Olateju Famiyesin

10/12/2025

Day 2 of doing something in After Effects so I don’t forget what I learnt in Film School.

Merry Christmas Keeds✌🏾

09/12/2025

Day 1 of creating something in AE every single day for the rest of the year before I forget what I learnt in film school

Starting simple… Tell your STORYS🤗

08/12/2025

Hi, my name is Teju, and… this is my journal entry for my last week in film school🥹🎥

My last week in film school… honestly, CHAOS & BEAUTIFUL is the best way to describe it.

Monday started hilariously chaotic. I got to the bus stop and there were no buses. None. Just a crowd of tired people and Lagos sun. When a bus finally showed up almost 30 minutes later, I had to fight my way in. And the funniest part? The “me” from week one of film school would have screamed. But here I was, doing it anyway. Growth in strange places, I guess😩

I got to school, settled into class, and jumped straight into making corrections on our trailer and subtitles. I planned to go home that night but editing carried us till about 10 p.m, and I eventually had to order a ride I didn’t budget for. That was when real life and film school started to blend into one😪

Tuesday was our cinema screening for editors, actors, producers, directors, and cinematographers. I came straight from home, packed a small overnight bag, and headed to the cinema. The film I worked on BLUR screened first, and I almost stopped breathing. Watching something you worked on for weeks play on a huge screen? Unreal. We forgot to embed our subtitles during export tho, so that was our main note, but honestly, seeing the film come alive overshadowed everything else.

We watched all three films. They were incredible. But ours? I’m biased, I was emotional. We actually did that.

Tuesday melted into Wednesday because I stayed in school overnight, still working on subtitles and wrapping up loose ends. Wednesday morning, we had our final class on the business of editing. We also hosted a little class hangout with our HOD and TA. It was half lesson, half party, and fully wholesome.

And listen… I joked about having a “squash the beef” session, but these people took it seriously. I didn’t expect everyone to suddenly bring their grievances, almost quarter of the class😪 had a beef with me. I apologized, explained my side, laughed at myself, laughed with them… it was healing and chaotic at the same time.

08/12/2025

Ye is short form for Yewande😊

05/12/2025

Ngl, I loved the high and the pressure that came with film school, I mostly live a slow-paced lifestyle so the intensity of film school was a challenge I was willing to take on.

Loved every minute of film school. Absolutely worthwhile✨

01/12/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎄

29/11/2025

A half DIML
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28/11/2025

Can’t believe I(we) made it this far🥹- Week 6-10 lezzzzzzgooooooooo🥳

Hi, my name is Teju… and we’ve officially entered the “no turning back” part of film school (no jokes🙂)
If Week 1–5 stretched me, Weeks 6–10 tied me into a pretzel and told me to breathe 😭

WEEK 6
This was when we officially started planning our final film, the big project every student must complete before graduation.
We were grouped into full production teams with people from other departments- directing, producing, cinematography, acting, scriptwriting, art direction, and sound. And one thing they never stop preaching in film school is:
“Collaboration is very important, it is what will save you in this industry.”

My team was assigned a film titled “Blur: More Than Just a Robbery.”
At first… it was chaos.
Our pitch was terrible, the feedback was heartbreaking, and there was gbas gbos everywhere, creative disagreements, leadership problems, money arguments, you name it.

The school gave us a budget, but we still had to contribute more. And people started fighting over money before we even fixed our story/film pitch 😭
It was wild.

WEEK 7
We had a test shoot for the robbery scene. We screened it in class, and they finished us.
“What is this angle?”
“Where is the close-up?”
“Why is this shot here?”
“Remove this entirely.”

We went back to the drawing board… again.
Meanwhile, serious pre-production had already begun, auditions, casting, script breakdowns, location scouting, team meetings.
Everything was moving at the speed of light.

WEEK 8- PRODUCTION
My team shot for two days in Ikorodu.
Accommodation and location were provided, and from what I heard, it was fun, because I didn’t go.
Two other team members went to represent post-production as DIT’s

Once production ended, the film entered post-production…
And that has been my entire life since then😩

WEEK 9- POST-PRODUCTION MADNESS
Editing.
Corrections.
Screening.
Feedback.
Fixing it again.
Screening it again.
Starting over again.

*Continued in comments*

18/11/2025

05/11/2025

Very not aesthetic but facts still!

Let your creativity shine through your edits ✨

03/11/2025

Learnt a lot by leading a team in church and it’s an experience I’m always grateful for.