Anyway, as always, disclaimer this is an opinion not a fact so if it offends you...umm...sorry? I think? Lets just start this:
1. Piration
Now piration is a very delicate subject when we come to our self-proclaimed "second world country" that is something something in IT and something something [insert more pretenious nonsesnse sbout being technoligically advanced] because whether we like it or not its a very legal thing. Legal? yes. well for those who dont know what im talking about there the video/movie stores that operate off selling pirated movies that are given licenses to operate by the [insert EVEN MORE pretenious nonsesnse sbout being technoligically advanced] government
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Most people argue that the fault is in the studios for not having proper distribution services and till then we can slowly kill this big studios. There not wrong...just assholes so idk maybe ISPs like Zuku can get a deal with like netflix so we get movies...however thats not the point.
The point is: imagine youre an indie Movie/game producer and you have your product ready. For it to get purchased you need it distributed. All the "movie joints" illegally download all the movies they sell so they can never spend money buyibg your product to stock there shelves. If you get someone good enough to buy it it will be at a loss and he will want his profit so imagine the retail price...lets be nice and pretend it will be like Kshs. 400. now imagine that you are the consumer your there at the movie joint and you have two options pick up 8 or 10 movies like idk Avenger:age of ultron, mad max: fury road, Furious 7, Jurassic World, Ant-man, Straight Outta Compton, Black Mass, Ted 2, and Emipre season 1 and 2 or leave all those and watch PAPA shirandula the movie: the rise of mama Naliaka
2. THE TARGET AUDIENCE AND THE DRAMA DILEMA
As any logical person knows the only logical way to do buisness is to target the largest class and unfortunately or fortunately kenyas largest class is the lower middle class. this means on top of the mass majority not being able to afford the extra luxury they(and i hope i dont offend anyone with this following words) preffer simple movies i.e drama and comedy at most action.
i know some of you that arent from that clas are now about to become keyboard ninjas and type how you understood inception and so youcould understand any film but this isnt about you you attention seeking ...donkey...look at the line up of most televisin stations ill just list as many as possible and tell me the genres...actualy im too lazy to look them up.
so i know what youre thinking,"from this three genres cant we do anything cool to become worldwide or atleast impress the whole country?" and i say NOOO!
actually i say maybe its just that saying no makes me sound cool. but yeah maybe some of us might have different lives and drama is not the same to me or you same tocomedy. However, action can work in any setting if built up correctly. Scifi creates a whole new world so that we are on level ground. the problem is once you make a Fast and the furious in kenya or a scifimovie people will always bash you with some xenophobic backlash because "ingikua mkenya angefanya hivi na hivi" and this trend in seen when a movie or show *cough* *cough* sense 8 *cough* *cough* has a kenyan character and people say that is not a kenyan.and that raises the question "what does it mean to be kenyan?"
random vidfeo because it has some of the best arguments about kenyas potrayal
and yeah thats all i had see you next time
just kidding you know we always post in sevens so now ill just do the most unkenyan thing and try giving solutions to the problems starting with this one.
APPRECIATE KENYAN THINGS
i know some of you that arent from that clas are now about to become keyboard ninjas and type how you understood inception and so youcould understand any film but this isnt about you you attention seeking ...donkey...look at the line up of most televisin stations ill just list as many as possible and tell me the genres...actualy im too lazy to look them up.
so i know what youre thinking,"from this three genres cant we do anything cool to become worldwide or atleast impress the whole country?" and i say NOOO!
actually i say maybe its just that saying no makes me sound cool. but yeah maybe some of us might have different lives and drama is not the same to me or you same tocomedy. However, action can work in any setting if built up correctly. Scifi creates a whole new world so that we are on level ground. the problem is once you make a Fast and the furious in kenya or a scifimovie people will always bash you with some xenophobic backlash because "ingikua mkenya angefanya hivi na hivi" and this trend in seen when a movie or show *cough* *cough* sense 8 *cough* *cough* has a kenyan character and people say that is not a kenyan.and that raises the question "what does it mean to be kenyan?"
3. Is there a kenyan culture?
before i start this point i need to explain what culture appropriation so that any instances of it arent counted part of ours. Cultural appropriation is when one community adopts the culture of another. some people see this as a good thing others see it as a negative thing. everyone is entitilted to there views but one of them is a douchebag, probably the latter. It is at this moment when we flashback to all the times when kenya gets a negative mention on CNN or someone does a piece on struggling nairobi and everyone boards a matatu to there nearest KFC, Subway, national park they normally bearly visit or take pictures of there friends home in runda(rip in peace spelling not going to look up if i spelt it right)
But ask them this #najivunia_kuwa_mkenya peeps what it means to be a kenyan and they will probabbly start listing tribal stereotypes. Not that i wouldnt mind hearing my hero talk with a kikuyu or luo accent but its not only misspronounciations and language, the kenyan culture goes much much deeper than how we pronounce words.
so lets pretend we have figured out what it means to be kenyan and we make a kenyan avengers facing off Magnegro, would you watch it? NOOO!
4. Its kenyan so it has to be bad
ayee chill i dont mean i think if its kenyan its bad but thats what many peoples mentality is. Dont be that guy who shouts that they are patriotic and you own nothin made in kenya minus the bed you most deifnetly bough at that carpenter wa hapo kwa corner.and yeah thats all i had see you next time
just kidding you know we always post in sevens so now ill just do the most unkenyan thing and try giving solutions to the problems starting with this one.
APPRECIATE KENYAN THINGS
5. We need to find a culture
I know this is easier said than done but its time we found out when someone tries to chuck out the whole of east leigh(or is it isili?) saying they arent kenyans we know exactly what being kenyan is.
6. Dont give up
so this point is a motivational speech to all creators. JUST DO IT. DONT LET YOURE DREAMS BE DREAMS. an all that other stuff that guy who isnt a celebrity says. the thing is if you are to try new stuff maybe you will be the one to introduce a new genre to our people. LOL but to be on the safe side if you do try an expeermintal genre dont do it in kenya market it to the world.
7. close down or deal with movie/game shops(that sell pirated material)
does this one need an explanation?
i know its impossible but its worth a try putting it up here
i know its impossible but its worth a try putting it up here
annyway now im done so sound of below if you agree disagree or just want to shout.
it g ma
