I've recently come across a foreign website called: Blogotheque. The basic concept is there're dozens (maybe hundreds) of well established musicians/bands/songwriters, an amazing selection, that all have videos made where they're asked/made to perform songs in unusual and/or uncomfortable places. Like on top of railway bridges, squashed in a lift, or whilst walking down a busy street. They call these 'Take-Away Shows" and they're all filmed cheaply and quickly and mostly in one take, proper guerrilla style.
I was happy to find out that the mastermind behind the idea was Vincent Moon, a name I was familiar with from a music-documentary of Arcade Fire called 'Miroir Noir', a very unusual and inspiring documentary following the band through both the recording and touring process. Moon shoots and directs lots of independent music-based films as well as lots of music videos for a lot of bands I love from the Alt. Rock ("Indie" - in its true sense) genre.
I've been trying to come up with a solid idea of a project to set myself this summer. Initially I was leaning towards a straightforward documentary following my friends band that are doing fairly well for themselves at the moment. But I've always been drawn to the concept of both guerrilla filming and guerrilla gigs and I'm really keen to take influence from this and make use of the massive quantities of quality musicians I know back home in Brighton and maybe create a digital network incorporating loads of mini videos. Perhaps beginning by making them myself and then allowing people to add their own.
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