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Makere Then, Makere Now

Young Makere aka Lil Makere

Old Makere

Big Makere

I look so sad but this is a celebration outing with the team after Proverb signed a licencing deal with Universal Music for FourthWrite.

She is one of the most talented vocalist and songwriter I have ever come across. I call her the hit machine. She has amassed over 1.8 million hits on the net. Check out her music right here www.melina4u.com. Ooh she is also featured on the smash single by Proverb titled Legacy.

Original African Stories 2 #OAS2 08 October 2012

Her majesty is in the building

Zahara - Loliwe

Naija's first lady of rap Mo Cheddah

OAS2 has been a very stress free project to work on, we have learnt from the mistakes of the first season. This season we have shot in SA, Nigeria and added Kenyan artists. Unfortunately we could not make it to Uganda because there was an Ebola outbreak so we just stayed in Kenya for few more days and sampled the local culture. If we get renewed for the third season we will definatly travel to UG. We have already shot 80% of the season and post-production is going very smooth. A strong team is an underrated concept.
Hope you enjoy, webisodes will also be uploaded on the Channel O website.
Callback Dreams / Square Leg "We Shoot Pretty Pictures"

Writers Club in the background - Lets play "Spot Makere"

This music video was one of the most dramatic experience on a set ever for me as a producer. Trying to execute a very complicated storyboard is not the easiest task and I am glad we pulled it off. This video was in pre-production for four months (trying to get all the cameos for one day is a very interesting experience , they all have very hectic schedules and getting funding for an expensive project does not take a day), the shoot was one day and four months in post-production (the fastest process was the grading, but graphics had to be re-done four times, we had to fly someone from Cape Town to see through the original vision, because the first graphics were not working for the project). It was the first time the production was using the Red Epic and this camera is not post-production friendly. Transcoding the footage takes days. We went through the budget like Bill Gates was funding it. We even lost track of how much we were spending, we had gone to far to turn back. Jobie my business partner and I aged a few years just putting this music video together. We had to see this vision through and I am glad and relieved we achieved that.

Proverb - Writers Club, is an art piece.