Meet Director TEMITOPE O. aka Dir OT
Temitope O. Shobulo better known as Director OT was born
on October 10th, 1986 in Lagos, Nigeria, and is of Togolese and
Ghanaian descent.
He
grew up in Lagos and moved to South Africa in a bid to further his
passion in photography and film/video directing. Noted for directing
high-budget, visually distinctive videos for both popular and upcoming
artists like MCKAY, BIGSLIM BANDIT, BODIBAG etc. His work has been
creatively recognized in Cape town South Africa.
As
a child Temitope was very creative and loved art works, action movies
and hip-hop musicals – Rambo, Michael Jackson, Usher Raymond & Diddy
were his favorites. He attended technical courses in Nigeria and
studied film at SAE institute Cape Town, South Africa after which he
founded His own label and production company named “Stomp Media
Expression & Stomp Entertainment” to follow his dream as a record
label owner and Music video director.
Dir.
OT started directing Music Videos late 2017. His first stint was as a
camera assistant on a video shoot for South African based Nigerian
hip-hop artist Mckay. The music video project was for a song Glory which
was directed by Ramanda. He later partnered with MCKAY to direct and
shoot several of his projects, such as McKay’s - Lil Momma, K, Neila’s
Interlude, McKay – 1, No Time, McKay and Save My Soul.
His
skills include Film and Video Directing, Writing original creative
concepts for music video, Cinematography and Lighting. After directing a
couple of music videos, for Mckay, Dir. OT was given the opportunity to
direct music videos for other hip-hop and commercial artists like
Bodibag and Bigslim bandit with that his career fully ticked off as a
video Director.
He is currently working on more creative projects including His first feature film which he hopes to release later this year.
You can connect with Director OT on his INSTAGRAM @dir.ot
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