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First of all, I'm very sorry you lost your job.

Then, on the issue at hand, well, my advice for you is to do research.

Read whatever you can lay your hand on about making movie.

I will send you a message though!

Someone here asked for a sample of my work recently and I wrote the attached.

Its a short story, actually. What do you guys think?

And what exactly is the reason why you've kept the admiration secret only to reveal it now? anybody?

Where has everybody gone to?

I'm honestly disappointed at you two. i mean, here we are trying to make something good and you are ego fighting. come on.

Anybody with a head on his neck and a primary school education will know the simple truth;

Nigeria Problems are the Leaders.

Not the Igbo struggling to make ends meet at Aba,

Or, the grown Hausa man hawking sweets and chewing gum in the street or the one making Suya at our campuses.

And it is not the Yoruba toiling day and night in his farm.

The Elites and the leaders are the problem.

Ever wonder why the NASS never make chairs fly when it comes to creating bogus allowance for themselves?

We need to identify who the real enemy is. But bigotism and tribalism has blinded most of us to this simple truth.

And the elites are using it against us while they are laughing at us and eating from the same pot.

When I read some comments in Nairaland, I can only wept for the individuals in this country.

The words some people use against other fellow human being is disheartening. What makes matter worse is that the victim of  these abuses did nothing except just being Yoruba or Igbo as the case maybe. Or s/he expresses an opinion different from yours.

Anyway, some one wrote:

Evil lurks in the heart of man, and anonymity tends to bring it out. Internet flamers would never say the jagged things they say if they had to sign their names. GARRISON KEILLOR, "Renouncing Evil Powers and Anonymity," A Prairie Home Companion, Jan. 12, 2010

The way the government is handling this investigation is overly terrible. Every bread crumbs, bullet casing and hair strands are been broadcast like a breakthrough,

What happened to undercover intelligence investigation?

Isn't it obvious that the best way to handle this Boko Haramists is infiltration?

Im not surprised that they haven't make any tangible progress, How can you publicize the arrest of one their members and expect them not to cut ties with him or block any way the arrested will lead the authority to them?

Nope, I don't use final draft, matter of fact, i dnt use any software.

Instead, I downloaded a MS Word template for screenplay.

The formatting is not restricted to HW alone, thats the standard for screenplays.

Check dis site for more info and also the template.

www.keithloh.com/writing/filmscript/templates.html

*Owen*,
Thanks for you input.

Yamakuza, thank you very much for your PM. I just checked it all these while.

Where has Iice gone to?

The things you need to know are:

Hollywood is very competitive. Some great movies that could have done very well elsewhere gets swept under the rug.

If you are targeting a Hollywood production, you have to know their immediate audience is the Americans. So, no body will touch a script that the theme is not palatable to the Americans.

You have a chance if your script touches on any of these themes;
Great Epic,
Renowned Political event,
War,
Great depth romance (lovers that cant be together due to any of the above),
Adaptation of the story of a great figure.

These are just my ideas and it isn't restricted to only them.

What I'm just saying is that any theme that doesn't appeal to the Americans will be hard to sell in hollywood.

Even the black hollywood is still strugling. Their dont do that well at the box office.

But if you are confident about your theme and you want to continue;

There are lots of way to go about your writing:
Google maps,
Search online for directories, Google maps,
Read some novels; they always describe the streets in details,
Google maps,
Google.com,

Also, you can talk to some Nigerians that stay abroad here on nairaland. They can help you out with the street layouts if you ask nicely.

Once again, Good Luck!

I ran into this website yesterday. Anybody that wants knowledge on a particular course should check it out.

Its like studying at MIT without the degree.

Do anybody know where I can buy Rubik cube in Nigeria? I've been looking for it albeit unsuccessful.

Any pointers will be highly appreciated.

Somebody needs to introduce Tuface to condoms!

If there is something I can bet my heart for, it is the fact that Nigerians are talented. And believe me when I say my heart is precious to me.

If we can organise and plan this very well, it can pan out well.

But the first to the last thing is: PLAN.

I'm not sure the OP is still available for this project, but we that shares the same vision as he, can and should continue.

Anybody seriously interested should drop his/her contact and a truthful capacity at which they can perform.

Please dont drop your name for dropping sake. Only drop it if you are really passionate about the vision and you know you can be available.

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I'm Briareos, i'm a Scriptwriter, and also an editor.

Old thread.

Hollywood script world works like this:

You (scriptwrite) to Agent to Producer/Production company.

First, you send what is known as a query to these agents. A query is more or less a synopsis of your story. I will advise you to google more on query writing before you attempt anything.

You'll send this query to these agents. If anyone of them is interested in your idea i.e your script story line, he will demand for the full script. After that, if he likes the script, well, congratulations.

A typical agent receives over hundreds of thousands queries per day. Im not trying to discourage you, but to let you know what you are up against. Its a muddy water.

Spend enuf time with Google and ask her for detail info on what av written above.

Goodluck.

@Yamakuza, nope, I haven't found any yet. But Im focusing on making my script better now

@Thirdborn,

Thank you v. much for your contribution, it was helpful.

In fact, I've been receiving help from nairalandist, especially Iice.

I wonder if I can send the complete edited first episode to you.

@VillageBoi, I have the same reservation about the script as you stated. I was having difficulty 'intercutting' because twas the begining of the series and there are fewer scenes to show. But I think the problem lessens after some episodes.

@TerryJ, in case you are refering to me, you can contact me on 08078844126

Wow, I can't believe somebody in his right senses will utter these kind of statement Ahmadu Bello made.

Briareos:
Buddy, I've sent it now, did you get it?

I can help too,


Iice, thanks for your help so far!

semid4lyfe:
@ OP
Ok, send me the first episode let me look at it. addy is MY NAIRALAND USERNAME@yahoo.com. . .if you get what I mean.

Buddy, I've sent it now, did you get it?

You guys silence is deafening,

I need advice and guidelines on how to build my own super pc sort of desktop. It must be highend and of course, affordable.

Anybody that has done it before or has experience on it should help.

Where are you, we need to start something!

It seems they are serving 'stupidity' as part of Nigerian daily meal. How will anybody open his mouth and spew this kind of rubbish? And worse, the educated people ön here supporting him.

Two wrongs will always remain what it is: WRONGS!

Just saw it now. Thanks for your feed back.

But why is the format different? Is this the Nigerian style of writing a script? If it is, I must say I will stick to mine, which is the standard way of writing script. The style has been formatted in such a way that one page equals one minute of shooting time if the page contains a balance of action and dialogue.

I wrote my musings on your 'edit' and add another full episode on the document and sent it to your yahoo account. Let me know what you think, and please, don't attach this new one here.

Thanks once again.

[quote author=musiwa.,. link=topic=777550.msg9313439#msg9313439 date=1318291601]Is good to have a brand, it is at the cost of millions of nigerian lifes.

Is nollywood worth the lifes of million of nigerian in a civil war.

Who is ready to die for this two short, God forbit. Tufepa.

jameca brough regga to the world with a small population.

Britain is just 60 million , but have made more impact to the world than nigeria. It is not the size that matter but the heart.

When we break up nigeria, we would still have a film industry. we would still control it. I know so.

Is like people saying if Nigeria break up that nigeria football is gone. That is nonsense, ask any nigeria. If edo, delta and Yoruba leave Nigeria.  Edo,delta and Yoruba will reach the world cup. even the igbo have enough player to make the fifa world cup.


I am telling you this. ask any nigeria.

The film will still sell the way it sell. it does not affect church. dont forget we can also be separate nation in a union call Nigeria, with separate country.  Uk is a union but are separate.
https://img.modernghana.com/images/content3/240x_mg_x06ev32uup_5645.jpg[/quote]If you muse deeply, you will discover that Nigeria problem has nothing to do with tribe. If we break up, and the present set of leaders continue to rule the divided nation, it is still status quo.

Imagine Tinubu ruling the divided SW, or Atiku ruling the divided North, These guys will still continue bleeping their citizens.

We need to realize that our enemies are not the other tribe BUT the politicians. They act as brothers in the senate house and they keep enjoying 75% of Nigeria resources.

All we need is a bold leader that can expunge the mafia, the sect of people ruling this country directly or indirectly.

Sun of god:
How many convictions to date?

What percentage of the amount stolen since the formation of the EFCC has been recovered?

How much has the EFCC costs - and how much have they recovered?

Had they do nothing, lie that you won't accuse them of doing nothing, ?

Blame the Judicial system for EFCC partly inefficiency. Imagine a situation where EFCC arraign an offender in front of a judge, but the judge grants the offender bail for a silly excuse!