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oga if you watch that film you will notice what planning and set design does for any film. it is a sad story beautifully told. the guys checked what the proper ending of that film would be and not the predictable make believe that most are.

if i ever see its producers and can get them re work it into 52mins for me in less than 12 months it will make main stream channel here. that is the kind of film you don't push hard because it meets every thing you look for in entertainment.  

you get a little bit of wisdom for the 1hr plus you sit watching. the lights and sound was good too. there are loads of channels looking for good materials and we need to progress fast.

on the genre issue, please note that is not the be all and end all of the industry. it didnt even matter until about 5yrs ago and that was only because north america and europe was beginning to have specialist channels. we are not there yet.  lets get the quality right first

i wonder what happened suddenly to all the posters in this thread suddenly.

i think the original poster meant inspiration rather than manufacture.

the blood of Jesus is still the cure to all of this sad world ailments and

calvary road is still the best

how we used to sing

the way of the cross leads home
the way of the cross leads home
it is sweet to know as i onward go
the way of the cross leads home

good afternoon oga seun

i am not into bashing anybody. you personally is an example of what i wil call an inspired mind.  i have seen how you have taken this work you do and continually fine tuned it for diverse people to get interested in it.  that is what most people want for their money and time.

no matter what film or script you give to an unspired/untrained mind it will still come out bad. i don't have anything against anyone. i am only concerned.  i personally only watch  few clips here and there when i have the time to see it on tv and so far the ones i have seen i will not have allowed to be on Tv if i was schedulling. i spent some 3yrs working for a person who has a casting vote for the BAFTA and the OSCARS  so my friend i have seen some films and have seen what makes a film

some years back i saw the enemy of my soul in nigeria. i personally asked a broadcaster here to make sure he gets the film and show it as many times as a public service to his viewer and i am glad to tell you he did it. my desire is to see an industry we can help open doors for  not criticize.

happy new year to you

there is more than enough money within nigeria to fund any film. what is lacking is the infrasture and controls. for instance you ask all these one man band to form  an alliance that would create say for the sake argument 10 production houses that would be a start.  get different people to begin to design the sets and others do the casting and you immediately put in place a means of pulling together the resources for great movies.

someone from working title tv here being refused visa for some work in nigeria because they said they can't gaurantee his security.  all he wanted to do was see if he can network with some people to set up some agency that will help the industry.  by the way he is a nigerian british passport holder not even oyinbo.

the boys doing most of the camera's are good and there good actors  but the scripts and actors turnover are poor.  again that is because of money. most production here dont pay actors up front. you only need about 10- 25% of your budget as cashflow to do a great film if your script and work is right. a good production will always sell itself

you loose more money rushing lop-sided half backed films into the market. ideas take time to mature. there are many problems with nigerian films. they don't get treated after filming.  it is kind of what you see is what you get approach to production.  if you over expose at filming you don't go back to editing to correct the lighting.  if you underexpose well the buyers/viewers will not notice.  sorry gov these days you just can't get any rubbish onto dvds and hope to make money from it in the international market.  nigerians will soon run out of cash buying these trash

my sister told me she see these films being sold by the indians here in england cheaply. why do you think that is? i know not every movie house have the money to do big work  but all these one man band telling same old story about people rituals and torturing women will not help us.

film productions are always collaboration of many businesses and entities. if i came up with my stories as a writter a different producer can easily see the folly or strenght of the scripts.  by the time casting directors and actors who know what they are doing comes in the whole work get richer and better. at  production stage most of its strenghts and weaknesses have been checked and crossed checked. i don't even know if these guys do audience research. 

you need to know there are almost about 40% - 60% that are commissioned and recored that never see the light of day.  these one man bands are hungry people and hungry people don't do good work generally. 

we need a healthier robust industry that will help the nations image.  my ex-boss was a director of the UK film council and i know for a fact that loads of films that will not get financial backing if they are going to potray the gov or the english in a bad light.

films are about propaganda first and foremost.  if it entertains goodluck but it is about selling an idea and impressions of whatever want to be sold.  i don't know if there are people there regulating these people and stopping them from getting these trash on air.

when you see products being deliberately placed in films watch their sales rocket.  when you see places being deliberately visited or mentioned, watch the tourist figures to these places.  there are location scouts doing nicely as a full time work making killing selling some God forsaken towns in north america and europe.  why can't we do the same  instead of these living room scenes for a whole 2 hrs movies.

the problem is that of short sightedness. one man can only tell a story to his friends and family. when you are attmpting to get a wider audience, you should begin to branch out and call others in.  
having worked with award winning producers like steve dawdry of the billy elliot fame and host of others i see that we are not even 1 foot into what will branch out into the international market.

a typical movie that you edit into maximum 2 hours takes about 9months to 18 months to make here before you even start thinking of cinemas and DVD's i heard it is almost 1 - 2 weeks in nigeria.  with one writter, producer and maybe executive producer.  and worst part is you get nigeria films in parts 1,2 and even 3 in less than 6 months.

what the guys are into is quick money and giving nigeria a very bad image.  here in england the BBC an channel 4 both public service TV screens films from the senegal and the gambia even subtitling them because of the french they speak and i wonder why we cant get anything out of Nigeria.

we have the remi adefarasins, david ogunde and other award winning nigerian cinematographers that can be easily available to point these people in the right direction if they want to learn how the industry can move forward.  there is more to screenplays and doing films than owning a camera and a few miguided people.

what they dont realise is that people like film council stores these films in their archives for posterity and judgement on how not make a film. i saw better acting in my secondary school days than some of these movies show

i dont know who sang that melodious song "why do fools fall in love?" love is a great thing but foolishness is another matter.

a friend arranged ticket and visa for a girl friend to visit him. we know she left lagos in september but her plane is yet to land in heathrow 3 months later. we told him he was being silly but he was born in the day so doesn't have to scrutinize most things very well as those of us born in the night.

foolishness is not a virtue.

happy new year everyone

girls can be very dangerous

. wao coming from a lady!!!!

i wonder what you ladies would say if you heard a man making the above the statement. i agree with what you guys are saying though.

what we are saying is the moment you start going out with someone, get rid of all your friends of the same sex to make an insecure person feel secure. i wish there was a pill for jealousy and insecurity.

i have friends who are like sisters to me. we have come along some 15 -30yrs. personally, i don't make friends easily and i adore the few the good Lord have placed in my life. we have managed to avoid sleeping together all these years. i wont give them up for anything.

hope you guys find the people you are looking for

happy new year everyone

Many thanks ma'am. i didn't say 50,000' was OK infact i thought it was strange. that has always been our preferred route. i will tell the Pa here to give me a mail box for cv's in the new year.

Happy new year everyone

@lawyer

sorry to burst you ego. failing to plan is planning to fail. By God's grace i will be telling you in June that i have done what i set to do this 2008.

i met all my targets by july this year so i look forward to another blessed year

happy new year everyone and may all your dreams and Godly desires come true for you in Christ name.

check this out.

can someone please help me with employment agencies details for PA/Secretaries. we want someone based in lagos.
did i hear someone say 50,000 naira is a good pay? can i ask for what a very good PA should be paid for a hard days job.?

many thanks and have a good new year everyone.

that is what is missing in many lives. no prayer no belief in the hand of providence to provide a life partner so to every skirt and trousers in town they pursue. how many are sorrowful today because of the wrong choice. the heart is deceitful.

relationship is too important to be left to trial and luck and all these emotional yoyo's. i know waiting is not easy but is all the pain of distressed and failed relationships worth it?

i read years ago a nigerian preacher say marriage can make or mar you for life. that was enough warning and i am so glad i heard that when i heard it.

but again we have to know there are brilliant forces that interested in making men miserable and what a better way of doing it than placing them in wrong relationships so as to unstable their great destiny.

life and your future is safer in God's hand than the hand of schemers wanting to marry for marrying sake

marry
travel less
sleep more

why can't men keep female friends? i have more female friends than i have men. they are better friends than any man. more matured and wiser. majority of my friends are happily married or in long term relationship. because of our work we do we may not see for months but when we do we are all great together.

i have had the opposite of your problem with 2 guys. they had nothing to fear but people being good people especially if you fertile imagination. one of them was always threatening me to leave his girl friend alone. they have been married 8yrs now and he is a very good friend too i can report. the other guy was extremely jealous and insecure. he lost a very good girl who i am glad is happily married to my cousin today.

fear and suspicion are tormenting spirits. use the time and energy you spend in wondering what if and what is to do something that will make him never to live without you. become a woman a guy cannot live without. someone said about 90% of what we fear are not real.

babasin.
patriotic Nigerians don't talk like that. patriotic Nigerians don't see anything wrong in the environment
my brother you love Nigeria more the thieves waiting for their turn to start their looting. i used that Ibadan road recently on my way to ilesha and was quite shocked because having used Benin- Lagos, Abuja- Benin they are almost all the same. which roads are good in Nigeria?

Benin -Lagos road was so bad they had to go through another road i used almost 30yrs ago to school for about 5yrs guess what it was better then than it is now.

the fans of these apology for human beings that hijacked Nigeria wants everyone to rejoice their masters are not charging for the air you breathe yet. what have Nigerian done to deserve these people?

Nigeriaone are you saying that the north must get their light sorted out before the rest of Nigeria get considered? i hope you didn't say that.

i will post details of the solar panels in january when i go back to work. i have all the info/ correspondence on it in my work mailbox thankfully, i am not back until 7th.

i think i should start the business in Nigeria. i thought it wont work properly during the raining seasons but they said it coped well even when it rained almost 3 days non stop

and where do most people need basic electricity in Nigeria kind sir? little light is better than darkness i think

8 and 3 big living rooms only 4 adults live there 24/7 though. my dad gives his neighbour light in the evening if nepa goes off. i understand he does this free of charge. personally i think it is under utilized but we need it a long time.

the best thing is to call them and tell them what you need it for and they will give you what they think will suite your purpose. hope this help

merry Christmas everyone. and please remember the poor and needy in your midst.
hope you get the blessings of the holy Son of God this Christmas.

and for those of who you with your family use the period to show them how much you care and love them.

merry Christmas nairaland.

love you all

SOLAR PANELS

it is so easy to get. i saw it being used in kenya on a documentary here and went on the net to search. however, this is the solar panel sellers link i got mine from. they are very good. when my brother wakes up, i will ask him where he got his own from in Houston they are cheaper, smaller and sleeker than mine.

a guy in church here bought a very small one for about £40 for the mum in ibillo somewhere in edo state that should be if they have not created another state he told me it working fine. i must add that you buy some stoppers and switches which are cheap. you will also need a car battery to start it. you can borrow that from anyone. according to him he said that powers 2 rooms successfully. that was sold by a the daily mail newspapers here in the UK last year. i have the link to that in some mail when i get it i will post

http://www.dmsolar.com/solar-panels.html

now please hear me well. when you talk to them don't mention the word Nigeria first. let me explain.

pay them tell them it is for import and they will reduce the price IE less VAT. which you can use for FEDEX delivery.

they will deliver to Nigeria if you pay for it but don't let that be your first word. they say they get loads of enquiries and emails from Nigeria but people don't follow up.

i know sellers here in the UK too but they are very expensive it is like what you get in us for $1000 they sell £1000 that was why i went for the America ones plus they were delivered within a week to Benin which was not bad. my brother's own was within a week too from another company. don't be afraid they wont eat your money. 6 of my friends have bought so far from them and they have delivered without fail.

good news is that it has been working for a year now and i think it has 15yrs guarantee too. if you have the money, it is money well spent. no more generator noise and the other wahala that goes with it. this is exactly how ours are installed nobody even see it just flat on the roof like you see in this photo. goodluck

many thanks almondjoy. this is what is wrong with the Nigeria of today. people do not know the difference between rights and responsibilities. the attitude is not me gov.

life is about what you give and take but we seems to be raising up a self centered I,Me & Myself generation taking and consuming everything in sight generation. what is wrong with washing clothes for others let alone your own wife and mother of your children? not all homes in north America and Europe have washing machines they manage to survive it is not about washing machines it is about a perverted and twisted mind some people have that will never help no one not even God forbid the person having the misfortune of marrying them.

i come to Nigeria now and again. last year, i had the privilege of staying there for 2 months in one stretch. i was very careful not to say anything to most people for fear of being accused of looking down but i usually questioned my dad and some uncles about some attitudes of the young people i was observing i came out refreshed that it was not just me thinking there is something wrong and obscene in the environment.

there is a kind of non charllant attitude we have that needs to be checked. fair enough there are more cars and houses but there happiness in the environment?. anyway i got this article from a blog today and it is so true. anyway you guys read and let me see what you think

[b]BLACK PEOPLE, PLEASE, READ & HEED. POIGNANT.

The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The
truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards
making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that
Blacks don't read.

Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on.

Please Note:

For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading
this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't
hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote
it.
Dee Lee, CFP Harvard Financial Educators

Dee Lee

THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from the
Blacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the current
methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED,
and SELFISHNESS.

Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great t man once
said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in
a book." We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the
opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their
fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books
readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to
mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to
reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along),
but few read consistently, if at all.

GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the
abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal.
Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their
450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).

Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture
we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it.
Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They
continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.

They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a
business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And
they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them
"Status" or that they have achieved their Dream.

They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty
because their greed holds them back from collectively making better
communities.

With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often
broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to
see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even
jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the
fools spend m ore with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits
from our businesses that we market to them.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the
major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois
said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented
Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are
segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success.
However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read
that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented
Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has
created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people
or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we
have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together
on any project or endeavour of substance. When they do get tog ether,
their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal Their
so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name
without making any real change in their community.

They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels,
and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best
speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness?
They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)

They do not understand that they are no better than each other because
of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but
one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the
control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.


Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to re ad,
continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping"
t heir communities b y paying dues to organizations which do little other
than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry
about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!

(Prove them wrong. Please pass this , Reading it, )

Nigeriaone sorry to bother you one more time.
Nigeria don't have power problem. we have human resources and people problem. last year i was in Nigeria for my mum's funeral immediately the canopies went up and the musicians started testing their music equipment, the lights went off. i was called 5 mins later to settle a man from the authourity. i asked him what he thought we should do to the generators working he asked how many days we were holding the funeral. tell me it was the power station that was not working. it is always the people.

have you heard of solar energy sir? why don't we use it? i only took 2 £400 panels home last Christmas and my people have 24hrs power supply now. why can't that be repeated nation wide by the silly government. God gave us enough sun and thank God Nigeria is not NY the whole country would have died during the winter months not to talk o summer. give nigeria even 700,000 MW of power the people will still not work it out smoothly.

on your abuja schools and ondo schools. what is wrong with all those lovely millionaires you have there building the schools as part of their give back to the society they live in and some of them robbed.

i went to a primary school i went to years ago for a filming and was so shocked that we could't record anything because it was the most disgusting thing i have ever set my eyes on. i can't believe nigerians treat kids like that.

don't tell me there is no money in ondo or edo where i went to school. don't tell me there are no cements and tools to give these kids a better environment. it is the people who are misguided. the society has wrong priority. the money they waste doing those parties can easily be used to do these things for the betterment of the society.

why can some people gather together and use their bricklaying skills to work on those walls and some carpenters do the windows?

it is not about technology or anything like that. we have a great human resources wahala.

i know this is a tired and worn out issue now but i just want to add this for posterity. some of you are in cloud coo coo land about life generally - wishing for a life so great the whole will be at your feet. dream on guys. if wishes were horses the lovely English people say.

recently i was discussing a with a friend i have always known to be a very loyal Nigerian living in Europe. he said something that shocked me IE that if he died while in Nigeria he would not like to be buried in the soil of the country. i was very shocked. some weeks later i discussed the matter with him and discovered how scared he was about how morally bankrupt the people are becoming. some of you guys on this thread are just making his point.

some people favourite stars, celebrity or whatever they are called back there are living morally bankrupt lives it does not bother you guys. people are being callous, deceitful and manipulative, it does not bother you guys. is there anything that bother you people these days apart from money and home videos that Nigeria will live to regret. the sad part of it is that many of you claim to be religious and we are not going the Church or Godly path for now because almost 100% of you are religious in one form or the order.


a family has lost their son who happened to marry your "favourite celebrity" do you people care? of course not. she doesn't need to mourn because life has to go on & "money" has to be made. John smith an Australian preacher asked is the money you make worth the prize you pay? Jaynie is only telling it as she other side saw it but being nigerians you don't do enemies nicely you kill them.
you guys should learn how to argue and oppose with decency. what if jaynie was telling the truth? would that matter to some of you? i don't know the girl i don't know what is true or not true but you don't argue to defend people just because they are stars.

the lady has asked a simple question that you guys had amnesia about. how many of you guys would like to see your wives fooling around with guys when you have not even started rotting in your graves? guys, put yourselves in this family position

this is not a new thing in Nigeria i know just that this is being played out in the media. you guys are not afraid to sleep with someone's girlfriend let alone wives. that is what it boils down to.

nobody remembers that this beautiful manipulative girl is an Asaba girl well "schooled" in Benin. you all deserve the lives you lead with all the naive attitudes you have to life.

celebrity culture is going to ruin Nigeria as it has the part of the west that allowed it. trust me i used to work for UIP, dream works and double negative. for the uninitiated they are film distributors and studios all they care for is the figures of bums in cinemas and DVD's they shift. the seedier the society the better for them Nigeria we are watching

even if they are giving $1 i personally pray they don't extend it to Nigeria because knowing our people they will just soil our name more in the international scene. i watched a documentary on kiva in one of the US channel and saw even poor people in Latin America and Kenya( i think but i am sure it is Kenya because it was October i watched the programme) repaying their loans and thought God how can we become like this?

earlier this year too while back here i saw another on Oprah and it was a brilliant concept but it will never work in Nigeria. i remember the NDE loans of the 80S very well how it was seriously abused.

now i know some will post rubbish about this but i care more for the corporate name of Nigeria than small minded people. some of us are tired of the stupidity some of our people do.we have tolerance for fraud and thieving that i think is obscene

Nigeriaone, i bet you are OBJ's son or Nigeria's enemy. it didn't occur to you that most or should i say "many" of those scammers you say are not native American's by birth. that is not to say there are no "citizens" doing it but the numbers are very few because the stiff penalties and jail terms stop people doing these things. go work out the maths and note i said "many".

here in the UK most of the people who think nothing of swindling the state are mostly first or second generation British i.e immigrants or sons and daughters of immigrants.

as a born citizen you almost have little or no chance of using false names or different aliases to run these scams. years ago when i came here you didn't need to produce any document to show who you are but thanks to our people who have no qualms about having five names in the system things have changed and that is not counting the outright thieves.

i think we need a re-education or programming that you don't need to own everything. our culture celebrates and tolerate thieves too much

apart from upside and downside business in marriage, where is love as a motive for a relationship in our lifestyle? i was discussing with one of my siblings when i was in Nigeria recently and was quite shocked to hear her opinions about marriage being what you can do for me more than anything else

it is for real. but for fear of being caught many will like to do same sadly. nigeria is a wonderful place. the sad thing is that these idiots will take this money home and their wives and girl friends will gladly use it knowing where it came from and praying they use the money for profitable business. you see why there is great instability in the environment

our nitel didn't do anything for us. these guys have come to make life better. i know how difficult it used to be to organise people into the place you can call them and nitel tell you the number does not exist. please be patient with these guys and lets not push nigeria into a monopoly again

you will be amazed how many Nigerian women and some female students will have that level of money. dont ask me where i think they got it from because that is another matter for the strong minds

this is all that is wrong with our lovely country. i cant believe some people actually went out to cast their votes for obasanjo. i don't know if this is true or not a journalist friend once told me just before obasanjo came to power again that a gentleman had looked at him in the eyes and asked him " general what did you forget in office the last time you want to go pick up there" his (OBJ) answer was contracts and money.

9 years later he has been proved right. the idiot is a jerk and i read the other day he said he can be accused of being stubborn but not a thief. south Africa is about to plant another thief in power you see why the Africa man will be cousins to poverty and hardship for a long time to come

merry Christmas everyone