We recorded in the church, it didn’t come out well, we recorded another one outside the church, it did not come out well,” he explains laughing.īoth thought an outfit change might help but after filming the second part of the video using a setting different from the first that they got right, the whole thing may have to be trashed again. “There’s a video we’ve recorded three to four times and it hasn’t come out yet. Tools like iMovie, InShot, which he says is “quite lovely”, Canva and Garage Band help complete the production process. Nwosu, also acts as a production assistant. Filming takes long hours, with plenty repetitions to get the synch, lighting and composition right. Anyaegbu tells TechCabal.Īs most content creators can attest to, creating content for Tik Tok can be demanding. “In all these, I saw people’s appreciation for them. James has gathered nearly 26,000 followers and most of his more popular videos include those where he explains or highlights some aspect of Catholic dogma. Since April when he opened his Tik Tok account, Fr. In the barrage of lip-synching, comedy skits, and twerking videos, he did not see the church strongly represented (the #catholic turns up around 500 million videos). Anyaegbu is not new to social media but picked interest in the wildly popular four-year old platform during the pandemic lockdown in April. Anyaegbu was sent to Scotland due to a shortage of Catholic priests in the country, a subject that was in focus in a BBC documentary about both priests released earlier this year and titled Our Fathers.įr. Together with another Nigerian priest, Fr. Just after his second anniversary as a priest, in 2015, he was asked to move to the highlands of Scotland somewhere 100 miles away from Aberdeen. It will take another 12 years of study and nomadic living before he was ordained a priest in 2013. At 11, he joined a minor seminary in Abia state, about four hours from where he was born in Anambra. Anyaegbu already knew he wanted to become a Catholic priest. The comments are filled with Catholics and non-Catholics, proud, and educated on an aspect of the church so small yet elusive, entertained by his dancing.Īt six, Fr. White at Christmas and Easter Purple at Lent Green at what the church calls Ordinary Time and Red at Pentecost. Anyaegbu’s chasuble colour changes four times each time with a teaching in a brief text design showing what seasons and for what occasions they are worn.
However, in the duration of the video, Fr. James Nwachukwu Anyaegbu is dancing to the song, a remixed version comprising ad-libs and a midtempo beat similar to the original track. In one such video, Nigerian Catholic priest, Rev. Canadian-Iraqi singer Ali Gatie’s What If I Told You I Love You is one of many 60-second soundtracks underlying some of Tik Tok’s most viral videos.
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