Film: The Diamond Ring
Genre: Drama/ Thriller
Director: Tade Ogidan
Producer: Ojiofor Ezeanyachi
Script writer: Tade Ogidan
Main casts: Teju Gbade- Oyelakin, Richard Mofe Damijo, Sola Sobowale, Bimbo Akintola
Locations: London-England and Lagos- Nigeria.
Language: English and Yoruba
Budget: 4.5 Million
Release date: 1998
Plot:
The film begins with a scene where Chidi (Teju Gbade) is seriously ill, his parents take him to different hospitals in and outside the country and he still does not get well. His aunty arrives on a certain day and it is there she senses (spiritually) that Chidi has offended a spirit but she can not tell them what he has done or else he would die. Chidi refuses to tell them; he first has a flashback of a grave and then another flashback about entering into the university.
The school request that parents should fill a guarantee form but the father, Chief Dike(Richard Mofe Damijo) refuses and keeps going on about how him and his wife are very busy with their business schedule and so are not able to make out time to visit the school for the guarantee form.
When Chidi arrives school, he is so happy to be free from his parents and then starts to party with his friend, Lammy. Lammy begins to cajole him into joining XG, a very popular cult in their school. Seeing Chidi’s reluctance, Lammy keeps coaxing him by telling him that Bimbo, Lammy’s female friend is continuously harassed by her lecturers until he eventually compromises. When he finally agrees, he has to undergo some tests to join and become a worthy member of the cult. One of these tests was to go to a grave and steal jewelry from a corpse. They successfully steal clothes and jewelry from the corpse. This act of exhumation is the beginning of the predicament.
The theft of the jewelry is followed by severe spiritual attacks with the “victim” of the theft repeatedly appearing to Chidi to return the stolen ring; meanwhile, the ring had been sold and was at that time, in London.
The situation began to get a lot more worse as the members of the group that was involved in the theft began to die one after the other.
All the while, Chidi hadn’t even told his parents about the situation. It is until Lammy and Bimbo die in an automobile crash that Chidi finally owns up to his parents about all the occurrences.
At this point, Gladys, the lady who was the theft “victim” materializes in the house and demands for the ring. All investigation then points to the fact that the ring was in London and Chidi’s father had to travel all the way to London to get the ring which had already been given to a woman by her husband as a gift. It was very difficult to get the ring because the man’s marriage was threatened but the ring was eventually returned. At this time, Chidi was already dying but the ring was recovered and returned in time and so, Chidi survived.

FINALE
This motion picture depicts the way some families are run in which the parents have very little or no time for their children. This usually results in their children going astray and becoming wayward and truant. The movie also shows how collapsed and degenerated many public institutions are. Finally, the song is also a warning to parents to pay more attention to their children as there is always a propensity for children to be influenced.
Camera angle: all the camera angles were used
Lighting: good lighting was used at most points in the movie

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The grave side was shot at two locations a grave yard and the second was an uncompleted building place the scene where they were descending down into the grave .

PRODUCTION PROCESS
It took the script writer two full weeks without disturbance to write the script. The whole production of the film lasted for a year.
Inspiration: the ills happening in the society and tertiary institutions in Nigeria. One other one is the script writer’s younger brother had a similar experience.
Flaws: there was a scene in the film where the line mike was showing and the lighting was bad at some point because shadows were showing at some point.
Sub cast: Teju was not the original cast for the role of Chidi, he was picked from the school (University of Lagos), he was very reluctant in acting but the director felt Teju’s face best fitted the character. The original cast was old for the role.
Challenges: it was difficult in getting foreign characters and the London scenes happened in a day.