Filming the Bottle and the Swimming Pool

When we were at Connor’s house, we thought we needed to make new footage. We noticed that Connor had a swimming pool in his garden and realised that it linked nicely with the song as it’s called ‘Swimming Pools’. We chose to film a beer bottle floating in the pool to link the song and the point of the video, alcoholism. It also shows the audience that his drinking is uncontrollable and leaves drinking bottles all over the place. The visual feature of the bottle falling into the pool and floating is successful as it appears calm yet the message it represents is fitting with the distressed, depressed tone of the video.

This shot shows the bottle being thrown in the pool, this was to try and capture the splash it makes as we use a similar effect with the water in the bath scenes when our models quickly come up from underwater and grab the side of the bath splashing the water visually. This also shows the lack of care Connor has for his alcohol problem and he’s throwing away his used bottles everywhere. We decided to try and capture the bottle creating a visual physical effect on the water as it represents the physical effect the bottle has had on Connor. 

This footage shows the bottle floating on the surface side on, this shows the label to show that it is an alcohol bottle. The bottle starts bobbing up and down and then starts to sink as it fills with water this gives the shot a different angle without us physically moving it ourselves, this makes it seem accidental and not forced at all which suits our music video better than us throwing the bottle into the water. 

This footage is of a bottle purposely being pushed into the pool by rolling off the side. If we cut the video at the right time, it makes it look like the bottle rolled into the pool accidently. We found that this is the best footage we got of the bottle rolling in the pool and would use it in our video.