Thanks everyone! it was a lot of fun doing it - especially cause it was our first time we played around with blue screen video overlay stuff. It makes me realize how lame and cheap a lot of song videos really are - just get the band members to dance to their song in front of a blue screen and then add whatever screen saver you find from the internet behind them - no effort required. I mean, ours is rough and primitive and we probably broke every "don't do" rules regarding video technique in our ignorance. But honestly, a surprising amount of music clips are just totally boring and nasty - no clever artistic thought to the video content matching the song lyrics or meaning. I'm assuming bands pay someone good money to make these clips for them - and probably charge them a lot. We did ours with one old mini-DV camera, and a 10 year old computer - cost: zero. I should go into business :D
Christseen: the instrument I'm twiddling is a 1960's Yanagimoto Polarograph, where I work here in the Chemistry school at the University of Tasmania. This place is full of ancient old retired instruments in our storeroom dungeon. I'd like to pull the boards out of it and fit an analogue synth into it or some circuit bent gadget and use it for music....although it probably wouldn't be very good for live performances, it weighs a ton!
Cheers, Graham