Star actress, Joke Silva, has let the cat out of the bag concerning how filmmakers ‘cheat’ viewers with settings.
Often, the scenes are not happening where you think they are.
Hear her: “I once shot a movie in France, but all the interior shots were taken in London, United Kingdom. All we did in France were the exteriors shots to give the ambience of that country. Sound stages give one control.”
She revealed this during a recent youth development forum called, The Roundtable Lekki.
Hammering on the need to build studios and stages for filming, she noted: “We shoot in apartments these days. But, I won’t allow movies to be shot in my home; it won’t happen. I know the number of people that are brought into a shoot. There may be two people in a scene, but to shoot it, there will probably be about 20 people there. That means 20 people will put their hands on my wall, block the loo, and do other things. We need to build our studios and sound stages, just like American filmmaker, Tyler Perry, has done. He built one of the biggest sound stages in the world. The thing with sound stages is that there are usually facades. I once shot a movie in France, but all the interior shots were taken in London, United Kingdom. All we did in France were the exteriors shots to give the ambience of that country. Sound stages give one control. It allows one to make movies at one’s desired pace.”
