That's something I've been looking in to; it was always great on RW.Originally Posted by the16henry16
great idea i think and when the robot enters maybe try to get a deep voice to say the name
Get John to give the bloke of RW an email to ask him:
stuart@activatetv.co.uk
I did this for the 2012 UK FW Champs.That's something I've been looking in to; it was always great on RW.great idea i think and when the robot enters maybe try to get a deep voice to say the name
Get John to give the bloke of RW an email to ask him:
stuart@activatetv.co.uk
I like the interview part, but like in Robot Wars it will be hit or miss. Were you get team's with great personality like The Plunderbird team or Sumpthing with the Captain Jack Sparrow look alikethen you get people who look and sound awkward on camera.
But to me what made Robot Wars great was not just the roboteers and there robots, but the House Robots they had personality and they were villains that you love and if one on the roboteers take down the House Robots, they become hero's, and they can develop rivalry like Panic Attack and Shunt.
That's all I want to say but I think the interviews and House Robots will get people involved and entertain. I like to add more game types like pinball and sumo or Inferno Insurrection match with Ramrombit and Nemesis
The ideas of backstage filming is a great idea, means the presenter has to do less filler, and keeps the audience interested on the robots. Would also be great if theres a delay, as the robotieers could talk you through their robots and it would kill time, especially as they enter the arena.
One small problem though is whos going to film it. We shouldnt expect john, or any other organiser to fork out on a film crew just for backstage access. And most of the robotieers tend to be busy, strangly with robots. There are of course people who have free time at events, but then you got the problem of are they willing to do it, and also can they actually film? no one wants a shaky camera and so on, and the cameras are expensive in themselves.
You could do the interviews before the show when people are less busy and that means if people muck it up it can b refilmed. And if the robot hasnt changed you can use the same one again for te next show. You could even try and get people to do it themselves at home as most people have a camera with a record function- it would b like when they introduce the teams on scrapheap challenge
No offence to anyone here, but I don't think anyone is going to come to these shows to watch the roboteers talk about their robots.
If anything, they should be hidden away (I know this will rankle with some who want the reward of fame for their roboteering hard work) and the pretence of the robots being autonomous played up.
That way the robots themselves become the stars and develop a personality of their own.
Even back on Robot Wars it was Razer is devastatingly powerful with its jaw or Tornado is tenacious etc, not Ian and Simon are working well together today to attack their opponents etc
In a way, the drivers should be a bit like the operator of a Dalek, seeing them would ruin the magic a bit...
Fine to have an interview AFTER the fight to talk about what the crowd have just seen, but not before really.
Hey Ho
When are Roboteers going to start thinking out of the box (Jonno) and bin that wedge!.
On a more constructive note I think the last post is well wrong,the crowd would be more interested
in the team talking about how thier robot was made than hearing the compare waffle on too long.
Also most roboteers do have access to a decent video camera so decend on the arena on mass
instruct them on areas to film and cover all angles thats how mentorn did it-hey you might even
sell the edited version to a tv company.
Anyroad.............Colin
The masses do come to a show to see the robots fighting. Like the TV the chatting to roboteers has been a time filler just like at live shows. If there was no need to fill time while robots are cleared up you wouldnt see roboteers at all.
NO NO NO roboteers interviews, there's only so many 'Ro-butt' jokes I can take!
Is it possible to use any of the soundtrack from Robot Wars during fights? Someone extracted the tracks from the Extreme Destruction game a while ago, and Mentorn isn't exactly doing anything with the rights at the moment.
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