A Nigerian graphic designer, Louisa Jlo, has taken to her Twitter page to call out Nollywood actor cum director Ramsey Nouah over unpaid services for Living in Bondage movie, which the actor directed.
According to the young lady, who uses the Twitter handle @louisajlo, she was contracted by the media director attached to the project to work on graphic designs for the set and promotion of the actor’s Living in Bondage movie in 2018. She also claimed that their agreement was reached verbally and no paperwork was done to document their discussions.
Louisa, however, said that she requested for a down payment and that the media director at the time told her that the budget for the movie had not yet been approved and that she would be paid once it was.
The young lady said that she continued working on the project despite having a full-time job at the time. She said she was given a long list of things to design and that she designed them from scratch using her initiative because there was no brief.
According to Louisa Jlo, the media director later informed her that he was fired from the project and that the project will not be using her work. She said all her attempts to get compensated was futile.
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Louisa said she was hurt about all her wasted effort and was surprised to see that her designs, which were supposedly discarded were used in the movie. Apparently, she only found out a few days ago after watching the movie, presumably for the first time.
She called on the Twitter community to retweet her tweets as she wanted to be paid for her services.
Read her tweets below:
Dear Twitter, I said I will make a thread. So I will.
In 2018, I was contacted to work as the graphic designer for the ‘Living in Bondage’ movie. I was very excited as I had never been on a big project like that before hence I knew nothing and did nothing related to paperwork.— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
I just accepted the job and started working straight away. The only thing I remember requesting was a down payment. But the then media director pleaded that the budget was yet to be approved but I shouldn’t worry. As soon as it is. He will avail me some funds towards my charge.
— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
I agreed, and continued working. I had a full time job so I would from work go to the hotel where the crew members were lodging to work. There I saw Ramsey Nouah who was the director of the film. I was given a long list of things I’d need to design but there was no brief.
— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
I started designing majority of the graphics from scratch using only my initiative. They wanted a cult symbol, company logos, a blog page design, an Instagram page for Nnamdi, a photoshop of him in Nysc uniform, custom license plates and a lot of other stuff.
— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
I started with the cult symbol and the pictures below shows the progression. This is because, as there was no brief, they kept making changes constantly, kept saying what they didn’t like etc. Most of these feedbacks were from Ramsey and the producer Chris Odeh pic.twitter.com/MSYTEMcbDU
— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
They eventually showed likeness for the 4th design. I really felt good. Cos it felt like I was making a huge progress. I continued working on their requests, having sleepless nights and when it came to money, I’d be told they’re still having meetings concerning that. I continued
— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
Then it came down to designing the company logos for the movie and after I sent in my designs, I was told they weren’t good enough. I accepted and kept working until the media director came to me with a shocking news that I shouldn’t work on the company logos again
— Louisajlo (@louisajlo) June 16, 2020
And that the powers above (the superior crew) had Contacted someone from Abuja to do them. I was sad but I accepted. So I asked him what about the rest, he said of course I can continue with the rest. I said okay. In addition to this up and down system,
