The name Dami Elebe may not ring a bell in Nollywood circles yet, but the curvy script writer and on-air-personality on Beat FM is the damsel behind successful online web drama series like Skinny Girl in Transit ,Rumor Has It and Jemeji.
Dami noted that there are so many changes she would love to see in Nollywood. She also said scriptwriters need to be paid better.
“I feel a lot of people still do not understand how important the story and script are. You see trailers of movies and you are so eager to watch only to get there and it is such a flawed story from near beginning to end. Of course there are situations where a script was written and the movie shot swayed away from the script to a certain extent but sometimes, it’s impossible to pick that as the issue when you see how terribly off the story is.
“The story and script are the skeletal phase of any movie. It is too important because without it, there is no movie at all. Paying them peanuts to do such a job is insulting. I mean, you can never really pay someone enough for something so important to their minds but you can try to pay them something that is worth it. You see writers being paid hundred thousand to two hundred thousand per movie.
“That’s quite unfair. Since that happens, you have writer expending so much brain power to give so many movies or TV shows so they can make enough to survive in these difficult economic times. This alone will tire the mind from thinking up super-duper epic stories. Paying them more will be amazing” she revealed to Bellanaija.