Chale Wote Festival
An Official Film for the Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Pre-production
TODO: Six weeks of location scouts through James Town with the festival curators. We built a shot-list around seven artist portraits and four community sequences, then scheduled the three-day shoot around the festival programme. A local fixer-researcher joined the crew to navigate access and translation.
Production
TODO: Shot over three consecutive days on ARRI ALEXA Mini LF with vintage Leica glass for the portraiture sequences and a DJI Ronin RS3 Pro for crowd movement. All audio recorded double-system — Lectrosonics wireless lapel for interviews, a Sennheiser MKH 416 for ambience. Zero lighting on exteriors; internal bounce cards only.
Post-production
TODO: Offline edit in DaVinci Resolve 18.6; online at 4K DCI. Colour grade built around the golden-hour palette of James Town — high contrast, rich earth tones, skin rendered without the "Instagram filter" warmth common in festival films. Original score composed and recorded by an Accra-based quartet.
Delivery
TODO: Delivered a 22-minute documentary, a four-minute festival trailer, and 12 two-minute portrait shorts for social media. All assets delivered in DCP, ProRes 4444 and H.264 web-optimised formats.
TODO: The documentary premiered at the festival closing event to an audience of 1 200 and was screened at two international film festivals in the following three months. The festival trailer reached 2.1 million views on YouTube within 30 days of upload. The portrait shorts were picked up by three media publications as editorial content.
- Director
- NxtCre8tives
- Director of Photography
- NxtCre8tives
- Editor
- NxtCre8tives
- Original Score
- NxtCre8tives
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