Making Use of Big Brother
If you want to make a music video, but can not afford any filming equipment, what do you do? A band from Manchester hit upon an ingenious idea.
Only 25% of the organizations complied with their requests, but the footage was still enough to make a music video. Here is the finished product -
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Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets.
With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, suitable locations were not hard to come by.
They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to the cameras.
Afterwards they wrote to the companies or organisations involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act.
"We wanted to produce something that looked good and that wasn't too expensive to do," guitarist Tony Churnside told Sky News.
"We hit upon the idea of going into Manchester and setting up in front of cameras we knew would be filming and then requesting that footage under the Freedom Of Information act."
Only 25% of the organizations complied with their requests, but the footage was still enough to make a music video. Here is the finished product -
Link via email from Shantanu.
