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I dont know why people are crying about N1million camcoreder. if he has the money no probs. its like investing into business. he is not buying it for family video. most people that are saying its too much ask them how much they need to start the business they love. they will call millions of naira.

N1million camcorder is small. if you were to buy it from south africa you pay more than that. a sony z7 cost N1.4 million and if i have money i wont buy anythinbg less than that.

Soji, I believe in investing into camera but for someone like me that will always need dollies, jibs etc i will prefer to start with grips and light before camera. A lecturere of mine bought a camera for N1.4 million 4 years ago but now with HD very few will want to use his SD professional camera. This is how I want to go. I want to acquire as much light and grip as possible then afterwards go into camera. I dont know how it is in nigeria but grip and light sometimes cost more in rental than camera so i will prefer to save money on those gears. anyway we all have different ideas of how to go about it.

hey soji check this site out. it might be useful for you. www.dvcamerarigs.com

you will find out that people shouting give to the poor dont even give at all.

fellis:
Bishoptboy,
I was surprised to read what you wrote about lecturers being fired due to students' poor performance. So such things actually happen? Can anything like that ever happen in Nigeria? Another sad side of this whole thing is the helplessness of students in all this. In the school I study, there are certain lecturers who openly demand bribe, even during lectures, for one of them, they have been reported for I don't even know how many times, but they havn't been stopped. They still carry on with the oppression.

I had a lecturer in South africa who was alsmost begging us to do well in his exam. he said if you guys dont do well i wont be employed next year. i guess he wasnt a permanent staff.

When i was studying in nigeria one of my computer science teacher in Unilorin who fails student in computer science cant even browse. I always browse for him cos he wants his wife to study in canada so i get him info about study abroad for him.

to talk about hostel life. i lived in a room that is meant for 8 people but we are 30 people living there!!!!

about post graduate. i advice my friends who are in depatments like engineersing to come study here cos they study for free and even get bursary. in naija how many nigerians study for free in their own country. I know two guys now that studied for free (with an average of N60k salary from the school) and are now working with good pay.

the thing be say everybody will shout their own university even though we all know what we went thru in our school.

According to a site (www.4icu.org/topAfrica) for 2009 ranking the Nigerian university with the highest ranking is University of Ilorin (33rd position)

here is another site that shows university of benin as the highest ( http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=africa ) and its are standing at 68th position.

I studied at University of Ilorin but I cant advice my enemy to go there even though its standing as one of the best in nigeria. I now study at Tshwane Unversity of Technology in SOuth Africa and the difference is toooooooooooooooo much. Until Naija university changes by God's grace my kids wont study there cos when you study outside of Nigeria you see the difference. Our governtment is killing our education and they send their own kids outside the country. some of our leaders even studied abroad and they know the differnece but they would never go home and implement what they see. our lecturers go out and study under good condition but come home to be sadist and are always happy to fail student. In in my department here in south africa if students fail a lecturer can be fired for it but in Unilorin lecturers are excited to fail students. SO SAD

sojioguns:
I strongly believe in bringing talents together to work. THat's the only way we can get the best.

I agree with you on that. we can change alot if we come together with our talents and specialties.

Great video. I love it and respect sir.

1. I felt you should have hidden the MAC logo in the first video.
2. you should have shot one of the video showing the car moving on a nice road not razz road. I said it because there was to much similarities in the three video. I mean the shots

I have never done a project this cool. respect again.

@ Lfunk
I will advice you to spend as much as you can on gears and dont listen to people that tell you to give your money to the poor cos they dont know about investing into gears.

My second advice is that due to the rate at which technology moves you have ask yourself if you can make the money back. if you do get good pay project often and you know that you can make back your money in a year i will advice you go for it cos we dont know what they will bring out next year. you can spend N1million now and the next thing you find out your camera is obsolete before you even make back your money. you have clients asking you for the latest camera while you are still trying to make back your money from your old camera.

I will prefer to invest my money into lights and grips cos those gears dont get outdated as fast as a camera. In south africa film makers and production houses prefer to rent gears than buy them cos its economical. they only invest into gears when they have constant jobs like TV show or series

Iron man
X-men Night crawler

ijaw_girl:
Halle Berry in every film she has acted apart from Monster ball and gladiator

hally berry in gladiator ke. maybe she wants to say swordfish

Na you dey always follow me about and attack me. i need a seek a court restraining order against.
Anyway just kidding.

Gosh i just cheked the AMAA list now. Nollywood should be ashamed. Kenya took the major. we make quantity and not quality. i tell you that south africa did not really entered into all the category cos if they did with their films nigeria wont get anything.

we should plead with our music video editors to save nollywood. we are one of the best in music video but Kenya still won editing.
Burkina Faso won animation. too bad

I am still searching for that Nollywood that I would be proud to tell anybody to watch cos its good. but i havent found any yet. I have not watched any nollywood in ages and I was told Jenifa is good but after watching it i was so angry that i felt like breaking my PC.
I dont know why people say we are trying. has our films improved from the days of Hostages and Violated. the only thing that gets better is the cloth and wigs our actress put on. they storyline is weaker and the film is rushed. I prefer to watch those old nollywood that the rubish being chunked out daily now. SOMEONE HAS TO CONVINCE ME THAT WE HAVE GOTTEN BETTER FROM EARLY 1990's

you guys that can get to download stuff is lucky. we have to buy bytes over herre. its like buying airtime and you dont want to use it for movies. so we are stuck with cinemas. if its not out on cinema then i cant really get to watch it.

larayat:
u again wit ur critics

I don leave you for Jenifa o. I'm here talking about a South African director making waves in US now. you still follow me come here. wetin i do for you now? why not lets discuss X-men 4 and Gavin Hood and if you dont know about it its fine i understand, Jenifa all the way

directed by South African Gavin Hood. he has directed few films. his first full lenght feature film was reasonable man the tsotsi then he made Rendition and now x-men:the origins. he has directed very few films before xmen
Can Nollywood learn something from this? this guy made a good film (tsotsi) and won an award and after that the sky is the limits for him. we should aspire to make something good and not just cheap juju films.

noetic:
liverpool murdered. . . , . suspects branislav ivanovic and didier drogba. . .  

we announce with deepest regret and sorrow that the body of the victims (all chelsea haters) were found in their homes with 3 bullets in their chest. two from ivanovic and one from drogba [quote][/quote]

liverpool 1 - chelsea 3 in your face player hater.

I would love to won ex1 or ex3. i have not really used canon that much so i dont know much about it. i'm more exposed to sony and panasonic but if i'm to choose between ex1 and hvx200 i would choose sony cos i'm a sony fan. i was told by a guy that panasonic is good if you know how to operate it well and that suprises me cos i dont believe a camera is supposed to be rocket science. i pick up sony and work well with it but panasonic i dont get anything exceptional out of it.

I feel Will Smith might be involved cos he also produced the film and knows it will sell more cos he stars in it. Producers are more concerned about the box office and not not much about the oscars.

I have learnt that you get to some level in this industry that its all about the benjamins o.

anyways its not one of my best. i just felt it wasnt as bad to me as people said it was. i like to get out of a movie feeling happy and exited or feeling sad for a character. i guess i felt sad for the other guys not really Will's character.
I agree that they tried to be patronising but i dont agree that his acting was bad. what i saw was him trying to communicate subtly a man dying inside but trying to hide it by smiling. If i could get that out of my actor i will be happy. cos it was convincing for me.

I am a film maker also and what i have learnt is that you cannot satisfy all audience. you should just know who you want to cater for. take for example Tyler Perry, this guy doesnt cater for the serious movie wathcer. he know his audience and they love his film. I respect the guy but i prefer to watch his stage drama cos i dont really fancy his film cos they are not my kind of film. his films are somekind of a fairy tale to me. but never the less i respect him and i'm one of his fan.

I once told my lecturer-who is a film critic that i dont want to make art films i want to make the cheesy kind of film but with a strong message just like Tyler Perry does cos my audience are not the film critics but an average movie goer. I will like to make films like Night at a Museum and not Requiem for a dream which most of my classmates love.

what i'm just simply saying is that know your audience as a film maker and cater for them. i checked rotten tomatoes and it the comment was mixed, some love it and some dont.

this is just my own view on film making. everybody will not like 7 pounds just like everbody will not like slumdog millionaire. but this is what i belive some movies are generally accepted to be good and some are generally accepted to be bad. i think 7 pounds is in between. cheers

Sisi Jinx:
Lmao! The Nigerian Dynasty clan. . .people whatever are Nigerians ooh or at least they have Nigerian names

Chief Aboyami Bankole Omotoso
Bola Abayomi Fabian Lojede
Folake Abayomi Moky Makura

Okay maybe one of them has Nigerian name. . . me I no sabi Fabian for Naija ooh and what is Moky?

I know Fabian personally and he is Nigerian. Bankole is Akin Omotoso's father and he (Bankole) is the face of Vodacom south africa. he is a professor of the university of stellinborsh in south africa. I learn't Moky is Nigerian too but i have not met her before. Akin (Bankole's son) is one of the respected directors in South Africa. he has a production company called Tom Pictures (www.tompictures.co.za)
Akin is in pre-production on a Ken Saro Wiwa film and Honsou Djimon of blood diamond is said to act Ken Saro Wiwa. if you have seen Lord of War with nicolas cage. Akin acted and the liberian rebel leader that shot nicolas cage brother.

Sisi Jinx:
Bwahahahaha!! Is it only Jealousy. . . they will even call you enemy of progress, unpatriotic. I had one guy call me a witch. . . no wait it was wizard once. 

I don't take 'em seriously. . . I mean how can you when these are the same people who think baba suwe with charcoal jumping up and down is award winning acting?

Anyway, this is the plot of JC

You are not the only one. they say i'm not patrotic and i'm jealous of other people. its sad that we dont strife for excellence.

Our people measure the success of our industry by the fact that actors just bought a jeep. they said Jenifa is the best film from nollywood because Funke bought jeep after the film was released. gosh!

I'm not comparing i said there werre some elements of the machinist in 7 pounds.
1. look at will smith. he was leaner that the guy in hancock.
2. christian bale character ran over a kid and that hunts him and the same with will's character
3. both and the end felt the peace they longed for
4. both story weren't told chronologically

i feel they borrowed some things from the machinist.

i agree with you that he was a kind of massiah character which doesnt work for us all, myself inclusive. but lets also think about this. the movie isnt made for us only. i aways say this even though i believe nollywood is crap i still feel they are doing something right and that is the fact that they are servicing some audience out there. so even if we dont respect the film some people do. for me its not crappy but not the best of film.

I like the way this discussion is going.
iice i felt he did the sacrifice out of guilt of causing the death of others. I also felt their aim was to make something patronizing. they set out to make a heavy movie. the guy directed pursuit of happiness and he i guess he likes movies like that. thats just my own thought. I'm not saying its the best of movies but i think what i saw wasnt that bad. the director must have watched too many indian films  . i agree with you that it was patronising but maybe that was their target. i will like to read the director's thought on the film.

jesoul i like the fact that he never gave a clue of what happened. that was what got me cos i love to figure out a film from the beginning and they got my attention when i couldnt figure it out. i am a fan of film that doesnt go chronological and keeps me guessing. hey man you paid $10 for a film thats somehow expensive cos i paid equivalent of $1.2

anyway its not the best of film but not bad also.

guys do you feel their was a connection with christian bale's the machinist

Larayat, Larayat, Larayat! how many time i call you. its not about winning an argument cos i have learnt that once people want to win an argument they close their eyes to the truth. I'm not into argument. YOU WIN if thats what you want. But know this Jenifa remains a very very bad film and i gave you reason why its bad but you dont have reasons why its good cos you never even analyse a film!

If Lakesisde doesnt return lets rest the case. you don win!!!!

I decided not to comment on this page cos I only saw it once and i felt it wasnt that bad. I cant really analyse it well cos i saw it once but, instead of just saying its crappy, its bad, why not analyse it and tell us reasons why you think its bad. I remember i like the fact that i wasnt spoonfed the whole movie. i felt will's acting convinced me. cos of the subtility in the way he conveyed his character.
ok lets just take it bit by bit. what do you think of
1. Acting (tell us why you think it was bad)
2. storyline and plots
3. camera and editing
etc.

why i'm doing this is because i feel the guys in this tread know something about film. I'm not talking to die hard nollywood fans here.
later!

they already got me. even if the storyline is bad i will still respect them for pushing the limits. I cant wait for it to be out and i will get it.

I watched the whole of season one and two and I must confess I really respet those guys. Its a pity that naija doesnt have any series to match JC. We are not developing cos our film (or whatever we have) is so messed up. I learnt that people make movies with their own money and sell it to marketers. where in the world is that done. we just make trash and sell it once we can afford to pay jim iyke and rita dominic to to appear in it.

for us to improve we need to re-visit the whole structure of the industry and shake things up. I study film in south africa and soon will shoot my first nollywood when the script and finance is ready cos i'm not rushing at all.

this is what they say if you kill one prophet, seven will rise. I leave lakeside 44 and larayat to continue the argument.

haleluyah she is selling. ok , you don win larayat. i give up jenifa is da real "naija blockbuster".

as per LL cool J iknew he was going to make it. most of the time innocent guys do make it. you see in film guys like cooks, cleaner etc dont die. kids hardly die, if there are more than one innocent lady one will die the other will survive. they always try to keep the innocent.
watch horror film the innocent girl doent get eaten by the monster. the one thats promiscious die. i learnt they use horror to discourage promiscuity in those days.

firstly there is no two films that are to be the same. if there are two films that are the same then one is not necessary. I'm comparing two Yoruba/nollywood films i.e saworiode and Jenifa. i asked you to compare two films one from the early 90's and one from now annd tell me how we have improved. but you didnt. all you are talking of is "lets see if your film makes it to oscars" that is the problem i have been shouting. dont attach me lets talk Jenifa and nollywood.
secondly i never contradicted myself. i said nollywood makes bad movies and the ones we made years back are sometimes better than what we are making now. Tunde Kelani is known for good yoruba films.

thirldly if you caled what those old women did as perfect then i think we should stop this talk cos i guess you dont even know good acting. you call that over the top perfect acting. you need to ask someone who knows good acting to tell you what a good acting is. Nollywood is known outside of nigeria for over the top acting which you can only find on stage and not film. someone needs to teach those guys what good acting is. for me that was bad acting.
talking of casting if you cast wrongly you cant convince me that wrong casting gives good acting. its like argueing with the police that your 5 years old boy can drive very well. he is 5 man! he is not supposed to be driving. why cant they cast young girls that can act. are you telling me they cant find any. its like casting a 25 years old boy to be a grand dad and saying he acted it well. even if he did it wont be convincing.

Larayat this is not about winning an arguement, its about seeing the truth and accepting it. if we continue to run nollywood the way its run now, mark my words 100 years from now we wont grow. if nollywood need to grow then we neeed to change the whole process of film making. its only in nollywood that marketers call the shot.

deep blue sea was predictable for me. i know they will keep the cool LL cool J. but i never really expected the girl to die. for me as per jesse james, i never expected the film to have that twist. i thought killing jesse james was the good thing for people but didnt expect them to turn around and later kill his killers cos he (jesse james) was the villain of the film.
for perfume, seeing the villain live was crazy and i thought he was going to be caught when he attempted to kill his last victim.

Hey, just remembered how Perfume ended. that was a very very crazy one. i learnt the writer of the film is very weird