Trends of Application, Challenges and Prospects of Filmmaking (In 21st Century Nigeria)

Film is one of the effective tools in the society for abridging the past with the present and projecting tomorrow. As a medium of communication, its assemblages into a whole to encode decipherable ideas respond to the constant variation that other factors in life experience. The processes of making a film, the film itself and what it ought to tackle change with ideas that emerges in the literacy angle, technology and audience response as these issues will propel or project Nigeria's image to the world which in turn begets development. As the 21st century sits on technology and is technologically driven, film-making equally transforms from analogue to digital technology resulting in better quality of products and production. This paper therefore seeks to discuss trends in the application of 21st century technologies in film-making in Nigeria, highlighting its challenges while looking at its prospects. This work draws its theoretical foundation on development media theory and concludes that a film is a canopy of the society's image hence 21st century Nigeria must adopt new ways of adding newness to film production