Soji Ogunnaike | Freelancer Resume

Soji Ogunnaike Video Marketing Consultant I help brands tell their stories through compelling video content that drives engagement and conversions. C O N TA C T I N F O PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Soji Ogunnaike Lagos, Nigeria. -- SOCIAL - Senior Editor/Animator I was employed as senior editor/animator, where I ensured several episodes of Luventure (popular dating show), Your Choice (popular TV Gameshow) and e360, a lifestyle magazine programme were delivered on time, significantly boosting viewership and engagement. - @sojioguns @sojioguns Soji Ogunnaike @sojioguns REFERENCES Eastend Audioviz (Av.com) Freelancer Editor, Animator and Director I worked on the following TV Shows: The Academy, a TV Reality show, where I was senior editor (2004), Amstel Malta Box Office 1, where I was senior editor/vision mixer (2005), Big Brother Nigeria, where I was Technical Director (2006), Celebrity Takes 2, where I was Post Production supervisor/consultant (2007), Malta Guinness Street Dance Africa, where I was Technical Director and Post Production Supervisor (2008). All these projects were outstanding successes. - 601 Realtime Founder/CEO I led the team to produce TV commercials, TV promos and Documentaries for brands both directly and via their creative agencies. Revenues of the company experienced a minimum year on year increase of 25%. I directed many of the projects by the company and the reel can be found here: http://bit.ly/601realtime 2014-Present Rushing Tap Co-Founder/Chief Creative Officer From inception I have ensured Rushing Tap helps brands to create high value video content to achieve their goals and also forayed into creating original content like Plus 234, a drama series and POV, a short form series. In 2022 I led Rushing Tap to enter a strategic partnership with POV Studios to increase capacity, raising over $1 million to build Rushing Tap Studios with 3 soundstages and equipment for hire. With my leadership, Rushing Tap produced the award winning TV Quizshow Cowbellpedia in 2023 as well as Nigeria's first studio-based drama series set in a supermarket called "Checkout". The company reel can be found here: Rushing Tap Reel E D U C AT I O N- University of Lagos BSc Applied Physics & Electronics SKILLS AND EXPERTIZE Video Editing ★★★★★ Video Strategy ★★★★★ Producing ★★★★★ Video Marketing ★★★★★ Directing ★★★★★ Social Media ★★★★★ N O TA B L E P R O J E C T S COCACOLA BELIEVE AND WIN PROMO Responsibility: Producer. Details: Rushing Tap was approached by Towncriers, the experiential marketing agency for Cocacola in Nigeria to create interesting content out of the weekly draws for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. I was the producer on this project and I turned a meeting room in the Cocacola Nigeria Office into a mini studio. In this room, the set was built and the draws were shot multicam and streamed live. Every week's video experienced a minimum of 150,000 views on Youtube, giving the promo massive reach and engagement. View work: Cocacola Believe and Win COWBELLPEDIA TV QUIZ GAMESHOW Responsibility: Show redesign, Producer Details: Rushing Tap won a bid amongst the best production companies in Nigeria to become the official production partner for Cowbellpedia, which had run for 8 years and took a break due to COVID19. Promasidor decided to revive the Gameshow, but needed it to be completely overhauled from the game mechanics, set design and overall outlook. I led the team to redesign the game dynamics, converting it from just a Mathematics Quiz show to include Sciences and General knowledge. I also partnered with a leading set design company to create a modern set and partnered with a Quiz Game software company in Netherlands to create custom software to drive the games. I also led the team to handle the logistics, from organising a remote computer based exam to shortlist the final 132 contestants, to transporting the students to Lagos and being in charge of their welfare. The resultant show became the most watched season since inception of Cowbellpedia and it won the award for the best brand sponsored reality show at the Brand Communicator Awards. View work: Cowbellpedia CHECKOUT DRAMA SERIES Responsibility: Creator, Producer, Director Details: Checkout is a dramedy set entirely in a supermarket with elements of everything amazing, tears, laughter, anger and joy. I had created this series in 2015 and tried partnering with a supermarket chain to use one of its locations as a set. Unfortunately that did not work out and in 2023 I pitched the idea to Multichoice which led to Rushing Tap being commissioned to produce 120 episodes of the show. It became the first dully studio-based drama series set in a supermarket in Nigeria. The show went on to be the first commissioned show by Multichoice Nigeria to get more than 5 brand sponsors before airing. The show enjoyed tremendous success and viewers loved every episode. It has been slated for re-runs on Africa Magic channels. View work: Checkout S TA R R A D L E R C A M PA I G N Responsibility: Director of the TVC as well as creation of bite sized video material for social media. Details: Rushing Tap was briefed by the creative agency to do a treatment for the TV Commercial and suggest ways of creating short videos for social media. I wrote the treatment and directed the TV Commercial shoot, while factoring in the several short content that would be edited out of the long TVC. View work: Star Radler TVC AWA R D S & R E C O G N I T I O N S ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Mention in an article as the youngest Technical Director in the BigBrother Nigeria team (Big Brother magazine, 2006) Producer of the Year (finalist) - The Future Awards 2007 Producer of the Year (finalist) - The Future Awards 2008 Producer of the Year (finalist) - The Future Awards 2009 Article on Soji Ogunnaike tagged “Realtime Brilliance” in True Lovemagazine December 2008 edition. Best Visual Effects for “The Figurine” – AMAA Awards 2010 Best Landscape picture at the Nigeria Photography Awards, 2011 Finalist, Best Short Film at the Afrinolly Short Film competition 2013 Winner, Best Film, Best cinematography (When Fishes Drown) at the In-Short Film festival, Lagos 2013 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ● Weekly videos on Youtube that teach brands tips and tricks to improve their Video Marketing Strategy: Can be watched here: Youtube Channel