Okay, I have had some deeper conversation about music video art direction somewhere else and found a music video shot with a thermal camera, it struck me because I remembered a feature story from FLIR about a music video shot on their cameras. A quick search and I found a few:
let's start with the one I found while searching something else.
Warwick Field is a cinematographer, together with director
Natasha Pincus he has worked on several music videos. One of them is
Born For The Nightlife by Declan and The Antics. On the website he notes that it was shot with a FLIR camera and recorded in ProRes on a recorder. ProRes is a video codec from Apple, it is 10bit and comes in various compression levels. The video appears to be interlaced. It is shot in the "rainbow" palette.
Rayn Staake has directed several music videos and also some comercials. He experiments with different visual tricks so check out his other work as well. For the music video
My Love by Route 94 he worked with
Adam Donald. They used a FLIR SC8200 camera with a
Pix240 recorder. In
this article you can read a little about the technical aspects of this production. They used the Iron palette and controlled the low and high point of the temperature range to make the background black.
E:I found another
interview that gives similar information and 3 images showing the camera and settings:
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Thomas Kirk aparently shot the video for
Stockholm Syndrome by Muse. The only real information I was able to find on this video is a fanwiki without any sources.
It states that they rented a camera and shot this in a warehouse, inspired by the movie Predator. It uses a rain like palette and is very blurry.
Black Lake is on the the production company that produced the music video
Infrared by Bassnectar. It is really hard to find information on this video shoot, but looks like you were able to
sign up for it - while they already had part of it. The video material is also used for the stage live visuals. They used a FLIR camera and the iron palette, extreme retiming and flickering as it is used in some music videos.
Nor really a music video, but noteable. In 2017 Thirty Seconds to mars performed
Walk On Water live at the MTV Video Music Awards. It was shot by two
FLIR SC8300 and two A8303. They used custom software by
MoviTHERM to adjust the palette scaling live. From the
BTS footage you can see that they use a palette called 1234, but it looked like an adjusted Lava palette to me.
Jaron Albertin directed the music video
Our Hell by Emily Hains & The Soft Skeleton. It was shot with a FLIR A8303sc in greyscale white hot.
Mary Wigmore directed the music video
Midnight by Coldplay. According to
FLIR they used a FLIR SC 8303 in greyscale with added blue and further visual effects.
Hiro Murai directed several awesome music videos with
Larkin Seiple. One of them is
. They used FLIR SC8313 in greyscale white hot.
E#2 - added more information, still need to fix the formatting to stop those youtube links form autoembedding and hiding the text inside the hyperlink: someone help me.