New music festival category seeks to boost story telling in film
Maralal Primary School makes a Samburu dance presentation during the Kenya National Music Festival at Masinde Muliro University on July 12, 2017. The organisers want to promote the African theme. PHOTO | ANTHONY NJAGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The first films were on Thursday screened under the category “Music for Film” at Masinde Muliro University.
The Kenya National Music Festival has introduced a new category in which students produce short videos on how music can be used to enhance scenes and prop a story in a film.
The first films were on Thursday screened under the category “Music for Film” at Masinde Muliro University where this year’s festival is being held.
The genre allows participants to record and edit original stories with an African theme.
AFRICANISM
University of Nairobi’s Simeon Peter Otieno, who coordinated the concept, said: “Music for Film is conceptualised on the precept that local films are deficient of music and sound that reflect the African idiom.
"This category embraces composition of music and incidental sound to capture desired mood in film and sound track.”
DISQUALIFIED
Schools that pioneered this category are Alliance Girls, St Anne’s Gituba Girls, Kiambu High, State House Girls, Kayole One Primary, Precious Blood Kagwe, Kamundura Girls, Moi Kamangu Girls, Moi High School Kabartonjo, Nasoko Girls, Gathirimu Girls and St Michael Primary.
Meanwhile, four schools were disqualified for presenting similar verses.
The affected schools were Karatina EDC and Kakamega ECD.
Siana Boarding Primary and Chemilil Sugar Academy suffered a similar fate for presenting the same poem.
