https://youtu.be/KzCMSVspah4

Filming Tips :

Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend? I am so sorry for the delay, it was due to Nigeria peculiar mess.

The video is the first Trailer cut of Prime Suspect as announced last week.

A conference was held in Los Angeles not too long, it was majorly for movie editors all over the world. Some questions were raised during the interviews of some of the participants. Like, what software do you like using most? What is the greatest challenge you usually face as an editor?

I was impressed and encouraged by the answer provided by almost all of them. The major challenge they have is how to cut down the contents they have meaningfully without leaving out any important thing. Based on my observation, foreign stories are often more than they need in order to make it tight and so nice without dull moments.

Often times, our stories maybe sincerely 30 to 40 minutes content which we then stretch and make it 2 hours film, some group of people will even make their own part one and two. Then you will see such space being filled with meaningless elongation, then you need to watch it with your remote control, then you start fast forwarding. I have seen two hours movies in 5 minutes before. I know you must have seen such movies both secular and gospel films.

Some of those things I know as the reason for this are lack of exposure, laziness, ignorance and pride.

Exposure: If you are so restricted by the doctrines of your church and your pastor, you may not reason deeper before you write. If you are not watching the news, going to other people's programs it will affect your world view which will in turn affect your reasoning.

Laziness : If you are too lazy to read you maybe very shallow. Read read and keep reading. Read novels, newspapers, writeups, and different literatures that can help you soar higher in knowledge. If you read other people's opinion in their books you will learn one or two things which will energize you, and encourage you to reach deeper. The Fire Dancer was started like a joke, I wanted to show us what horror story should feel like, after the first one, I made some research and decided to add a pending story I have for some years now, then it started getting bigger and better. Then I started making research online on the theme, I went on YouTube and Foreign TV stations for the life of the celebrities and their vanities. I read literatures in line with my theme and that enlarged the story in my heart through the inspiration from the holy Spirit of God.

IGNORANCE : Under the law, ignorance is not an excuse. Some people produce movies believing that their stories are much more powerful than Agbara Nla, Emi Fun Emi and The Story of My Life in their mind. When it is out and others see it, then they will face the reality that they have no story to tell. Get wisdom, in all thy gettings get understanding.

PRIDE: This goes before a fall. When you hear that someone made a serial film and he is known for it then you decide to produce yours, you then patch some things together which shouldn't be more than one hour story, and made it 6 hours, this is not right. It is not a must to write your own movie, you can produce other people's story.

The Fire Dancer story continues later tomorrow in another post.

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Till next week Monday when I will be coming your way again, keep your God-given dreams alive and remain blessed.