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Out here on the perimeter
Posted by nabil in Company Information, Site News on March 26th, 2010
We’ve added some new movies (5) and are adding more this week, we appreciate everyone that keeps checking back for new titles, at the moment we get them in bursts but as soon as we get a regular stream we’ll start pushing out a weekly newsletter with new listings. We are happy to announce that the upcoming batch of programmes will also include two tv shows each of which will run to about 20 episodes, we think this is a great way to tell a story as it lets the producer’s develop the characters in greater depth. We’ll definitely be on the lookout for more.
Having data is almost like having a good report just before you hand it over to your parents who will scrutinize it with a fine tooth comb except for two crucial differences a) data is constantly evolving and not always for the better b) This time we’re the ones poring over performance. Combined these differences give checking our results an exhilaration I doubt our parents had looking through our rather uniform results, now we can change stuff and get immediate feedback as to what works and what doesn’t which greatly helps our quest to make all this better.
One happy side effect we’ve noticed is that we’re much less inclined to slack off with these numbers glaring at us from across the screen, not that we needed motivation but every little helps. This tends to manifest in very odd behaviour no doubt spurred on by a blood/coffee ratio that cannot possibly be healthy. This ranges from the trivial but excruciating act of forgetting to eat proper food to the more catastrophic lapses in judgement which we’ll conveniently leave out of print 
Just a little further in
Posted by nabil in Company Information on March 13th, 2010
It’s been a week since we entered into the fray. A week wrought with excitement and more than a little trepidation where everything came together and we finally gave you something moderately useful. We are still toiling away at it so have no fear this is only the first act, we’ve got our hands on a host of films which we’re in the process of uploading and hope you’ll be checking into the site as we add them. We asked for comments last week and got back quite a few detailed comments and suggestions so as always we’re quite thankful, you know who you are!
Then there were the surprises, it turns out that we’re also attracting viewers from places we didn’t expect, Austria, India, Italy and Thailand all contributed significant traffic this week, we’re quite pleased with this development, we don’t know who you are but we hope you enjoyed the movies, more are definitely on the way and we look forward to your support.
So this coming week we’re headed to BOBTV in Abuja with our shiny new service to sell it to the hundreds of producers that will be in attendance. We’re looking forward to a decent haul and will convert them one by one if we have to just so we can enhance your viewing pleasure…enjoy.
And so we begin…
Posted by nabil in Company Information, Site News on March 3rd, 2010
I think they sold us a lie, they kept saying that once we were done with school we would be done with tests, never again to endure the torture of wondering if you were good enough. No, the tests just got longer and now the results are all so fuzzy most of the time you just have to keep going and hope you’re in headed in generally the right direction. So it is with us, after months toiling away we finally have a working model to show you – our examiners so to speak.
If you head on to www.lumoe.com you will find a number of Nigerian movies which depending on your internet connection should play as if you had the disc with you. This is at no cost to you and it’s completely legal (we have documents!) so we hope you will work your way through the catalogue which over the course of the next few weeks we will be adding more movies and fingers crossed a few TV shows as well. As it’s a work in progress we would deeply appreciate comments from you, what you like/didn’t like, features you would like to see and any other way we could make it better. By the way we’re still looking for more films and adverts so if you happen to know of any producers or even advertisers that would be interested in what we’re doing please send them our way. We’re also going to be at BOBTV in Abuja later this month so if you happen to have a free afternoon come down to our stand and we’ll let you have a look at some of our upcoming projects. Later.
When it’s all explicitly implicit
Posted by nabil in Company Information on November 3rd, 2009
Many weeks have passed and I’m sure you’re wondering what’s happened to us, maybe not. As usual we’ve been slaving away recording victories along the way interspersed with the occasional setback, all the while doggedly moving to our intended destination. I believe a belated happy Sallah and Independence are due, both occasions resulting in much merriment and days spent eating more than is probably healthy.
So since last time, we managed to get our hands on the fabled producer’s agreement which we need to get (legally) all those wonderful films we love to watch, a masterpiece of legal drafting as our frazzled lawyer quickly points out. We’ve sent it out to a few of the producers and have had positive feedback so we should be uploading their films and finally getting this show on the road. Now if you’ve been following we’ve been trading friendly threats with our lawyer over this issue but his has since been resolved and we’ve promised him a fruit basket soon.
Last week was the Abuja Film Festival where we rubbed shoulders with many talented people all the while trying to hide exactly how star struck we were. This was further compounded once they we got to the discussion panel where we sweated enough bricks to build our as yet uncompleted office. This was a great opportunity for us and we were able to explain what it is we’re trying to achieve. The funny thing is it hit me how far we’ve come with this in terms of how we can help proliferate Nigerian content across the world and also how so many people we come across not only understand but are extremely enthused by it. I’m very thankful for the enthusiasm everyone shows for Lumoe and only serves as a promise that we’re onto something everyone will like as well as being ample motivation for seeing this through. I hope this will be our own modest contribution towards making life better for everyone.
Lastly this wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Mr. Fidelis Duker and his colleagues at the Abuja International Film Festival without whom it would not have been possible as well as for inviting us to speak there. Their support and guidance has been of tremendous importance to us and we will be sure to snag their films onto the site for your viewing pleasure. Later