Chris RobinsonR&B/ Hip Hop Music Director

Why Chris Robinson?

• The first video I saw in which was under his direction was Nas – I know I can.

• The majority of music I like and prefer are directed by Chris Robinson.

• Growing up in the area and with the people I had around me, the type of music I listened to was constant and often ranged within 2 specific genres Hip-hop and R&B.

• With that the majority of music within these genres where directed by certain people and Chris Robinson was one of them.

• When watching this videos Nas – I can directed by Chris Robinson I am instantly reminded of the movies such as Step- Up, in a sense that the whole attitude of the video is the whole I can attitude, despite being brought up in a rough, run down neighborhood.

Why?

Background Check…• Chris Robinson is a director at Robot Film

Company.(RFC)• Chris Robinson has directed commercials for;

iPod, Coca Cola. Etc. • He also directed the film ATL. http://www.robotfilm.com/directors/chris_robinson

Signature styles

• Angles; In the majority of videos made you can see that Chris Robinson likes to use a lot of angles such as side shots to empathise the beat ,

• 50 Cent ft Neyo – Baby by me,• Amerie – 1 Thing

Signature styles..

• The Movie complex; in Majority of Chris Robinsons music videos, you see that it follows a narrative. That either during the beginning or in between each song a little story breaks out or continues, showing the characteristics of the setting behind the culture of the song.

Erykah Badu – Honey.

50 Cent ft Neyo – Baby by me Alicia Keys – Teenage Love Affair

Busta Rhymes ft Rick James – In the GhettoDMX ft Faith Evans – I miss you

Signature styles…• Cinematography; The Descriptive zoom/close up in of one or

certain objects;In Bigboi ft Cutty – Shutterbug; you have a close up picture of Bigboi’s Drink ‘Black Jack’

In Ameries – 1 Thing; one of the close up images are her jewelry.

Busta Ryhmes ft Rick James – I n the Ghetto; you have a Descriptive zoom of a painting on the wall.

Signature styles…Backgrounds;Chris Robinson has a certain style in which he places and sets he's music videos depending on the type of song it is, like in songs like ‘teenage love affair’ and ‘in the ghetto’ you have backgrounds that empathizes the type of emotion and description in which the little story features involve.

OR

You get the videos that have a simple plain but bold background colour with a lot of graphics or close ups, because the song doesn’t really have a story to narrate.

Signature style…• Movie Style Intros; in the majority of Chris Robinson

directed videos he tends to open with a movie style opening.

Type of Genre…

• From the type of music and research done on Chris Robinson I can see that he does music mainly with in the R&B And Hip- Hop genres.

• Ranging from soulful R&B songs to more upbeat Hip-Hop songs.