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Rockstar (2000) Online

Rockstar (2000) Online
2000 Douglas Adams Polly Jane Rocket Adams John Cleese Douglas Adams
Original Title :
Rockstar
Genre :
Creative Work / Short / Music
Year :
2000
Directror :
Douglas Adams
Cast :
Douglas Adams,Polly Jane Rocket Adams,John Cleese
Type :
Creative Work
Time :
4min
Rating :
6.4/10

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Rockstar (2000) Online

Douglas Adams own words: "In November (1999) Apple brought together a bunch of people under its AppleMaster program and taught us to use their new digital video editing stuff - the new iMac DV with Firewire ports and bundled iMovie software. (It's a very simple-to-use program that works like a cut and paste word processor for digital video at broadcast quality. It's pretty amazing stuff.) We each had to make our own video as part of the class. I made a kind of rock video, based on a song by my friend Margo Buchanan. Margo is a singer and songwriter who mostly works as a session singer but has one of the most amazing voices I know. She wrote it along with Miles Waters and her husband Wix. Wix is a very old friend of mine who had the same piano teacher as me at school, but it worked rather better for him than for me, and he was for years Paul McCartney's keyboard player. He also did the music for Starship Titanic. The guitarist on the track is the great Robbie McIntosh. Buy his acoustic...
Credited cast:
Douglas Adams Douglas Adams - Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Polly Jane Rocket Adams Polly Jane Rocket Adams - Rockstar
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Cleese John Cleese - Interviewer in lounge

During a two-day creative workshop at Apple featuring iMovie and the iMac DV, kids and AppleMasters showed their stuff, creating and editing original digital movies. Douglas Adams' offering featured his daughter Polly in the title role of his friend Margo Buchanan's track "Rockstar". John Cleese (also on the Apple iMovie workshop) makes a cameo. Margo later performed the song at Adams' memorial service in London.


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Ddilonyne

Ddilonyne

In November 1999 Apple brought together a bunch of people under its AppleMaster program and taught them to use their new digital video editing stuff – the new iMac DV with Firewire ports and bundled iMovie software. Among them were Douglas Adams, Gregory Hines and Michael Nesmith.

"Rockstar" was filmed partly in Douglas Adams home in Santa Barbara, and partly at the Santa Barbara Zoo. It features his daughter Polly miming to a song performed by Douglas friend Margo Buchanan, who also wrote the song with Miles Waters and her husband Wix. Guitarist on the track is Robbie McIntosh.

The segment with John Cleese was filmed in the Apple building lounge.
Faegal

Faegal

Basically a home video shot by a loving father featuring his daughter miming to a song. The video was made by Douglas to demonstrate what you can do with the new stuff from Apple. His friend Margo Buchanan sang the song, which is excellent, catching and, in the light of Douglas' death only a year later, a bit sad. Cool touch by Douglas, also, to have John Cleese in it as well, but he doesn't do anything funny. Unless you consider John's huge beer belly funny.

All in all, a nice home video with an excellent song.

You will need QuickTime to see it.
Brazil

Brazil

"Rockstar" is a 3.5-minute music video from over 15 years ago written and directed by famous writer Douglas Adams only shortly before his untimely death. The rock star is played by his daughter Polly Jane and John Cleese has a small cameo as well. But apart from the cast and man who made this movie, there is nothing too special about it. The song is okay at best, mildly catchy, and a bit too generic a pop song for my taste, has basically nothing to do with rock music other than the title. The video looks amateurish for the most part and I cannot appreciate it, even if these looks were possibly intended as a creative decision. So yeah, overall only worth checking out for the very biggest Douglas Adams fans. I give it a thumbs down.