pray such creative shooters emerge soon and god save me if I hold a flower in the garden and pose for a still…and watch it all over my life.