Maqlu stuff: Video for "Lord of the Flies"

Made a lil' video for "Lord of the Flies" off the new Maqlu EP, Haze.

All footage is in the public domain, music and lyrics copyright 2011 Pyra Draculea.

Haze is now available on iTunes.

And to tie it in with the more usual theme of this blog, promotion tips etc., here's a couple points I don't mention elsewhere on the web: I whipped this video up in Final Cut Pro over the course of an evening. Yes, more time might have made it better, but hey, there's some fun spots where things line up just so, and I think it's a good example of what a band or a solo artist can do on their own. Actually, you can do an even better job, as I plan to next time. Might even spend a whopping two evenings on it.

You can do just as good a job in iMovie and there's a bunch of other free or cheap video editors - I just use Final Cut as I learned it 3 years ago at school and I already have the software and can't be bothered to learn any other program.

Hell, you can make a video on your iPhone now.

And as noted above, this is all public domain footage. In other words, this is an example of a "zero dollar music video" which is one of the latest buzz things. All it cost me was time in digging through archive.org, time in going through my videos and making sub-clips which I though might work, and time in figuring out how to order them and then tweak the edits into the final form.

I plan to do more zero dollar videos over the rest of the spring and summer until all of my songs have one. Some might retain a public domain focus as for this one, some might be me figuring out what footage to shoot around town and working from that, some might be me roping my best friend into filming me in mock performance type situations, etc. All of them will cost me only time.

So - there ya go. I'm the queen of excuses and procrastination, and as a solo artist I don't get to share the workload and now even I have a music video.