Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects

They use Techno Phones [0]. It&#x27;s really the leading telephone in my country back in Africa to the point my wife refused me to buy her a Samsung one. :D<p>You find those phone have really nice camera, and most importantly power consumption that can span at least 2 days...<p>Peoples complaining that China is just copycat-ing stuff do not know how China is influencing peoples in developing countries.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;africas-top-mobile-phone-seller-transsion-to-list-in-chinese-ipo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;africas-top-mobile-phone-s...</a>

This is fantastic. It&#x27;s been a promise for a long time that computers would become ubiquitous, open source software would be able to allow people to do (semi-)professional looking things for free, having access to the internet would be a great enabler, etc.<p>This is just proof that it&#x27;s happening! It&#x27;s genuinely inspiring to see this.

&quot;They saved for a month to buy the green fabric for the chroma-key background&quot;.

I love how these guys had better sound recordings from their low cost setup than the TV crew covering them, good work!<p>I think they have the right idea though, start with what you already have. Try to test out ideas and learn with as little pre-investment as possible. Some friends of mine have purchased $3k-$4k gaming machines with the intention of live streaming gaming - all of which never came to fruition.<p>The very best of luck to them, I hope to see their movies on the Western big screen one day.

One of the biggest gifts that we can give our children is a limitation of resources. It is amazing how they learn and get really creative when given really basic tools to work with. They try things that they wouldn&#x27;t normally try.<p>I remember once my son wanted his own &quot;phone&quot; when he was 5. He ended up drawing the whole UI on paper and stuck it on a little slab of wood. Played with it for weeks.

Africas tech talent is on the rise, it&#x27;s quite interesting to see as even 10 years ago it was still hard for them to get access to cheap computers and internet.

Kids making movies by remixing copyrighted content and perhaps shooting some more is the topic of Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow. Pretty good book that explores the social implications of such efforts.

Awesome creativity! Naija no dey carry last. Proudly Naija!

So glad that they understood that the gain for the dialogue does not need to be set to 11, something that seems to be lacking from Nigerian TV &quot;professionals&quot; in my experience!<p>Super impressive overall!

Can anyone tell me what apps they&#x27;re using? I&#x27;d love to play around with a green screen, but don&#x27;t have much budget either

Impressive! I wonder what they&#x27;re using for video editing and vfx? Blender is great for 3d assets, but what open source software can make this?

A contender to Wakaliwood?

Posted on twitter ‘Hope that George Lucas either Disney could finance these guys’

good to see creativity beyond &#x27;ohey check out my youtube product reviews and live vlogging&#x27; (not that I don&#x27;t benefit from those as well)