Huw Collingbourne is heroically exhuming the videos we did together for the cover discs on PC Plus. I really can't describe this one any better than Huw does. "This was our fabulously wonderful pop video Heavy Metal tribute to Village People. Accompanied by my trusty companion and one-time Features Editor, Mary Branscombe (seen here in hard hat and whiskers), we recreated all that was best about the 1970s music scene."

Production notes: we got some more mileage out of the stick-on moustache, complete with Simon's plaid shirt and Huw's leather jacket.
* Well, Huw played the biker because he was already wearing the leather jacket...
Heavy Metal Village People Real Media (1.75MB) streaming
Heavy Metal Village People Real Media (1.75MB) non-streaming download - better quality

Production notes: we got some more mileage out of the stick-on moustache, complete with Simon's plaid shirt and Huw's leather jacket.
* Well, Huw played the biker because he was already wearing the leather jacket...
Heavy Metal Village People Real Media (1.75MB) streaming
Heavy Metal Village People Real Media (1.75MB) non-streaming download - better quality
This has "boingboing" written all over it, surely?
Date: 2005-07-12 02:55 pm (UTC)Re: This has "boingboing" written all over it, surely?
Date: 2005-07-12 04:18 pm (UTC)I have a full set of all the videos (second generation VHS) - as does Huw, but I don't think he has the time to recapure them. And as Simon says, 'think of Huw's poor server'. I might try copying the videos to DVD to show friends more easily ;-)
Re: This has "boingboing" written all over it, surely?
Date: 2005-07-12 09:06 pm (UTC)Re: This has "boingboing" written all over it, surely?
Date: 2005-08-01 06:58 pm (UTC)If anyone wants to put this vid wherever you want to put it, go ahead. If you can put a link back to the Rants and Raves web site that would be super nice :-)
As for better quality? You can get slightly better quality by taking the vids straight from the CDs or VHS (which Mary has, I believe). Otherwise unless our fab director, Wendy, has kept the originals (which I very much doubt), that's all that remains to posterity....
btw, I still have a few other pretty fab vids featuring Mary in a variety of exciting roles. When I have the time, I shall unleash a few more.
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Date: 2005-07-14 07:38 pm (UTC)