Robbie Williams Re-make

 

On Friday the 2nd when we met Pete Fraser and Jake, in the afternoon we used the hour recreating the music video of Robbie Williams 'Let me entertain you'. We used face paint to look like Robbie himself in his video and we took turns being different people in the video. There were two guitarists, two backing singers and one drummer as well as one person being Robbie the main singer. It was really fun to paint on the 'mask' and perform with others in the group. We also had about seven camera people who either worked the main camera or others. The main camera focused on the main singer and the side cameras focused on the guitarists, drummer and backing singers.

We learnt a lot from this task because we have previously done little editing tasks that has helped u develop our skills where as this task really helped us with our filming as we learnt new ideas on how to film great footage by techniques actual directors use. For example we used spinning chairs to film, one person sat on the chair and held the camera in a still position and another person pulled the chair around the room and the performance area, this gave us really good and smooth footage because it wasn't jittery and looked professional.

 

We also learnt about performing, it seemed easy to start with but we then realised how much effort you need to put into the performing to make it look good and that the whole group/band need to put in the same amount of effort because if one person puts in more effort this makes the rest of the group look less professional. This helped our group for our task because we are thinking of including performance in our video so when it comes to filming, we will have these little tips to make our video look good and like any other successful videos.

Below is the video that we re-created and the face makeup used, it was detailed but looked basic so we created this on the faces that were in the video. Also shown below are images we took to show our makeup.

 

I also took some photos of what the hall looked like, we made the lighting so everyone on 'stage' could be seen and it made the performance look even better. This will help us when performing ours to make our location look realistic.

 

 

 

These photos are of one of the performances we did. I took part in this one and was a backing singer, now I realise how much effort is needed from every position on stage to make it look professional.