Scriptwriting & Video Direction

Seven days out from Miva’s first convocation, we needed a piece that carried the weight of the moment without a single graduate on screen yet. I wrote it as a shot-by-shot direction document: extreme wide on an empty theatre, one distant light-switch click, a slow push-in on the MC alone in the seats. Aisle lights firing sequentially as he walks, the auditorium waking up around him. Camera rising to reveal the scale. A drone pullback on the final line.

The script specifies frame, movement, lighting behaviour, audio and animation for every beat, so the crew had nothing left to interpret on the day.

Testimonials look easy and aren’t. The skill is getting an unrehearsed answer out of someone who’s nervous, then cutting it so it doesn’t sound coached.

uLesson Tab 2 — siblings who study together. Directed end to end. Rather than shooting two separate testimonials, I built it around the relationship: siblings sharing a tablet, learning together, the product almost incidental to the bond.

Miva — why three students chose us. Six reasons across three students: quality, flexibility, affordability, access, uninterrupted study, and a personal success advisor. Cast for contrast in programme and personality, each line cut short enough to land before the scroll.

Seven pieces. No crew, no budget line, concept to post.

Wrote the script direction and shot angles while someone else operated the camera. A different discipline from self-shooting: briefing, blocking, watching playback, calling the reshoot.

The uLesson Learning Series. A repeatable teaching format built to run indefinitely rather than as a one-off — over 20 episodes, averaging a minute each, across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

The Miva FAQ Series. Admissions questions the team was answering one at a time, turned into short TikToks that answer them at scale.

A format that outlives your attention is worth more than a hit. Both were built so someone else could pick them up and keep running them.

Miva Lagos Study Centre pre-launch, Days 1 and 3. Countdown VO scripted against motion graphics — animated Lagos danfo buses for the roadshow day, b-roll and flyer animations for the masterclass and career fair day. Written to sound like someone excited to see you, not a corporate announcement.

Langtang Community Centre launch. Highlight VO carrying a scholarship announcement from Miva’s founder for indigenes of his hometown. Two jobs in ninety seconds: report the launch, and land the scholarship news without flattening the emotion in it.