Guide to Typical Ugandan Pop Video.

Script for a typical Kidandaali (Ugandan pop) romantic music video:

• Boy looks girl in the eyes while clutching his chest to stop himself from singing his heart out; girl’s eyes drop to look at her toes
• Boy lifts girl, staggers a under girl’s weight, editor chips in just in time
• Girl sits in boy’s lap
• Girl rolls eyes pretending to be the world’s last virgin
• Boy hold’s girls boobs (perfectly normal thing, no need for a room)
• Boy chases girl and breaks some sweat even when girl is a tortoise
• Girls hides her attractive great lakes frame behind a twig in an apparent game of hide and seek in a garden – always a garden
• Boy plays ‘I know you are there but I’m as blind as a bat’
• Suddenly, ‘it’s a miracle, boy can see!’. He finds her in her hideout and peeks at her from the other side of the twig, eyes meet, smiles galore e.t.c.
• A scene in a photo studio complete with its usual props is always a consideration (even the great Silver Kyagulanyi accepted to be dragged into one. Why one would want photo studio props for a video is mind boggling)
• Producer keeps script to recycle for next client.

The biggest culprit in recycling video scripts is IMAGE VISION. They will recycle props, the choreography and even the costumes for the choreographers (there’s a particular blue costume that has been used in about three or four of their videos I have seen – there could be more).