Finally the great DDAY arrived! After weeks of planning, hustling, praying, hoping and stressing, the MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION CAMP (MVP Camp) for young entertainers started.
Considering the very low budget and little resources available, it was a miracle assembling all the pieces in readiness for the cast and crew as we had to do last minute hustliung for the video mixers, extra lights, extra cameras etc than we planned.
The technical director, Ayo Bakare and his team worked their asses off to make things happen. About 43 out of the eventual 54-man cast and crew showed up on friday night.
For the first 2 hours it was chaos all over the camp ground as nobody was really clear what was going to happen and who was going to do what or even where anybody was going to sleep due to the tightness of space.....afterall, nobody has been to a Music Video Production Camp before! The MVP concept is an original concePt that allows several music videos to be produced for musicians at a stretch with all the dancers and the rest of the technical crew housed in the same location.This season one of the reality show requires 8 videos to be produced for 8artistes in a 10-day period.
Day one ended with the separation of the housemates into 2 different groups - the STINGO TEAM AND THE MANIATEAM. Each group has its own full complement of production crew including Artists, Dancers, Make-up, Directors, Editors, Cameramen etc. They also received their list of songs to be produced on video...
It was fun all the way up to the time we had the TEAM CHALLENGE. The LOSER of the team challenge each night will have the responsiblitiy of washing the toilets AND CLEANING THE WHOLE COMPOUND the next day. The Stingo team won on opening night with Shinko defeating Aydu Amah in arm wrestling.
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True to its profile of being trail-blazers and solutions providers in the entertanment industry, Stingomania Records has again dared to raise the stakes in the igerian music industry by releasing albums for 4 of its top artistes at the premium price of N1,000 per album [International price: $9.99(digital) $12.99 (physical)]. The special album is a combo of BOTH MUSIC CD and VIDEO CD in one pack as a special treat for fans.
While this new pricing is in line with international pricing of music albums, that price is seen as revolutionary in Nigeria where albums previously sold for only N150 (abut $2),until TUFACE came out with the new pricing for his own album. In following the part blazed by tuface recently, Stingomania Records is committed to a new pricing regime in the blossoming Nigerian music industry.
According to Stingomania Boss, it is impossible to be profitable and pay the artistes good royalty under the previous pricing system.We simpl want to remain in business and also esure our artistes are well taken care of.
Artistes making their debut this month on the Stingomania Records label include BABA NEE with '2ice as 9ice', AYDU AMAH with 'Ishi Monkey', NATURAH with 'Shakara' and TRYBSON with 'Dudukoko Reloaded'
Fans can now download the pre-release copies of individual tracks or the complete albums now at stingomania SHOP at: http://www.reverbnation.com/stingomaniaalltars. The physical albums will be released on the 15th of August to the general public.
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While the rest of the entertainment industry was wondering what is next in stock for the upstart Stingomania Records Label, the upstart record label recently made another audacious move to carve its name into the record books with its recently concluded history making Musical Video Production Camp.
In a period of 10 days from January 17th-27th, Stingomania executives convened what is now regarded as the 1st MVP Camp for young and upcoming artistes at an exclusive location in Lekki. At the MVP Camp, a group of 43 people including 8 artistes on the Stingomania label, their friends and executives of Stingomania records, most of whom have never been previously involved in music video production, simply kept shooting one musical video after the other with a couple of HD Cameras. By the time the dust settled 10 days later, the Stingomania Squad has produced 19 incredible music videos in barely 10 days.
The most stunning part of this almost impossible achievement is that the whole camp idea was an impromptu brain wave of the CEO and his team of highly motivated executives and artistes. All they started out to shoot was one music video for Trybson’s Dudukoko and the event simply developed a life of its own and at the end of the camp over 43 people had gathered at the camp to contribute one thing or the other.
At the end of the 10 day period, the participants as well as the executives of Stingomania records were pleasantly surprised to realize they have shot a total of 19 musical videos for 8 of the artistes on the Stingomania records label at different locations in Lekki. Some of the musical videos produced include videos for hits such as Dudukoko, Alepo, Stingo Girl, Koto and Reasons for TRYBSON, Kolo and Kainje for AYDU AMAH; Love Wan Tin Tin for EMX, the extremely controversial 2ICE as 9ICE for BABA NEE; Pay the Money, Overnight, In my life and Ko Ye Mi o for OVIS TEE; Show Your Logo for EAZY LIZY; Shimpaka for WHICHLEVELZ and Wind E for OBESERE.
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Director's Diary From the MVP Camp - DAY ONE
Finally the great DDAY arrived! After weeks of planning, hustling, praying, hoping and stressing, the MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION CAMP (MVP Camp) for young entertainers started. Considering the very low budget and little resources available, it was a miracle assembling all the pieces in readiness for the cast and crew as we had to do last minute hustliung for the video mixers, extra lights, extra cameras etc than we planned. The technical director, Ayo Bakare and his team worked their asses off to make things happen. About 43 out of the eventual 54-man cast and crew showed up on friday night. For the first 2 hours it was chaos all over the camp ground as nobody was really clear what was going to happen and who was going to do what or even where anybody was going to sleep due to the tightness of space.....afterall, nobody has been to a Music Video Production Camp before! The MVP concept is an original concePt that allows several music videos to be produced for musicians at a stretch with all the dancers and the rest of the technical crew housed in the same location.This season one of the reality show requires 8 videos to be produced for 8artistes in a 10-day period. Day one ended with the separation of the housemates into 2 different groups - the STINGO TEAM AND THE MANIATEAM. Each group has its own full complement of production crew including Artists, Dancers, Make-up, Directors, Editors, Cameramen etc. They also received their list of songs to be produced on video... It was fun all the way up to the time we had the TEAM CHALLENGE. The LOSER of the team challenge each night will have the responsiblitiy of washing the toilets AND CLEANING THE WHOLE COMPOUND the next day. The Stingo team won on opening night with Shinko defeating Aydu Amah in arm wrestling.
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Four Stingomania Artistes Drop Landmark Albums
True to its profile of being trail-blazers and solutions providers in the entertanment industry, Stingomania Records has again dared to raise the stakes in the igerian music industry by releasing albums for 4 of its top artistes at the premium price of N1,000 per album [International price: $9.99(digital) $12.99 (physical)]. The special album is a combo of BOTH MUSIC CD and VIDEO CD in one pack as a special treat for fans. While this new pricing is in line with international pricing of music albums, that price is seen as revolutionary in Nigeria where albums previously sold for only N150 (abut $2),until TUFACE came out with the new pricing for his own album. In following the part blazed by tuface recently, Stingomania Records is committed to a new pricing regime in the blossoming Nigerian music industry. According to Stingomania Boss, it is impossible to be profitable and pay the artistes good royalty under the previous pricing system.We simpl want to remain in business and also esure our artistes are well taken care of. Artistes making their debut this month on the Stingomania Records label include BABA NEE with '2ice as 9ice', AYDU AMAH with 'Ishi Monkey', NATURAH with 'Shakara' and TRYBSON with 'Dudukoko Reloaded' Fans can now download the pre-release copies of individual tracks or the complete albums now at stingomania SHOP at: http://www.reverbnation.com/stingomaniaalltars. The physical albums will be released on the 15th of August to the general public.
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Stingomania Records Breaks Music Video Records with 19 Music Videos in 10 days
While the rest of the entertainment industry was wondering what is next in stock for the upstart Stingomania Records Label, the upstart record label recently made another audacious move to carve its name into the record books with its recently concluded history making Musical Video Production Camp. In a period of 10 days from January 17th-27th, Stingomania executives convened what is now regarded as the 1st MVP Camp for young and upcoming artistes at an exclusive location in Lekki. At the MVP Camp, a group of 43 people including 8 artistes on the Stingomania label, their friends and executives of Stingomania records, most of whom have never been previously involved in music video production, simply kept shooting one musical video after the other with a couple of HD Cameras. By the time the dust settled 10 days later, the Stingomania Squad has produced 19 incredible music videos in barely 10 days. The most stunning part of this almost impossible achievement is that the whole camp idea was an impromptu brain wave of the CEO and his team of highly motivated executives and artistes. All they started out to shoot was one music video for Trybson’s Dudukoko and the event simply developed a life of its own and at the end of the camp over 43 people had gathered at the camp to contribute one thing or the other. At the end of the 10 day period, the participants as well as the executives of Stingomania records were pleasantly surprised to realize they have shot a total of 19 musical videos for 8 of the artistes on the Stingomania records label at different locations in Lekki. Some of the musical videos produced include videos for hits such as Dudukoko, Alepo, Stingo Girl, Koto and Reasons for TRYBSON, Kolo and Kainje for AYDU AMAH; Love Wan Tin Tin for EMX, the extremely controversial 2ICE as 9ICE for BABA NEE; Pay the Money, Overnight, In my life and Ko Ye Mi o for OVIS TEE; Show Your Logo for EAZY LIZY; Shimpaka for WHICHLEVELZ and Wind E for OBESERE.
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