4x4 confident of retaining best video title at Vodafone 4syte Music Video Awards
Ghanaian hiplife group 4×4 insist they have clicked into gear to win their second consecutive overall best video at the 2011 Vodafone 4syte Music Video Awards on Saturday November 19.
The group made up of Sylvanus Dodji Jeoffrey (Captain Planet) Raphael Edem Avornyo (Coded) and Prince Tamakloe (Fresh Prince), stole the show last year where they grabbed awards in four categories including the best video award with their hit track ‘Fresh One’.
They are back in the hat this year after they were nominated in four categories which includes: Best group video, Overall best video, Best Photograhy and Best Editing with their emerging hit track ‘waist and power”.
But they must fend off competition from the likes of Asem, Okyeame Kwame, Obuor, R 2 Bees, Jay Ghartey, Becca and Bra Kevin Beat for the top-most award.
But the popular group claim they have done enough to win it for the second time of asking.
Coded said on the Rundown show on Wednesday night: “We respect our opponent in the group but we believe our video is top of the hill and deserve to win the ultimate”
“We’re gunning for the award in the four categories that we have been nominated for. It wasn’t easy putting that together but if you watched our last track, it was solid and that helped us to win”
Another member of the group Captain planet also retorted: “We always want to give our fans the best because they deserve the best”
“And that is why we want them to continue voting for us. The song is doing well in the market. We have expert who work on our videos and that’s why we have churned out such wonderful videos in the past”
The nice-looking Fresh Prince couldn’t be left out of the exciting discussion and chipped: “ We want our fans to come in numbers and support us because we’re positive of winning more awards at the venue”
“We love and respect them and we’ll always give them the best”
This year’s edition, which will celebrate the top music videos of last year, has over 20 categories and is divided into two main categories. The first category which include Best Group Video (BG), Best Choreography (BC), Best Hiplife Video (BHP), Best Highlife Video (BH), Best Reggae Video (BR), Best Female Video (BF), Best Male Video (BM), Best Collaboration (BC), Discovery of the Year (DO), Best Story Line (BS), Overall Best Video (OB), Best African Act (BA), and Best Hip hop Video (BHHP) will be judged solely by the public through voting by texting the ‘name’ and the abbreviation of the category of the artiste to short code 1738 across all networks.
The remaining categories; Best Photography, Best Directed, Best Special Effects and Best Editing will be decided by a four-member distinguished judging panel comprising Ivan Quashigah, CEO of Farmhouse Productions, Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Movie Producer and Director, Ramesh Jai, CEO of Apex Advertising and Ignace Hego Kwame, CEO of 4syte.
