Cooking With Rockstars

Cooking with Rockstars is the side project of Jennifer Robbins, the producer, host, and sometimes editor of the show. Cooking with Rockstars is exactly what it sounds. Every once in a while when Jen gets a chance she will sit down one of her favorite musicians for an interview but unlike any other interview, this conversation is about food. CWR is primarily a music show where the artists get to talk about themselves, and secondly a cooking show where they teach Jen and the viewers how to cook. Every featured guest on the show has to contribute a recipe. Some are as simple as toast, others are intricately detailed recipes that can feed up to 28 people! Some starts are interviewed outside of a venue or in a diner, while others get the opportunity to actually cook in a kitchen in front of a camera.

Since this show is very much content oriented the quality definitely takes a back seat. Like any good web show there aren't any fast movements or weird angels, this show is very straight on. Most of the time it is a two shot of Jen and the featured artist and their respective close-ups. For other shows where the artists get to cook the visuals become much more interesting. For example, the All For Nots episode includes close-ups of the food that is being prepared and cooked. There are also reaction shots and cutaways, all of which makes the show that much more visually interesting. The episodes are edited in Final Cut and posted on her website along with Blip.tv. Along with footage of the host and the guest, the show includes footage of the artist performing Jen's website, www.cookingwithrockstars.com, is a great tool that enhances the web show. Attached to each episode is the recipe information about the artist, links to their music and a discography. There is also some behind the scenes information about the episode that tells who shot and edited the episode along with where the interview took place.

Unlike most other web shows this one does not have a story arc, it doesn't have a narrative. In short, it is not a series. Every episode can stand on it's own with out others. Another interesting part is that this show was started in 2002, earlier then most content for the web, back when the internet was still a baby. As a cooking show and as a music show it definitely accomplishes it's goals. After watching the show I feel more informed about some of my favorite artists and I get the urge to go in the kitchen and start cooking,

As for marketing and advertising for the show I feel that because of the nature of the show it would be very simple. Any one who like indie music or food would love this show. This is especially attractive to young folks who like to try new food and flavors.