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There are certain steps a Nollywood Script-writer needs to take in order to sell his Nollywood movie scripts. Click here to get a concise information e book where a Nollywood insider will help you arrange your script and make it ready for submission and sale to Nollywood producers

The first step is to write a;

Script review and synopsis
Write a brief review and synopsis of the script. The review will tell the producer what to expect when he reads the script. Producers don't have time to read scripts. You only need to compel them to read it. It's the duty of Nollywood insiders to help you out. Just get the concise information e book. A Nollywood insider will help you get the script ready. Just click here to get it.

Literally, some other points you need to take note of as a Nollywood script writer are below. But to make things easier for you, just get this concise information e book. It's from a Nollywood insider to help you arrange your script to get it ready for submission

Continuing with the brief points you might need to take note of;

You need to have a body of work

One screenplay alone may not be enough to break into nollywood. Write more. Write up to three, four, five or more. Explore the entire 'soft' genres. It may be uneasy and burdensome, but you have to try.

You need to become a real script writer

What I mean here is that you need to be in script-writing. You need to develop the passion for it. Script-writing needs to be beyond your hobby. Just be determined to make it your source of living.
Screenplay has a lot of components and elements. A real script writer doesn't just write scripts he also studies explicitly those components and elements of screenplay. He goes to the extent of teaching others.
You need to take your time in writing your screenplays. You need to also give in huge effort.

Create a channel

Create an outlet. Every business or talent needs to be exported or advertised for consumers or audiences to know about it. Just try and create awareness. You can use social media. You can use your facebook page or you can create a weblog; and in it, you can post regularly your experiences in script writing. You can write short screenplays, post them on the blog and then invite your friends to read them. As you keep on building your weblog, people will see you as someone very busy and passionate with script-writing. A Nollywood film maker may even read all those posts by chance, and may eventually mail you.
Note: while doing all these, make sure you promote your work first and not your name. Promoting your name first may mean you are showing off. Just be humble. Nollywood film makers love humble clients. Your audience will also like what you do if you are humble.
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Go beyond script writing

Study how to rewrite a screenplay. Learn film making. Learn how to teach others. Be a master of screenplay.
Have you ever wondered why only one person in some of the Nollywood movies you have watched did almost all the job? He is the story creator, the writer of the screenplay, the creator of the cast, the producer and the director.
You may call him 'Jack of all trade'. But no; he is not! This person in question went beyond script-writing. He learnt many other things about film-making. This is the kind of movie business we have in nollywood.
An executive producer may not want too much people to get involved in making his film. When too much people get involved, too much money would be spent. As a result, he opts for someone who knows it all.
Try and know it all if possible. You can develop a story, write, re write, do the casting, budget, schedule, direct and produce it. This will increase your chances of selling you screenplays in Nollywood. It will also help you to be in Nollywood full time. You will now become an executive (smiles warmly).

Be determined to become an independent film maker

Just try and believe you are going to produce your screenplays into movies yourself. This kind of belief would help drive your urge to learn the other things in film-making. It will help you to be focused.
This is Nigeria for you. Everybody claims to be a film writer. It will be hard for you to convince a producer or film maker to buy your script when he can just scribble one for himself.

Attend shows

Yes, just try and attend film shows, festivals, seminars, premier and workshops. At these shows, you can proudly tell people you are script-writer. Get into interview sections. Identify yourself as a good script-writer. Go ahead and mention your outlets like your weblog, website, facebook page. Intimate people your expertise in script-writing and perhaps film making. Through all these, you may shine one day. A film-maker may get interested in you.

Get contacts of people whose jobs are in one way or the other related to film making

Follow them on social media. Surround yourself with these people. One day you may get vital information from them. This information may help you sell your screenplay; or it may make you excel in Nollywood.

Surround yourself with script writing and film making websites, books, journals, magazines, bulletins and many others

Make script writing be in your life!

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Nollywood Film-makers: Tips for Nollywood stake holders to get our Nollywood movies right.

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We need to have our audience in mind more than our pockets.

When your aim of making your movie is to enrich your pocket, then you may lose focus on the most crucial aim of a movie which is to enrich the minds of the audience. Our audience is the reason for our movies, and when you make your movie for your audience, your audience will make the money for your
pocket. Audience first! Satisfy your audience first and see them sing the name of your movie
like a song. You'll also see them order for the copies as if they were on a shopping spree. The direct consumers of your movies are your audience and not your pockets. The consumption by the audience will put the money in your pockets.
Audiences are always right, and whatever destructive criticisms they make about your movie, they are right. It's true you can never satisfy everybody, but then you can block all chances of destructive criticisms by producing a movie born out of 'brainstorm'.

We always need to be inspired.

Be inspired to make a movie. Let the desire to make a movie come truly and purposefully from deep down, within your mind. Loosen your spirit to get inspired, and tighten the inspiration to get a story line that can allow you make a movie full of inspiring messages. Inspiration comes when we are determined to inspire people. It comes when we allow our minds to embrace wholly whatever daily outcomes we encounter in our daily living. Every moment or every event is an inspiration. But we must tune our minds into those moments; and we must inform our minds the need to inspire other people through the stories we may tell from the inspirations we may get. We must be passionate with the live events that relate to our proposed
movie themes. When you want to make a movie with a theme which centers on 'politics', then you must be passionate with the political situation of the economy.
Inspiration is the key to locking up leaky movies with leaky themes. Inspirations mend movies and the hearts that watch the movies. We have to get inspired in order to inspire our audience.

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We need to spend reasonable time in our productions.

We should not make a whole feature film in just 3 days. Good and wonderful things take time to be created. We need to start spending some reasonable and creative time on our movie productions. Movie production is not a 'fast food'. Once you produce your movie like a 'fast food', your audience will digest it like a fast food. Fast foods don't have weight. They don't last. A movie that lasts in the minds of the audience is a movie that took enough creative time to be produced.

We need to be open.

Yes we need to be open. We need to welcome talents that can help out in the production. Movie Production is very collaborative, and for you to succeed in this collaboration, you must keep and open mind. Do not do everything yourself. You must not be the story developer, the scriptwriter, the editor, the director and the producer at same time.

We need to have a plan.

No haphazard job! Movie making has steps and processes that lead to it. You should not jump any, lest you end up wasting your hard earned resources. You need to plan and follow the processes.

See some of the processes involved:

Awareness of the prevalent theme: Just take note of the trending situation at present and decide on the type of movie you would want to make.
Idea furnishing: Get exposed on the situation and get your ideas furnished
Story development: Begin to concentrate the ideas to form a story.
Write the story: Develop the screenplay
Re-write the screenplay: Re-write the screenplay and make it ready for shooting and production
Do the casting: Point out the number of characters that are needed
Do the budgeting: Point out the cost by identifying the elements and objects needed to shoot the movie
Get sponsors and co producers of need be: Look for persons, media and companies who are willing to partner with you.
Get certifications: Do the necessary registrations and clearances.
Reach out to agents and managers who are stake holders in the movie industry
Contact and negotiate with the actors and actresses: Reach out to their agents and managers.
Scout the locations: Get permissions from the appropriate authorities for locations to be used for the shooting
Keep the locations in order: Design the settings
Schedule the shooting: Manage the timings and dates for the movie shooting
Have a briefing with the crew members: Assemble the collaborators and decide how and when to commence.
Commence the shooting.
The editing should take over after shooting: Production managers should handle things
Proper productions should set in
The media involved should start work to publicize the movie
Organize movie premiers and let the world see your movie

NOTE: The above points are for the separate key players in the Nollywood Movie Making industry - The writer, the re-writer, the casting person, the production manager, the location manager, the director, the editor, the media, the sponsor, the executive producer and the producer.

I'm not encouraging that one person should handle all these himself. I still insist there should be collaboration in moving making. The producer should welcome collaborators.

We need to be prepared.

Yes be prepared! You can't just wake up one morning and start calling and negotiating with actors and actresses on a movie you want them to be part of. Have you already put the necessary things on ground? Do you have the wherewithal? Are you ready to take the risk? Movie production is a very massive project. You need to be prepared to venture into it.

We need not be cheap.

Quality things are not cheap. You need to buy the best scripts, get the best collaborators, get the best actors and actresses, get the best production managers; and then see your movie becoming one of the best. This above doesn't mean you should spend all your resources on getting the best. There young, budding talented script writers, actors and production managers around. Look for them and get them involved. They will give you the best, and it won't cost you much.

We shall get our movies right, I insist!

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Making your Nollywood Movie: Processes involved in Nollywood Movie Making

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Nollywood Movie Producers vs Nollywood Script-writers: Who Nollwood producers should hire to write their Nollywood movie scripts.

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Click here to see a list of creative Nollywood movie scripts for sale. They are already reviewed and ready-to-shoot spec scripts.
We have good quality movie scripts for you, and We will collaborate with you to make your Nollywood Movie. Send a mail to scriptsandpapers@gmail.com.

This is more or less the qualities of a good Nollywood Scriptwriter.

Dear Nollywood producer, before you hire any writer to write your Nollywood screenplay, take note of these below:

(1)Don't hire any writer who cannot write an action and dramatic movie without guns, swords, machetes, stunts, car chases, and physical fights.
A good writer should know that action packed movies should not always be a movie where two people are fighting with guns and swords. A movie can be filled with actions just from the dialogues of the characters.
There is what we call ''war of words''. A movie full of 'war of words' is not just one of the best action movies, but also a very mature movie. Just the dialogues alone are mightier than the guns. Nollywood movies are soft movies, but yet full of actions. So a Nollywood writer who can't afford to create an action screenplay without guns and stunts is not yet a Nollywood scriptwriter.
Dear producer, hire a writer who can write a dramatic and action movie without guns, swords, machetes, stunts, car chases, and physical fights.

(2)Don't hire any writer who can't provide realizable scenes and locations.
Getting normal locations for Nollywood movie shooting is not that easy let alone the elusive and imaginative ones. Nollywood writers should be real. Write what it is, not what you think it is! The scene, settings and locations should be a bit real and not far-fetched.
Dear producer, hire a writer who can provide realizable scenes and locations.

(3)Don't hire any writer who cannot match actors to his characters.
Casting Nollywood movies is easy when the writer can suggest the appropriate actors who can take up the characters in his screenplay. A Nollywood scriptwriter should be able to know when a character should fit Mercy Johnson, Nkem Owoh or John Okafor. Dear producer, don't hire a writer who cannot match actors to his characters.

(4)Don't hire any writer afraid of you copying his stories.
A good Nollywood scriptwriter should be dynamic in story hunting and maneuvering. Even after someone copies his story, he should know how to redesign the copied story. A good writer is full of stories. A good
writer should not be afraid.
Dear producer, hire the writer who isn't afraid of you copying his stories.

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(5)Don't hire any writer who doesn't have a body of work.
When a writer has a body of work, it will be easy for him to give you whatever type of screenplay genre you want. And again it will be a proof the writer is a determined writer. Any writer who has a body of work has a lot of written pieces in different genres and topics.
Dear producer, hire a writer who has a body of work.

(6)Don't hire any writer who writes to show off.
Script-writing is a serious business where the descriptions about actions and dialogues are precise, exact, direct, brief and straight to the point. No need to write to show off. No need to write with 'big
vocabulary'.
Dear producer, hire the writer who doesn't write to show off.

(7)Don't hire any writer who has no ample knowledge about our economy.
Our country's economy is not buoyant. Nollywood screenplays should be of low budget. The loyal citizens of this country want to get a good, thrilling and satisfying entertainment with part of the little stipends they earn from their various businesses and jobs. And as a result of this, a writer has to diligently accustom himself to fit into their plight by cleverly learning to write exciting,
scintillating, fascinating and awesome story line scripts that are of low budget in production.
Dear producer, hire a writer who has ample knowledge about our economy.

(8)Don't hire any writer who doesn't have channels.
Every business or talent needs to be exported or advertised for consumers or audiences to know about it. This is how writers get known. And any writer that carries out such exercise strives to become a successful writer. A writer should have different media channels like weblog, Facebook, twitter, social columns e.t.c.
Dear producer hire a writer who has channels.

(9)Don't hire any writer who is not determined to become an independent film maker.
The more one thinks of becoming independent, the more they work harder. Writers who are determined to become independent film makers are hardworking writers.
Dear producer, hire a writer who is determined to become an independent film maker.

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Great Screenplay Conflict; a way out for a budding screenwriter

Net Content on February 13, 2016 0

Whenever you are confused on how to write your screenplay, just think of a 'conflict'. Once you are able to install a conflict, the conflict will force the screenplay to move on. Conflict is the tap root of a screenplay, the other components are the root hairs. Conflict anchors these other components (which are dialogues, actions, scenes, themes) and drags them as it moves on. And as long as the conflict resurfaces, the components elongates; and consequently, the story evolves from one level to another. So once you create a conflict for your screenplay, the story quickly begins to roll out and tell itself.
Conflict is powerful enough to drive your story because it is simply the competition and interactions (be it negative, positive, contentious, peaceful or violent) between the characters in your story. These interactions create the scenes, the dialogues, the actions, the themes; and once these are created and repeated, your story lasts. A single conflict between the villain and the hero on a mere contest for who wins the heart of a young damsel can create a whole lot of dialogues, actions, and scenes. It can also help you create more characters; and this may consequently establish other sub conflicts and the whole thing keeps multiplying. Do you know what? Just one conflict alone can provide you up to 10 feature screenplays. Conflict is powerful!

May be you are thinking of how to create conflict, right? Come on that's easy. There are many ways. Your environment is full of conflicts everyday, and this is due to the interactions between humans.

Here is a few tips on how to create a conflict for your screenplay;

(1) Take note of the daily interactions and face-offs in your neighborhood

(2) Discover the bone of contention in the face-offs

(3) Bring them into your screenplay

(4) Analyze and separate them if they are more than two. Know the ones that are contentious, violent, peaceful, friendly, ...

(5) If you already have a story on ground, then bring in any of the interactions that fits the story

(6) If you have no story on ground, then brainstorm on the different dimensions the interaction could lead to.
If the interaction is a very contentious one, then it may lead to violence. And this paves way for more other kinds of interactions, and hence more diverse dialogues and scenes.
But in the contentious interaction, if there is a strong mediation, the violence may not escalate. It may just result to just normal controversies and disagreement.
Now talking about the mediation in the contentious interaction, who will do the mediation? Other characters right? So have you seen that the different dimensions of just a single interaction can make you create many characters, and consequently scenes are produced, and consequently a story is manufactured?

(7) As you keep brainstorming, keep visualizing the scenes that will be created. Each scene will surely have it's dialogues, its actions and its characters associated to it. Just get your writing pad and start scribbling somethings down. Before you know it, you are already carving out a screenplay.

So, whenever you are confused on how to tell your story, just think of a conflict.

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Magazine production crew: Duties of an Editorial Secretary

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(1)He takes the minutes of the crew members' meetings

(2)Involves in handling collected articles

(3)Keeps record of all the business schedules in case the crew would go
out sourcing for adverts

(4)Represents the editor-in-chief whenever he isn't around

(5)Must go with the editor-in-chief on any business outing

(6)Must oversea the activities of other offices especially that of the
financial secretary and the treasurer

(7)Will call for articles in conjunction with the PRO

(8)Must be able to answer to any questions regarding the productions
of the magazine

(9)Must look for good designs in conjunction with the editor-in-chief

(10)Must keep all the records!

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