The Saturdays’ Ego by Mike&Robin
Friday, 27. November 2009 - 9:30 am
For this first video at their new home Mrs Grey (formerly Just Another Film Company), Mike Simpson and Robin van Calcar’s brief from commissioner Ross Anderson was to portray The Saturdays as superheroes. The duo gave the band ‘superpowers to clean up the streets of Micropolis’ and spy on their arch enemy Mr X.
It was shot on a soundstage at Pinewood so the production has blockbuster-scale, and with 1st AD Rawden Defresnes marshalling two camera crews, the team managed to schedule a two-day idea into a single day shoot.
The Saturdays
Ego (Polydor)
Production Company: Mrs Grey
Producer: Richard A Moore
DoP: August Jacobssen
Representation: Debs @ Y-I London
2nd Unit DoP: Carl Burke
1st A.D: Rawden Defresnes
Art Director: Nathan Parker
Band Stylist: Robert Morrison
Post Supervisor: Brendan McNamee
Colourist: Gwyn Evans at The Hat Factory
VFX/Compositor: Robert Chandler
3D/Maya: Yohan Nebbout
VFX: Christian Schega
3DS Max: Sebastien Burdon
Offline/Editor: Max at Cut + Run
Commissioner: Ross Anderson
Watch: Quicktime Movie
28. November 2009 - 3:46 pm
Good grief – the girls barely move. They look like they’ve been dropped into position from above and warned under pain of death not to break the rigid framing. Never has a superhero theme seemed so lifeless and come-inducing…
Not since Batman and Robin anyways.
28. November 2009 - 3:46 pm
Good grief – the girls barely move. They look like they’ve been dropped into position from above and warned under pain of death not to break the rigid framing. Never has a superhero theme seemed so lifeless and coma-inducing…
Not since Batman and Robin anyways.
28. November 2009 - 3:49 pm
Whoops! Apologies for the double posting. I hastily tried to correct my mistyping…And failed.
And no, it wasn’t a Freudian slip!
2. December 2009 - 3:54 pm
Perhaps you would have prefered if they were hoisted around on wires for the duration? Or maybe if they did a naff litte Black Lace routine?
Personally I feel any choreography would have been overkill, the song, high end production design, narrative, good cinematography and concept are enough to carry the video.
I think it would have been easy to go overboard with this but the simplicity adds to the impact rather than detracts from it.
Well done!