STORY/SCREENPLAY.

The height Ghana Films is still hoping to reach needs more hands on deck. One person can’t do everything even if all the needed resources were available to him or her. Rome as beautiful as it is was never built in a day. Hollywood took more than 40 years before it could realized its potential by following a systematic process employing everything it could not forgetting the ‘people’
Ghana as a developing country in the West of Africa has also come to live in a cinematic world whereby the experience people expect to acquire from films are criticized if not met. Why? Because most of what we are being given lack the necessary elements that give life to a film.
I think the problem lies with the rush we produce films pertaining to story/screenplay. This part of production needs a lot of dedicated time before production starts. The hard truth is, NO QUALITY MOVIE can have its pre-production, production and post-production completed in a month or two. Whatever will come out will be a trash. Filmmakers also don’t delegate duties to others to contribute their quota to the development of the industry. There are so many people in Ghana that have either specialized in story development or screenwriting which; Obuobi Onesiphorus, Prince Von Xola-Bismarck Ekow B. Gaisey, Nana Elikem, Kossi Akplah, Benjamin Kwabena, Atachie Richard, Paul Addae Mensah, Labronzy Hayford and a lot more who can write with a heart felt love, thus will help to push the industry forward when given the chance.
However, there a lot of filmmakers who also write exceptionally which can include the likes of Peter Orgnah Sedufia, Eddie Nartey, Kobi Rana, Abu Iddris,Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Leila Afua Djansi and many more etc. But it all boils down to ‘content’.
Let us give the best to the people because they still believe in the future of the industry. A time well spent in pre-production gives better life to what we bring out there. Investors are always watching. We can do it together!

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