Part 01 of 03
Ola of Lagos
A property walkthrough carried by a voice Lagos already trusts. Shot handheld and close, so the space reads the way it feels in person.
Watch the film →Sc. 04 — The story
2017 — now
I got into this because somebody had to cover the games.
At Afe Babalola University I was studying computer engineering and serving as Sports Director for the IEEE student chapter. We had a calendar full of fixtures, finals and ceremonies — and nobody to record any of it. So I picked up a camera and covered them myself.
Live sport is a hard place to learn, which is why it teaches quickly. Where to stand. When to hold the shot. That the moment happens once and you either got it or you didn't. By graduation in 2022, the camera had stopped being a favour I was doing the chapter and started being the thing I actually did.
My first paid work was at Urban Living, cutting branded video and promotional campaigns for social. Three years at Yardoak Project followed — construction documentation from groundbreaking to handover, corporate films, motion graphics, and 3D architectural visualisation for client pitches. That is where the drone first went up, and the work changed shape: suddenly I could hand a client the scale of a thing instead of describing it.
Engineering taught me systems, video taught me how to tell a story through every frame.
Since 2025 I have been Creative Lead at Strongmas Group, running the full pipeline for a developer selling luxury property in Lagos — strategy, shoot, edit, grade, delivery. Campaigns at Cowrie Creek and Shoreline Estate. A three-part influencer campaign with Ola of Lagos, Egungun and Ushbebe. Across six years that adds up to more than three hundred projects and campaigns supporting over ₦3.4 billion in property sales.
The job has not really changed since the sports field. Something is happening, it only happens once, and someone has to decide where the camera goes.
NameEmmanuel Elegbe
RoleCreative Lead
BaseLagos, NG