Before the coronavirus pandemic, director Adebola Ogunshina had the perfect script for his romance movie, filled with emotional highs and lows and intimate love scenes.Adebola — a seasoned, Ibadan-based director and scriptwriter — found that Covid-19 has, in every sense, delivered the kiss of death to that script. He now finds himself in the unenviable position of having to rewrite it to incorporate “creative social distancing” into those love scenes.
The fallout for the Nigerian film industry has been significant. Many of the million-odd people who earn a living from Nollywood are suffering financially, while coronavirus containment measures are making it more difficult to make movies. Ogunshina said that the inability to shoot films means more people in the industry “are going broke”.
But they are considered absolutely necessary. After all, a single Covid-19 infection on set could totally derail the production — and perhaps even the production company itself. Fabusoro has “drastically” reduced the crew members for his soap opera, from 25 to 10. The reduction in crew is designed to help film producers to navigate the current financial troubles of the industry. He added that close-up shots are now being prioritised over wide and medium shots, to limit the interactions of actors on set.
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