Thursday, May 22, 2008

Making Lemonade

Presented more or less without comment.
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."

Wow.
(h/t Thers)

4 comments:

steve simels said...

Kind of adds new meaning to the phrase Big Brother is Watching.

Or Video Killed the Radio Star.

Or something....

Ali said...

Farking brilliant. I love it.

Anonymous said...

Very clever, I would love to see the finished video.

ROTP(lumber)

shrimplate said...

More people should do this.