In Manchester UK, Big Brother's watching, and so is everyone else. A rookie band with zero budget created a great-looking music video using the city's surveillance cameras. Well done, guys.
(The song's okay too.)
The best part is that they obtained the videos through the Freedom of Information Act. Use that surveillance state to your advantage!
Very clever use of media: playing to cameras in the street, in taxis, even on a bus. Videos capture reactions from passersby, and the use of frames warps space and time in smart ways. I guarantee this mechanism will be used to execute an ad or viral video (if it hasn't happened already).
Read the full article and band interview here.
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I will agree, they did do a fantastic job. Very artistically innovative, & a productive use of mankind's mind.
Of course the manner with which the music video was acquired is a political statement. The United Kingdom has been a police state for at least a decade now. Interest groups there have denounced CCTV for at least law enforcement applications because not only does it violate privacy, it discourages any physical movement into public, since any sort of objective evidence can be used, even by the authorities, not to mention other interested parties, in the biased attempt to incriminate, harass, blackmail, or otherwise molest any person and their property with nothing more than the simple motive to destroy others.
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