7 amazing webcam based music videos

There are just a few music videos out there which are made with web cams. I want to present to you a few outstanding videos which have impressed me. I think that all in all, they are awesome, especially when you consider that they are made with simple web cams. So let’s check them out:

1. Frittenbude vs. We Are Enfant Terrible – Steven Seagul

This song is a remix of “Seagull” from the French band We are Enfant Terrible. A German band called Frittenbude made this video in 2009, just a few months after the original.

The music video was directed by Maxime Lethelier and was made with the web cams on their Macbooks. The artists recorded themselves in New York City, Munich and Frittenbude’s rehearsal room. If you like the song, you can download it for free at SoundCloud.

2. Sour – Hibi no Neiro

This famous video is of the Japanese band Sour and won the Japan Video Awards in 2009. It’s a collaboration of fans from all over the world who recorded themselves with their webcams and contributed the footage. The single “Hibi no Neiro” (translated “Tone of everyday”) appeared in their first EP “Water Flavor”. The video was directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura and Masayoshi Nakamura. You can read more about the making of it at “WeLoveYouSo.com”

3. Ariel Horovitz – A Simple Song

This music video of Ariel Horovitz from Tel Aviv, directed by Asaf Billet from Toronto, claims to be the “World’s 1’st Webcam Music Video”. However, I personally don’t think it was. Anyway, the making of gives interesting insight behind the scenes.

4. Young Jerz Mafia Music Freestyle

A home-made music video from the 21 year old American Rapper Young Jerz (Twitter: @youngjerz). Pretty cool for a zero-budget production, right?

5. HEALTH – Triceratops

This video is a live performance of the Los Angeles based band HEALTH recorded by the cameras of 13 Macbooks. It was directed by Saul Levitz, who is part of the VisionVersion collective. Click here to see some pictures from the shooting at the Materials & Applications building in LA.

6. ChartJackers – I’ve Got Nothing

This video was created as part of a charity project called ChartJackers initiated from the four vloggers Charlie McDonnell, James Hill, Jonathan Haggart and Alex Day. They composed a song with the help of the YouTube community with the aim of reaching first place in the UK Singles chart. The attempt failed, but the single came to 36th place. If you want to know more about the project watch the feature done by BBCSwitch (the commissioners of the project).The video isn’t produced with web cams only, but a lot of YouTube users contributed their own footage to the production using their webcams

7. C-Mon & Kypski – More Is Less

This crowd sourced stop motion music video directed by Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey is still in progress. Everybody can contribute a frame via web cam on the project website until all frames are replaced by images from users. The video will be updated every hour. The single “More Is Less” is a part of the album called “We are square” from the Dutch band C-Mon & Kypski. You can read a very interesting interview about the production of the movie and the technical background at Creativity-Online. Pretty amazing… So, take part!

What did you think? Do you know any other web cam based music videos? What’s your favorite one? Let us know your comments below!