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Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend? I had a very busy one. We shot music videos for a gospel artist called kay Wonder , the rain was so much on the first day but the music also has to do with flood gate of heaven, it was supposed to be an exterior shoot so we just used our underwater cage and shot it in the rain. I appreciate all my guys who took the courage to work in the rain with me. May God bless you all.

Last week I explained vector scope and waveform out of the four types of scopes. This week I will dwell a little more on vectorscope before moving to the rest because someone asked me a question off Facebook on this topic.

Vector scope is that image in a circle shape, when the information on it is centralized, most likely your picture is well white balanced. Now that does not mean your picture is not balance if the info appear otherwise. What you are seeing on your screen really matters, because that is what determines the interpretation. Some professional cameras have scopes, this can help you to choose the right temperature on set. Waveform can be used to calculate the amount of light on your set, while RGB parade and histogram will show you the true colours you have on set, whether it is well balanced or tilts towards red, green or blue.

If there is a red curtain at the background and the cast on set is wearing blue shirt for good contrast, then red and blue channel will have more information than the green channel. All these could have been better explained in videos but in an environment where there are generator noises everywhere, you can't try such. There has been times when we had to go and meet people to help us switch off their generator for two hours in order for us to quickly shoot a scene, may God help nigeria.

Histogram is pretty much the same as RGB parade, you can use it to check your colour whether it is correct or not, you need to practice over and again to become familiar with these great tools.

Colour treatment according to my own definition can be broken to Colour balancing and colour grading. Colour balance simply means to balance the colour red green and blue.

Colour grading means giving your picture a look, creating the mood, using the tools to direct the viewers attention to what you want them to see. If you are not really sure of yourself,  it is better not to treat the picture than to do colour destruction in the name of colour grading, believe me, I have made such mistake before. We continue from here next week.

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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.

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Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend? I really appreciate everyone who called, sent texts or messages through social media, the gifts, the prayers and the love on my birthday 9/9. May God bless you real good. I felt loved and appreciated. People will celebrate your greatness in Jesus name. Amen.

I have finally finished the fire dancer story, I shortened some things to make it end on time. It is going to be a very big project which will be shot in United States if God wills. It will be written comprehensively as a novel which will be published if God wills before Easter next year tentatively. If I feel led to start another story I may start later but nothing like that for now.

The pictures below comprise a scope (waveform and vector scope), I, Me and Myself. The first two was treated with Adobe raw while the last one was not treated at all. These are raw files from a movie produced by Kehinde Ajetunmobi in United States titled "Closed Chapter", watch out for the trailer next week. There is this other movie titled The Strong Room where the prof Doyin Hassan danced to Bata, the two trailers are coming this weekend.

Color grading starts from the ability to study and understand the scopes, that was not where I started my learning and I messed up. You need to understand those scopes because they interpret the picture you are about to work on. There are four different types of scopes and I have mentioned two, the other two are  RGB parade and histogram.

Waveform can be of help when you want to interpret highlights, shadows and midtones. Waveform is waveform irrespective of whatever application. The upper part of the waveform shows you the highlight, the midtone is the middle while the lower part determines the shadow. The best way to understand it is for you to picture that waveform on your video, the rectangular shape represent the rectangular shape of your video. If the upper part contains more information beyond the topmost line then you have a bad picture, it is blown out, or there is a part of the picture that is too bright. If this occurs, and you are lucky you shot raw, just bring it back in post by reducing the exposure but if not raw then you can bring down your gain a little. If the middle has more information, then that is okay, if the information on the lower part goes beyond the last line then there is a part of your image that is too dark.

The image you are working on and what you intend to achieve with it is very important. You can switch the waveform to give you color or monochrome. If you look at this waveform, it does have enough information on the midtone but lesser on the highlight and shadow. You may have an image that requires the waveform to have info on the shadow part alone, this is not absolutely wrong, because it depends on your picture and your intention.

Vector scope shows us the amount of saturation on the picture, it shows you what part of the image is well saturated, what color is more saturated than the rest. This circle on the right side has magenta, cyan, blue, yelow, red, green. Again this also depends on what picture you are working on. Alomst all editing software has what we call color wheel for color correction. This color wheel is a replica of  vector scope, if you have more info in between the magenta and red, you can use the color wheel of gamma, pull it towards the opposite direction which is blue and cyan in this case, then you will see the changes immediately.

I treated those two pictures, the last one was not like I have said earlier. This is from the same shot but I brought out different looks from them, that's one of those things you can do with color grading. You can use any software to color grade so long as it has color scopes to monitor what you are doing. You also need to have a well calibrated monitor, otherwise you will finish the job before you discover that you have spoilt it.

I will continue from here next week. Happy holidays to Nigerians and my people in the Islamic dominated parliament countries, happy working day to my people in the freer world.

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Tina fell in love with an actor, his name is Ryan he is a white man and good looking. He has featured as the main actor in more than eight Hollywood blockbusters and he as wealthy as Tina. Tina considered talking to Joanne about her doppelganger and the cult she is involved in but restricted herself so she does not freak out.

Tina traveled to Hawaii to perform, after the performance her doppelganger told her she loved Ryan and that she wouldn’t have approved the relationship had it been Ryan is not in the brotherhood. Tina and her doppelganger now talks freely without any fear on her part.
Tina was shocked when Ryan who was in L.A. called to ask her how she managed to get to Hawaiian Islands so fast and ready for the show after the fun they had overnight. She said “what fun are you talking about? Then her doppelganger winked at her and whispered “that was me, I told you I like him”, furiously she hung up. You mean you slept with my guy? She demanded. But that’s not the first time, why are you angry with me? She replied. I feel like I should get a gun and shoot you right now. Go ahead she said nonchalantly. Tina rushed out to get a gun from one of her bodyguards, she rushed back in with rage, shot three bullets within five seconds, the only bullet that hit the target hit her on her right leg, Tina instantly dropped the gun because she was the one bleeding at the exact spot the bullet hit on her doppelganger.

Her doppelganger felt bad for hurting herself. Tina why don’t you understand that I am you, I kissed Ryan the first time you kissed him, do and even when I visited him yesternight, I’m certain you must have enjoyed the sensation also. Walking up to her gently with admiration, let me heal your wound. I was only trying to help, I know you desired to be with him yesterday and I decided to give it to you in proxy. We are one already my dear, she touched her feet and the injury disappeared. Tina’s bodyguards could hear voices but they were now accustomed to Tina talking herself. The conversation continued, I own your body now, we are one, we kiss whoever you kiss and on and on, but when you eventually get married and pregnant, I won’t carry the pregnancy with you girlfriend; she started laughing.

10 years later, Remy was about to be released, his mum and teenage daughter came to take him home, he had been seriously battered but glowing with grace. They left the prison and got home but his house had been sold to someone else. He wept profusely as they left for his parents’ place, he went to church with his mum and daughter and he climbed the pulpit to testify in the presence of the Lord. He started his testimony by explaining how he got initiated, how satanic agents are now everywhere, how the world governing bodies have been working for satan.

Remy got back home and called Tina who was surprised to hear his voice. He encouraged her to leave the cult before it will be too late. Tina then asked him how he had been living his life. He gave a quick run of all that had befallen him, Tina told him she was not ready for the humiliation and poverty yet, she said she will reconsider his suggestion as soon as she clocks sixty. Remy tried to convince her but her doppelganger showed up, collected the phone from her and hung up. Tina had two girls and she was happy with Ryan who had become Hollywood’s highest paid actor.

• After dropping the phone Remy was shocked to see his teenage daughter hanging on the ceiling suspended in the air and screaming, as Remy opened his mouth to call on the name of the Lord, a creature in the form of a snake appeared,  hit him and knocked him down. His mother rushed in and went into tongues, the creature’s head multiplied to three with fire coming out of her mouths, mama continued in tongues. Remy rose up in power,  he started declaring the scriptures and his right as a child of God, the girl dropped down to the bed and also screamed the name of the Lord, then the creature’s heads started to wither like dead leaves - one after the other, it started burning till it vanished but the whole room was in a mess. The family came together to bless the name of God.

Three weeks later, Tina was in the car with her driver when a truck ran the red light and hit her car, she died in the car, her soul came out of her body, she watched as the ambulance took her body away, her doppelganger came out clapping and mocking her. Why are you laughing? Is this funny to you, Tina asked. The doppelganger slapped her right there in the public and she flew and landed distance away, I have finished my  task over your life she said mockingly. Then she turned and became big giant ugly beast, Tina wanted to run away from her but a magnetic force was pulling her towards the beast, the beast took her by her right heels with its two big fingers, they started descending down into a huge dark hole, it stunk with a horrible smell, as they were descending the beast continued mocking, “I am sure this place looks familiar to you but this time, it’s forever, because it’s not a dream, this is for ever and ever” . Tina didn’t know what to think, she was still falling in the hand of this beast whom she had thought to be her friend.

They finally landed in hell, the place sure looked and smell familiar. The beast threw her into the midst of snakes. The beast screamed, you need some introductions; his voice echoed,  there are lots of departments here, I anointed you as the fire dancer to influence the whole world, for them to worship me whenever we come on stage.

The snake started biting her without anyone to help, she started screaming, there was so much noise everywhere, she couldn’t shed tears but she was crying. Another struck her neck, the darkness was very thick she could feel it like a dirty thick blanket. The beast came to take her on a trip, she could barely stand as a result sores on her feet yet the beast kept dragging her along without looking at her face. There are lots of disasters that call themselves “stars, celebrities” here, some of them have been here for more than two thousand years, by the way, your mother is also here, she curses you everyday for sending her here early, never the less, you are here now, you are my fire dancer, all the dancing steps I taught you have been made known all over the world, you have fulfilled your destiny. She saw pastors, Tele evangelists, leaders of nations before she eventually got to her station where she started dancing in the fire involuntarily and with so much pain. There were few short demons around with hooks and forks, they continuously pierced her as she continued to dance in the fire for demons’ pleasures.

Thanks for your time my people. Hell is real, please don’t get there before you believe,  be on the safer side, on the side of the Lord.

 Remember, it is better to die chasing God and standing for Christ than to reign with the devil!
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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.

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Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend? I love this great week of my birthday which is full of activities.  I am glad to tell you that I share thesame day with some great men like Shola Mike Agboola and Kunle Adepoju, check them out, they are wonderful people. Today is not my birthday, it's on power night's day, so please don't let me start receiving birthday calls and messages from today but you can send me chickens. Drama ministers power night is coming up this Friday at Jogor center ibadan, oyo state nigeria. If you are outside the country you Can watch it online through Paul-Esupofo Oriade.

The video clip below is just a short clip I asked one of my people to put together. Inside that clip you can see that the last one was different because I showed you the raw version likewise the treated one. Today,  I will like to share the importance of color grading which I will love to dwell on for a while. I was introduced to color grading basics some years back when Soji Ogunnaike was treating kunle Afolayan's film titled figurine. Then I saw this my boss using a software called color to painting the picture to interpret the story in a beautiful way. I saw how he enhanced the smoke coming out of the cigarette and creating mask to relight the set. I was impressed and I opened up my mind to grab more.

Color grading is now popular in Nigeria music videos and movies. Lots of editors are now colorists even some who do not know what it means though there are great people with great brains in nigeria film industry. Despite our limitations with electricity and evil politicians we are still trying. I saw a show reel of a Nigerian animator and I was impressed, if such a guy had been in a better situation than the one we are since independence he would have become a great name in the media world. I respect Nigerians, we can endure lots of things. Economy is in recession officially and our leaders salaries are not affected at all, rather, banks and insurance companies slashed workers salary, minimum wage is 18,000 naira and a bag of rice is around the same price but instead of this wicked leaders to stop borrowing money to pay their own salaries and wicked allowances they keep inflicting more pain on our economy. Sorry I got carried away by my feelings as a patriot. I know millions of Nigerians are also feeling thesame but not knowing what to do, action group of Nigeria and other activists are also silent, I just don't understand what's going on.

Color grading is good, if done by a professional who knows his tools. However, there are lots of errors being done in the name of colour grading. I will teach it in my own little way, I will try to explain how you can do it even if you are not using my type of software which is davinci resolve. Fire dancer will be brought to an end tomorrow, so it's really going to be long. After which it will go to the person who will turn it to a novel though the guy will be given more details than what you have read.

Feel free to share, if you have missed any of my past post please visit Christian film institute page and like our page or visit xtianmovie.blogspot.com

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