Two bands invent cheap ways to make music videos

Here’s a story that’s been passing around the internet lately. File it under: creative ways to make music videos for close to nothing.

The Get Out Clause, an unsigned Manchester band who could not afford a camera crew for their video, ‘performed’ in front of a load of CCTV cameras, requested the footage from the camera operators under the Data Protection Act and then stitched the results together for their music video.

-WillS via Boingboing

Thanks to Ted for first sharing the story with me.

Another interesting video is this one for the Dublin band, Sickboy. From the director, Lorcan Finnegan:

Two of the band members, Colm and Brian are identical twin brothers - like carbon copies of each other, which got me interested in the idea of copying and reproduction of images. I was also interested in the aesthetic of the home made fliers and self promotional material being produced by local bands, often cracked and torn black and white photocopies showing a picture of the band and a date etc.

So I photocopied Colm’s face in a photocopier and got him to move it around as the light from the copier passed his face to create distortions - we made hundreds of photocopies with all the main mouth/facial shapes needed for lip sync. Then I shot them playing on whitescreen, photocopied the frames etc - put the mouth shapes in order and photographed them etc.