Africa Day 2021: Celebrating movie industry’s growth
Published 25 May 2021
Africa Day is an official day set aside by the African Union to mark African Unity. The day, which falls on May 25 annually, is an opportunity to appreciate and celebrate the continent’s diverse history and heritage while acknowledging its cultural and economic potential.
As the theme of this year’s celebration is “Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want
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Nollywood
Nigeria’s movie industry is popularly known as Nollywood, and according to the 2021 Statista report, the industry represents the most valuable indigenous cinematography production in the West African region.
“When it doesn’t come out right, they blame the editors.”
Chuks Oteke had had enough of the complaints about his work. In 2012, he set up his video production studio where he provided visual effects and video editing services, but every now and then he received complaints from clients who were dissatisfied with his work. To them, Oteke was the problem but to him, the problem was the raw video cuts he got from his clients.
The shots taken on set didn’t really tell the story and the clients believed that any shortcoming could be fixed in post-production.
When he couldn’t take it anymore he decided to look into why the shots were poor. He took on different camera operator jobs on different video shoot sets. At the end of his research, he came to the conclusion that the camera operators didn’t have the right tools to get the right shots.