Drink Shots

Drinks Appearing/Disappearing:

For our A2 advanced portfolio main product of a music video we thought it would be interesting to use some artistic shots and not just of the band. We also realised that it could be beneficial in telling the narrative to our audience.

For this we came up with the idea of using ellipsis for the time passing. To experiment this idea we created this clip of bottles and glasses appearing and disappearing, we thought this would give the impression of the unstable state of our characters, specifically our protagonist. We also thought it would be fun to experiment with the drinks and see what we could do. 

I believe this was effective as it shows people arriving at the party, which with the lack of actors we had for the party shots gave the impression of more people than there was. It also represented the beginning and the end of our narrative, as it ends with one bottle alone. This represents our main character, Matt, being alone.

• We created this shot by filming a very long sequence that was originally 21 minutes of footage. It involved slowly adding, removing and placing drinks in different places to give the impression of movement.
• Then by using Adobe Premiere CC we were able to cut the one long shot into multiple quick shots and place them together to create the clip here.
• We did this on a separate file to our music video so we could export it as a whole so we could simply just add the clip into the rest of our music video without destroying the arrangement of the shots. 
• It all went rather smoothly but we realised that it was far too long to have originally as even with cutting it was resulting in being approximately a minute long, taking up 1/4 of our music video time frame.
• To solve this we sped this clip up using the speed tool, we did this on the music video file so we could compare to the beat of the music and tried to get it to run in time with the drum beat. 

Other Drink Shots: 

We took many other drink shots in our music video to heavily focus on the idea that these young adults are getting intoxicated, possibly to escape their troubles or just to have a good time. 

We thought we'd focus on this because of the stereotypical ideology of British teenagers of drinking, first love and first heartbreak, all of which we are trying to portray in our narrative. 

We used Close-Ups and Extreme Close-Ups in a variety of different angles. 

We also attempted with shots of pouring drinks, and we used some of spilling drinks. However this was not entirely intentional but when we looked at the clips we thought it would be more iconic to represent the drunken state of the teenagers.