What Nollywood Should Take into Consideration and Become the Best.

Nollywood should by now be chasing Hollywood for the best movie industy in the world. But wait a second somethings need to improve for even to consider any competition with Hollywood. Hollywood has it all, say high definition camera, cast, storyline, and audio-visual output to mention but a few. Nollywood largely considers quantity yet to be the best,quality and quantity should move hand in hand.In our minds therefore we should first rate the quality before jumping onto conclusions about ranks.

Yearly Nollywood releases the numbers but can the movies,compete at international film festivals and stand a decent chance of winning awards? Can they be compared to their counterparts in Hollywood and Bollywood? my answer is no,because many i have watched have weak storylines and a movie is quite predictable from start to finish.Normally story lines are unintelligent and often times not creative enough.As a matter of fact, the writer in me cringes when I watch some films. I feel insulted and embarrassed because a lot of these scripts are obviously poorly researched.

Our movies should tackle educative scripts and try to portray them with purpose and make them have this international touch and view within them.Lets say a movie has a lawyer role in it ,let the lawyer be dressed,act and not fake anything that does not depict the profession.Films are a major form of entertainment, but they are also meant to educate and inform, and sadly a lot of our films are not doing that. If you watch the average Hollywood movie in which the lead character is a doctor, there is a very high probability that you’ll learn two or more things about the practice of doctors in reality.

I once watched a film where almost all the scenes were shot in the same house, and yet the director wanted us, the viewers, to believe that different locations were used. As I said before, even that in itself is not bad provided we see different parts of the house, but no, it was obvious even to the blind that the same house was used because the painting was of same colour, the wood paneling was of the same texture, the curtains were the same, the gate was the same, need I say more.

Not forgetting is the issue of cameras and lighting.For sure some scenes are seen as dark yet it is daytime and onlookers as cameras are being moved around.Camera mode needs to improve.With these issues put into consideration am pretty sure movies produced will be of international standards and thus consider ourselves worthy competitors.