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topetall (f)
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Alright, you gats to improve yourself in everyway it means, then as u are doing listen 2 suggestions from friends ,enemies, critics, mentors, protogees and you just might pick something from those who condemn you. then d most important follow through.thank you  |
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slavia (m)
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Honestly i think some of our Naija movies has very good concepts, all iam sayin is that its not the concept that is the issue.
nigerian stars, producers and directors should get it into their thick skull that movies is not like buying and selling. they are mostly intersted in making money from the sale of the movies, thats unfortunate.
u have to be ready to learn from others and most especially spend money in your movies. Naija has the most vibrant movie industry in the world second to bollywood but our movies sub standard and poorly conceived and therefore will not sell as it should beyond the shores of Africa. naija should take a look at some south African movies(my God they are spectacular) while naija movies are competing with plays-------------SHAME!!!!
a lot of work needs to be done especially in orientation. the viewers shouldnt just swallow anything they should ask for better value for their money.
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powerofmap (m)
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@ Owenja "Most of their so-called scripts are plagiarised hollywood scripts"
I think i disagree with you on that.Nollywood is growing and still I will stand on my point.I think a Film Critic Board that can air a programe to identify a good home videos for the family on a weekly basis would also help.
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combrazor (m)
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powerofmap--
i agree with on the general idea that more vigorous film criticism would definitely help improve the quality to some degree. the only part i disagree is that it should be some kind of film critic board
it shouldn't be a "board"; critics should be more or less independent.
but there's even a bigger problem with that: film criticism is typically written--and as i said in another post (which i think got censored) Nollywood movies are generally aimed at people who can't or don't read.
so what good would film criticism do them?
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powerofmap (m)
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 Da Prof na True you talk,
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combrazor (m)
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hey, POM--i still do think that film criticism can be relayed to the public, even if it's not in a written form.
there can be a film review television show, for instance. but i can think of a few reasons why a show like that could be problematic in Nigeria.
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Seun (m)
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Note to upcoming producers: If you can't make your dream film, you can just produce a film review show!
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combrazor (m)
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one problem i see arising with a movie review show on Nigerian television stems from the fact that in Nigeria we don't really have a widespread appreciation for free speech and also, most of the people in the movie business don't have a real respect for the art and craft and filmmaking.
therefore, when you go on TV and publicly critique movies, i'd expect the producers and marketers (hell, even the actors) to take things a bit too personally. if you say, "this film is not very good because of x, y and z," it's less likely that they'd take notes and say "okay, we need to improve in x, y, z" ways--instead, they would feel that you are discouraging the public from supporting the product they have poured their money into and thus, are trying to take food out of their mouths.
and then the next thing you know, machete-wielding thugs are showing up at your studio or even your home--
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Seun (m)
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You can review only good movies. If a movie is bad, just pretend it doesn't exist. Problem solved |
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combrazor (m)
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yes, i was going to suggest that as one way around the problem!
but then, you end up undermining the purpose of having such a program in the first place, though.
i guess another way would to try to be a bit--gentle in your approach to "bad" movies. there's a way to get the point across without explicitly bashing them.
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Seun (m)
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The bad reviews could be harmless one-liners. Something like "unfortunately, the movie didn't work for us".
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kemibaby
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seun,
Just my humble thoughts. i am a producer in vancouver.
first and foremost
1. story story story. the chacters in a story must be very strong and must have goals.
2. then, get trained people, people who went to film school to work on your film.
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whiteroses (f)
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i'm not sure of ways to improve the secondary faults but socially fire their director and bring in a sensible one, all movie quality depend on director. i hate it when girls like wear bad ass wig, black lipstick, blue eyeshadow and yellow wig, they think it's pretty but it's unproffesional and raz.
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bishoptboy (m)
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I think it was Alfred Hitchock(i'm not sure now) that was asked "three things that makes a good script" and he said "the script, the script, the script".
Until we start getting good script we cannot leave this level we are in. script isnt the only thing but film start from the script. once we get good script then we can move to the next thing like good directing. but intill then lets atop the argument about unprofessionalism of actors(don't get me wrong, i'm not saying we have great actors).
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combrazor (m)
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i still maintain that the problem is not the scripts.
as i have said before, a lot of Nollywood movies do start out with decent scripts, but it takes a strong production to maintain the integrity of the script from the page to the screen.
when the production is not solid, the script falls apart in the translation, and that is what happens very often in the case of Nollywood: people start of with big dreams and ambitious screenplays, but by the time it comes to producing it, they realize that they can't find the location for this scene, they can't afford to pay extra actors for that scene, they don't have the props for another scene, production is running out of money, we need to cut 10 scenes out of the script in order to wrap the movie tomorrow--
by the end of it, what you are left with is an incoherent mess and the viewer says "what kind of nonsense story is this?"
but it wasn't nonsense when it started out.
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bishoptboy (m)
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I have never been on any production in nollywood before so I can't say that they decent script but bad production. all I know is that the film sucks, starting with the storyline. I agree that its a bad production I believe the whole thing started with bad script then to bad director, illetrate producer, cheap and bad actors then to bad editing and they end it with bad packaging. everything is bad.
I agree with combrazor who said bad production. I have seen film with not too good storyline but good production and it comes out good. so if nollywood can't give us good stories at least they should improve on the level of production.
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FMK (m)
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your answers seem to be right but I Think Nigeria Culture Minister needs to implement movies Analysts department. this to analyze History ready to be Applied before acting and launching because some actions need to be written off such as sexy action love action what Happen , the way that we act during the action is the same way that seem to be an Actif coincidencial in personality and attidude of the Actor if you act as Priest or Pastor your consideration will be respectfull even in your Life if you act as sexy girl ith Kiss and sleeping with a man, the actor and actress loose the dignity and the respect. people will treat you forever as harlot or Prostitute i know that productors and directors of movies are bihind the profit but the problem Is, you are killing African Dignity customs and the culture what kind of contribution can these movies give to the Nigerian Nation for Country development ?
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