CINEMATOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF INGENUOUS CAMERA DIRECTING IN THE SELECTED WORKS OF KUNLE AFOLAYAN

Over the years, there has been a global evolution of hi-tech cinematic inventions. Film directors all over the world are swayed to handle the totality of their film visuals with great technical drive in a bid to ensuring that their film stories meet the digital yearnings of their audience. In spite of these yearnings for the use of hi-tech filming equipment, many directors/producers have not gotten it right and it is on this premise that this study did a cinematographic evaluation of ingenuous camera directing in the selected works of Kunle Afolayan in Anikulapo and Citation. This study employs qualitative research design, using the content analytical method and interview from which the primary data for the study are sourced Secondary data are sourced from documentaries, books, scholarly journals, and internet sources. The study finds that the director used several dark shots and over-the-shoulder angle directorial styles in Anikulapo and Citation to convey suspense. It was also found that established shots were employed by Afolayan in Anikulapo and Citation to create effective scene transitions while maintaining an ISO range exposure of 160 to 340 in the films under examination to make the visuals less contrastive. This study concludes that Aníkúlápó and Citation were directed with a great level of cinematographic expertise, to obtain quality framings and unique visual dimension resulting in a quintessential cinematographic quality through the use of state-of-the-Art filming equipment. The study, therefore, recommended that budding film directors in Africa should emulate this visual dynamism which can be obtained from the process of training and retraining film directors for the purpose of maximising the use of hi-technological filming equipment.