Here is a story that would probably only work in Britain, where there is a Close Circuit TV Camera on every corner, and being Government owned cameras you can demand the photoage. What government ones that are around the states would hold onto their tape for “National Security.” But what this band did, that must of taken a lot of time and I’d love too see some of the outtakes… but it came together nicely.
Got a band but can’t afford to shoot a video? Use public CCTV cameras and then demand the footage!
The Get Out Clause are an upcoming UK band who are currently unsigned. They took a brilliant and I’m sure soon to be much copied method to producing their own video. Unable to hire a production crew for a standard 1980’s era MTV music video, they performed their music in front of 80 of the 13 million CCTV “security” cameras available in England, including one on a bus.
They then used Britain’s Data Protection Act to request the footage that was shot of them. Grab some decent and inexpensive video editing tools (say. . . an iMac) and presto! They got themselves a unique and in my opinion quite interesting music video.
[via ArsGeek]
Tags: CCTV, government, Music, Video
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