HIVE NIAJA WEEKLY PROMPT #13: MY PREFERENCE FOR A FILM SETTING IS VILLAGE STYLE

Hello hivers, hope we are doing well. When I saw the prompt for this week's #hivenaija contest I knew I had to attempt this question as I just finished watching the just released jagunjagun by Femi Adebayo.

1️⃣For many of us, film setting is everything; that is, where the scenes are shot. Which do you prefer, the village style or city style? Tell us your choice and why.

Although there is no reason to prefer either a village style to a city style because they all have something to portray about the society we live in. But for the purpose of this contest, I would pick the village style over the city style for various reasons which I would explain. Also, to buttress my point and make it clear, I will be citing examples for the just released movie by Femi Adebayo, titled "JAGUNJAGUN". Simply put, it's an epic movie set in the past, that explains how warriors fight war and capture other villages.

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In Nigeria, I am only familiar with the village style of movie settings which are igbo movies, yoruba movies and Edo movies. One thing peculiar about these movies is the village spatial setting, costumes, culture, songs, adventures, natural landscape mud houses and so many more.

• PORTRAYING CULTURAL BELIEFS: Most yoruba movies set in the village or home town are known to contain scenes that portray the cultural beliefs of the community where the movie was shot. For instance, the movie jagunjagun had several scenes of different villages in the movie, We also saw the traditional native way of worshipping gods also called juju. The use of magical powers and incantations are cultural heritage from our forefather practiced by traditional worshippers. The use of spears and arrows to fight wars back then. The use of kolanut and schnapps to advocate for peace. In these village movies, the portrayal of traditional marriages are always such a delight to watch, the way bride prices are paid and engagement rites are carried out is beautiful.

• LOVE: unlike this modern day when phone calls, text messages, Skype, video calls and so on have taking over communication to loved ones. In village movies, we see how boyfriends and girlfriends meet at different locations like under the tree or one Iya Basira shop to while away time. Holding hands and professing love In natural way.

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• MODE OF DRESSING:we saw different cultures of dressing, the women were adorned with native attires of buba and iron, some even wear beads around their waist, the men wear buba and SORO. At some point the warriors wore local outfit laced with traditional medicine to protect them in the course of the war. The popular wears of adire and Kampala with asoke were commonly used to portray indigenous dressing. This is peculiar to village style of movies unlike the adoption of western wear in city movies.

• STYLE OF HAIR DRESSING: the beautiful way the women adorn their hairs with beads, cowries, really portrays the cultural settings in a village style movie. There are different traditional hairstyles like adimole, all back, shuku, round about, calabar and so many more.

• TRADITIONAL MUSICS: In village style yoruba movie settings, we hear sound of the traditional Bata drum playing at the background, the use of oriki to praise leaders.

• USE OF TRADITIONAL PROPS: it's been a while I went to the village, hence watching the movie jagunjagun brought back memories of how my grandma uses calabash pot to store water back then, the olden wares that used to be in our mother cupboards, build huts with palm fronds, the use of horsetail (irukere) to complete one's dressing.

There are several reasons why I love village style movies, especially ones that are released recently, they always have their ways in elevating cultural storytelling and cultures in general. I am also proud of my country Nigeria, pushing cultural movies beyond the walls of Nigeria🇳🇬, now we are global💃💃

This is my entry for hive naija weekly contest, check it here

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