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{"title":"Organizing, Planning and Developing Visual Style in Screen Directing during Pre-Production","authors":"Oluyinka Smart Babalola","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.21","url":null,"abstract":"The screen director is the originator of the artistic vision and a repository of requisite knowledge and craft needed to bring all the arts and technology of filmmaking together. To be effective, the screen director must master the technology of film and learn how to manipulate the essential elements of the film form across the different stages of production. This paper outlines the processes and personnel needed to help the director achieve his/her duties optimally during the preproduction stage of filmmaking. This study from a participant-observer point of view developed as a result of years of experience in film production and pedagogy, describes practically, the various aspects of pre-production planning. From the shooting plan, which is a practical expression of the director’s vision of the script, to the creative decisions that emanate from that vision through a deep understanding of the theme or subject matter, the director creates a shooting script from the screenplay that is used by the producer and all departmental heads. The actordirector relationship is also very important to film production and this starts from the point of an actor auditioning for a role in a film. The rehearsal, which is the final stage of pre-production, is very crucial to filmmaking and every reasonable director rehearses the cast before principal photography. Working with colour, contrast, tone, pattern, etc., in choosing fabrics and materials, the costume, makeup, hairdressing and props team keys into the overall look of the film, in consultation with the director and the producer. This guide also explains the aspects of the schedule, budget, location, crewing and how it concerns the screen director. Everything about the film is concluded on paper well before production. From screenplay/rewrites, shooting script, floorplans, shooting plans, shot list, design sketches, lighting plots, camera movements and angles, through hiring crew; selecting and testing equipment, to location recce; auditioning and casting etc., a hardworking director makes adequate preparation at the pre-production stage.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129605184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reasserting Tunde Kelani’s Auteurism: A Review of his Artistic Signature in Arugba","authors":"Nyamekye Nyarko, Joseph Aketema","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.25","url":null,"abstract":"Tunde Kelani (TK) is one of the few astute filmmakers of the African continent whose cinematic works defy laid-down artistic styles and conventions. He expresses his cinematic language and narrative styles, which famously pay high credence to Yoruba cosmology, beliefs, and poetic and folkloric narrative elegance. Tunde Kelani’s auteurial and linguistic styles reflect every other artistic work he produces. Apart from giving his audience something of traditional and Afrocentric worth, he heightens themes of corruption and its devastating consequences on society through his films. Through content analysis, this article considers the thematic concerns of Tunde Kelani’s Arugba (2009). The term, auteurism is not a new concept when it comes to appraising the works of Tunde Kelani but new in the filmic discourse of Arugba (2009). Tunde’s cinematic signature is expounded to give insight into the themes raised as a means of explication. The conclusion reached is that TK exudes ideological, cultural, poetic and metaphysical motifs in the film Arugba (2009) in ways that intensify his concerns about the decaying political and societal rot within African society.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128013695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-Linguistic Interferences in the Articulation of English Fricatives among Selected Students in a Public University in Lokoja, Nigeria","authors":"Theodore Shey Nsairun","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"In the quest to solve human communication problems, the need to learn a foreign language arises, and this usually occurs in a multilingual setting. In the process of this learning, some challenges occur, especially the phonological phenomenon of interference. Given this challenge, the paper contributes to scholarly works on language learning by exploring the articulation of English fricatives by selected [ethnic] students of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL), Lokoja, Nigeria. The researchers carefully selected some participants from the Ebira, Igala and Okun-Yoruba ethnic groups, which form the majority of ethnicities in the university community. A total of 60 students were selected for this study; 20 each from the 3 major ethnic groups in FUL. The major instrument used for this research is the Read Aloud Method, containing nine carefully structured sentences each containing a target English fricative sound. The selected test items were read aloud by the participants and subjected to both perceptual and acoustic analyses. The acoustic analysis was done using the speech analyzer PRAAT. Audio-Articulation Model developed by Mehmet Demirezen was used as the framework for this study. The study reveals that there is a dominant influence from the mother tongue of the participants as they were unable to properly articulate some fricatives in some cases. Also, the study found that there is an overlapping peculiar to the different speakers representing each ethnic group. It can be concluded that since ethnic groups have their distinct languages, it is a factor in the inability of speakers to properly produce fricative sounds. This absence of the fricatives in the L1 shows up in the production of the L2.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125074970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"African Traditional Religion and Medicine in Contemporary Times","authors":"Independence Gabriel","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines traditional religion and medicine in Africa. Little credence is given to quality healthcare through traditional medicine in Africa and Nigeria to be precise. Every nation is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring quality healthcare delivery for its citizens. Regrettably, as a result of inconsistency in policy, misplacement of priority and corruption, healthcare indices in Nigeria and Africa generally are among the worst globally. Preventable diseases like malaria, diarrhoea, measles, typhoid, tuberculosis, diabetes and hypertension, among others, often lead to avoidable death. These are diseases which traditional medicine had been effectively providing remedies and cure for from timeimmemorial to the present period but this system has been neglected by the government. This is the problem that this study is meant to bring to the fore and thus be solved by proving ways in which traditional medicine can positively impact Nigerian society and Africa at large. Adopting the phenomenological, historical-analytic and direct observation methods, the article covers the use of herbs for healing purposes, medicine men and traditional practice in Africa, aspects of traditional medicine practised in Africa, divination, medicine and healing, medicine and taboo, and traditional medicine in modern society. ","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131911683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Mythic Reading of the Materialist Epiphany in Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft","authors":"Kingsley I. Ehiemua","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.29","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a mythic reading of Another Raft written and published in 1988 by the Nigerian playwright, Femi Osofisan. The paper gives a materialist interpretation of the play and its mythic resources to illustrate Osofisan’s drama as a dispassionate critique of society. It observes that the playwright’s deployment of mythology in the play, and the play’s intertextual connection to an earlier one, The Raft (published 1964), by J. P. Clark, is revelatory. One problem any reader familiar with the two plays may find with understanding Osofisan’s version is the prominent use of supernatural beings as characters mingling with humans, which is nonexistent in the older play. This paper’s interpretation, therefore, reveals and affirms that the supernatural figures in the play are only creative metaphors deployed by the playwright to comment on the mundane social reality of the world outside the text. It also reveals that Osofisan’s response in Another Raft to Clark’s The Raft is to differ ideologically from the older play on the root causes of the decadence and sterility in Nigeria’s social and political space. Osofisan’s response demystifies the seemingly elusive solution to the cankerworms destroying the fabric of the nation. The paper concludes that Osofisan’s recourse to mythic and traditional elements is very helpful to his creative imagination and his effort to provide a panacea, through the theatre, to the obstacles impeding economic and political progress in postcolonial Nigerian society.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"532 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131960712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Contrastive Analysis of Word Formation Processes in French and Yorùbá: Areas of Convergence and Divergence","authors":"Ajani Akinwumi Lateef","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The paper attempts to find answers to the following questions: are there areas of convergence/divergence in the word formation processes in French and Yorùbá? In what areas are the convergence and divergence? And if there is divergence, does it possess any learning difficulty for Yorùbá learners of the French language? To answer the questions, the paper ventures into the contrastive analysis of word formation processes in French and Yorùbá. Adopting the literary and historical-analytic methods, it takes a close at the various processes of word formation in both languages and points out areas of convergence and divergence. The paper further analyses the import of divergence regarding the mastery of the word formation process in French by the Yorùbá French learners and concludes by offering some didactic approaches that could make the wordformation process in French easier for the Yorùbá learners of the French language.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134383591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can News also be ‘Made in China?’","authors":"Bisi Olawuyi","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the growing inuence of China in the world and the possibility of it dominating international news or prescribing a journalistic template that could suit the normative developmental challenges of Africa. Under the aegis of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Third World countries demanded a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). This was to challenge the journalistic philosophy of the West. Unfortunately, Third World countries were not able to realise the objectives of NWICO chiey due to the Cold War politics of that period. However, the challenges of the 21st century have made the need to restructure global information architecture more urgent now than before. The position of this paper is that since Africa looks to China for economic sustainability, would it be out of place for the continent to also imbibe China's journalistic model as an alternative model to cater to the aspirations that led to the demand for new world information and communication order?","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"48 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114124674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theatre Designs for Counter-Terrorism: Performances of Ojo Bakare’s Drums of War as Paradigm","authors":"Nsikan Bassey Asuquo","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.26","url":null,"abstract":"The fight against terrorism has been unabated because as military forces kill members of terrorists groups, the terrorists are recruiting new members. So, there is a need to imbue in every society's psyche, a strong revulsion to be conscripted for terrorism. This study, therefore, uses Drums of War performances which were staged at different times of groups and communal hostilities with a glaring atmosphere of imminent bloodbaths in Nigeria, as paradigms with which to investigate the potential of theatre designs (in rousing the stark horrors of war/violence) as a psychological strategy for engineering in a people, a mindset that eschews violence or terror against fellow mankind. This study adopts a qualitative research methodology (which includes: participatory observation, focus group discussions with members of the audience community and interviews with the playwright and play director) for primary data gathering; while secondary data are gathered from journals and other library materials. This study anchors its argument on the Hypodermic Needle Theory and submits that: if every society (especially ones that are easy targets for terrorist recruitment) is strategically and effectively saturated with dramas that arouse an anti-terrorist vibe, the people (who are potential recruits for terrorist’s acts) would be indoctrinated against becoming willing conscripts into terrorism; hence, a dwindling in the manpower for the continuous proliferation of terrorism. ","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115818982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Continuity of Culture in the Entropy of Civilization","authors":"Shreeja Ghanta","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.7","url":null,"abstract":"The article primarily focuses on the perspectives of culture, entropy, and environment. Each of these perspectives draws on tumultuous events in the course of analysis. The thought structure, in general, can be that of the radical shift from an agrarian culture to industrialism but predominantly the question comes down to if Markandaya's characters were ready to take the new road? Adopting the ecocritical approach the article interrogates Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve, showing, among other things, the workings of entropy in various layers.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130089393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Concurrent Use of Traditional and Orthodox Modes of Healthcare Services among Out-Patient Nursing Mothers in Ikenne Local Government Area, Ogun State, Nigeria","authors":"S. Nwaobilor, Sola Aluko-Arowolo","doi":"10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.20","url":null,"abstract":"Every society makes provisions for the health care delivery system for its members, this is intending to provide medical and related services for the maintenance of good health, particularly through the prevention and treatment of diseases. This is in recognition of the pervasive importance of good health upon which life is contingent. Despite the development of more researched and formulated orthodox medicines, herbal medicines continue to be well patronized by persons across the world with some patrons concurrently using both forms, oblivious of the unwelcome effects that may occur. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. For the study, a quantitative approach was used in analyzing the data collected, the population of the study were females between the ages 15-49 with a total of 1081 nursing mothers in Ikenne Local Government Area (LGA), Ogun Nigeria. Sample size determination calculation by Cochran was used to determine the sample size of 190. A multi-stage random sampling, purposive sampling and accidental sampling technique were used to select the respondents. The study revealed that all the social and demographic characteristics of respondents except community had a significant association with respondents’ concurrent usage of herbal and orthodox medicines. It was also observed that 2 in every 10 nursing mothers uses both orthodox and herbal drugs concurrently on their children. The study concluded that 11.05% of respondents concurrently used herbal and orthodox medicines for infant health problems.","PeriodicalId":297503,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131344568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}