Their colour sulks

i know what you mean man, this is the main reason why i could never sit down with one of my oyinbo friends and watch a nollywood film cuz its so embarassing. its not even that expensive to buy a professional camera that gives that hollywood sort of colour. it really annoys me that some nigerian directors and movie makers are so ignorant

Believe me, cameras are the least of their problems

its not the cameras! the pictures are okay its bleeping background noise that gets to me!!!
i can hear da bloody director/producer/marketer talking! the dogs barking, the generator! the traffic-everyone honking for no reason at all, you can even see the mic from the top! i mean it takes less than an hourto fix all these problems!!

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i keep enduring, to see if there would be any sort of improvement, but. NOWAY.
d one dat gets to me is the part were onlookers keep watching sheepishly @ d cameras.sometimes they even pack them one side so that d can go ahead with the shooting.all the while showing the ugly and embarrasing setting of the packed onlookers.
talk less of the names they brand movies. I just crashed into one today called, "My Private Part".lol. imagine!!
9ja  get dem own wahala, God knows

i keep enduring, to see if there would be any sort of improvement, but. NOWAY.
d one dat gets to me is the part were onlookers keep watching sheepishly @ d cameras.sometimes they even pack them one side so that d can go ahead with the shooting.all the while showing the ugly and embarrasing setting of the packed onlookers.

Loool dis comment made me laugh soo much, especially the enduring part. If me and my younger bro ever wanna laugh at something we always watch naija films with the most random and oddeest names. LoL"my private part"

let them start with the easy ones first, good scripts from educated and seasoned script writes,professional directors and not half baked alaba market boys turned directors and producers, if you have the most expensive cameras and the storylines,directing are wack then all you ll get is a rubbish movie with good visuals

Dont care about cameras as long as plot/story lines are refreshing and original

Visuals can come later

vescucci:

Believe me, cameras are the least of their problems

True. . . .the ones I've seen lately are very entertaining, so i really cant complain!!

There are good nigerian movies out there.Take time and look.

As an insider, i must say that there are so many things that come into play in a typical 9ja movie and I'll just try to mention a handfull.

1. Hollywood uses 35mm Cameras (Celluloid) while Nollywood uses DVCAMS (tapes). The pictures can never be the same. The earlier is very expensive, infact there is no processing lab in the whole of the country for celluloid. There used to be one in jos operated by a government agency (Nigerian Film corporation) but it goes without saying that such a facility can only be maintained properly when run by a non-govt owned establishment.

2. We do what i call mercantile drama. Movies just for the money which unfortunately pays attention only to the stars in the movie and not the content such as storyline, plot, directorial style etc, etc. The financiers are after their proceeds.

3. Moviemaking is a team effort. Having said this a tree cant make a forest, so you realised that some key areas in a movie are not handled well which leads to poor quality. There are many untrained personnel who have no plans to undergo training.

4. Low budgets. A movie shoot is schedule to last for maybe 7 days and even when there are kids crying in the house of maybe a couple who are supposed to be barren in the movie, nothing much can be done about it.

5. Bad orientation and attitude.
I believe that nothing good comes easy. Alot of people don't want to pay the price to get out a good job.

Nevertheless, there are still good movies in the midst of the whole pack, Check out Desmond Elliot's RELOADED,

TO BE CONTINUED!! WATCH OUT FOR PART 2, TO GOD BE THE GLORY,
LOL

We really do need HD cameras. I can't stand to watch these movies.

chrisandy:

Their colour sulks

It really sulks!

Cameras are not the only problem but bad storyline, bad lines (script), bad acting and many more. we make good music video because we take time to edit it nicely becuse we know channel O will not take rubbish and give it good colour but when it comes to films everything is rushed because we know people will buy and watch rubish.

Yes exactly. And we need actors to actually step up and act; stop relying on your so called "good looks" and get your acting chops together. We would also appreciate better movie names .We will get there soon don't worry.

If you watch the new music videos and the new Nollywood movies, the difference is so blatantly obvious, makes you wonder if the video producers and movie producers are on different planets,

not all i watched "letter to a stranger" recently and the sound, colour was very good

vanitty:

not all i watched "letter to a stranger" recently and the sound, colour was very good

is that a new film, who and who were in?
out of 10 how will you rate it?

Tee hee hee, Let' start with a good script.

Dis Guy
The sound, lighting, e.t.c was very good. The script might not be to everyone's taste but i loved it.
You can watch it all on youtube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGsW_4hkOk

Its not the foriegn cameras? What do u mean by foriegn camera? Nigeria doesnt make Camera's. What is needed here in Nollywood is Cinema laguage on screen laguage. Visual sense. Lighting. Painting with light. Worship light, Adore it, appreciate it and steal it when you can. You will have all the great visuals everyone is talking about hollywood and bollywood. Lighting and Framing the camera makes the difference guys. Even when you make a film with ur phone camera. I am an Indian filmmaker i like tunde kilani's work. He lights up well and there is quality. So its not the "Foriegn Cameras " which makes the difference

yamakasi:

Its not the foriegn cameras? What do u mean by foriegn camera? Nigeria doesnt make Camera's. What is needed here in Nollywood is Cinema laguage on screen laguage. Visual sense. Lighting. Painting with light. Worship light, Adore it, appreciate it and steal it when you can. You will have all the great visuals everyone is talking about hollywood and bollywood. Lighting and Framing the camera makes the difference guys. Even when you make a film with ur phone camera. I am an Indian filmmaker i like tunde kilani's work. He lights up well and there is quality. So its not the "Foriegn Cameras " which makes the difference

you are so right. i said this 2yrs ago and somone nearly had me for dinner.

BenHundred:

We really do need HD cameras. I can't stand to watch these movies.

HD for people who cant do make up for otapiapia cameras. i beg wait till 2050AD

Nollywood is already HD. You guys are shooting 1080i. But whats the use the filmmakers are compressing them to Dv to burn Dvds and sell. If you release the fillms on screen at silverbird or genesis then people can bring in Viper or Red to shoot 2k and 4k resolution cameras,

can you give me a name pls.  i like to see how it came out.

In addition to picture quality and unnecessary background noise, the way they split the films into 2 or 3 parts is digusting. The consequence of this is unnecessary scenes like a ramsey noah driving sequence running for over 1 min 30secs. Terrible

Elo follow nairalander, pls one with greater wisdow should help me on dis, i wan 2 to buy shooting camara, bt i dont knw d one dat is more preferable in nigeria, some people told me canon 7d, some say hdv, some say hd pro, i wan to knw d best, if possible their price. Tanx, email tugrow52@yahoo.com

tugrow: Elo follow nairalander, pls one with greater wisdow should help me on dis, i wan 2 to buy shooting camara, bt i dont knw d one dat is more preferable in nigeria, some people told me canon 7d, some say hdv, some say hd pro, i wan to knw d best, if possible their price. Tanx, email tugrow52@yahoo.com

It depends on some factors, dude;

1. Your budget
2. What you intend to use it for
3. Your dedication to learning


state the answers above to give us an idea of what to advise you.

Briareos:


It depends on some factors, dude;

1. Your budget
2. What you intend to use it for
3. Your dedication to learning


state the answers above to give us an idea of what to advise you.

tanx very much for your reply, )[1]my budget is 200-500k, [2] i wan to use for film/musical video shooting, tanx