ABSTRACT
This research topic, “A Comparative Study of the use of
Continuity in Nollywood and Hollywood Films” views the detailing of actions
without break or interruption in film time in Nollywood and Hollywood film
production, with a case study of a Nollywood film “The Wedding Party I” and
Hollywood film “Acrimony”. The objective of this work is to help find new
(improvised) techniques to capture events in new perspective; like mounting a
tripod on a wheel chair to perform the function of a dolly, to avoid film
errors in the absence of advanced technology gadgets. Observations by carefully
studying films and expository; browsing books, journals, reviews, books and the
internet method used to achieve the analysis. If these techniques noted in this
research are utilized, it may improve the narrative structure of any film.
OUTLINE
TITLE PAGE
i
CERTIFICATION
ii
DEDICATION iii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
iv
THESIS STATEMENT
v
ABSTRACT
vi
TABLE OF CONTENT vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background of the study
1
Statement of the problem
3
Objective of the study
4
Delimitation of the study
5
Significance of the study 5
Definition of term
6
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Concept of
continuity
7
2.2 Theoretical
framework
9
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Synopsis of
Kemi Adetiba’s Wedding Party I 20
3.2 Directorial
Style in Wedding Party I
25
3.3 Synopsis of
Tyler Perry’s Acrimony
36
3.4 Directorial
Style in Acrimony
43
CHAPTER FOUR DATA:
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.1
Interpretation of Wedding Party I
50
4.2 Continuity
of Element in Wedding Party I 54
4.3
Interpretation of Directorial Style in Acrimony 58
4.4 Continuity
Element in Acrimony 61
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Summary of
findings
63
5.2
Conclusion
65
5.3
Recommendation
66
WORK CITED
67
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Nollywood films are rooted deeply in Nigerian traditional,
cultural and social contexts that focuses on Nigerian community life. Nollywood
film reflects and reveals the richness, complexity and in some cases the humor
of the global black experience. For decades, Nigeria’s film industry, also
known as Nollywood have been making waves across the globe partly because of
the speed of the growth. The United Nation named it “The second most productive
film industry in the world”.
The rate
and energy at which films in Nigeria are produced are comparatively on a low
budget. Nollywood films were full of drama but had low production values with
drawn out scenes and plotline. “They have long dramatic soliloquies and
speeches” says Nollywood film producer and Director, Pris Nzimiro – Nwanah, “
and (in another scene) you’d see a car backing out of the drive way for so long
that I could leave the room, go and cook and when I’ve returned they’d still be
driving”. Due to the high cost of high celluloid, “To make a film will take
N4m-N10m, and making a cinematic standard will take N4100m”, the producers will
have to resort mass production, but the quality of film shot or rather produced
were inferior, although cost effective.