Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Bolaji Ogunmola has opened up about the challenges of making movies for YouTube, claiming that the platform was not originally designed for films.
Speaking in a recent interview with Jay On-Air, Ogunmola said making films for YouTube audience is expensive and risky.
She explained that actors charge expensive fees and fans also assumed producers make a lot of money from movies with millions of views, which isn’t often the case.
“YouTube was never designed for films. Film is a very expensive art. Actors are collecting N4-5 million for four days. The least maybe N1-2 million,” she said.
Ogunmola urged Nigerians to be constructive in their criticisms of YouTube filmmakers, stressing that “even the worst film on YouTube cost money to make.”
She added that Nigerian is the only country that makes YouTube movies because the country has poor distribution.