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Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. I'm on set with the crew today, and we're going to show you
how to make breakaway glass. This was a process that was started back in the early days of
film. They made candied glass, which was basically ingredients that you could find in your cupboard.
They wanted to build breakthrough windows, break a bottle on someone's head, you just
can't do that with regular glass. So they started to make a candy product that you could
mold into bottles, you could make into a pane, a window pane, and this became their special
effect. You can go through a window pane made out of candied glass, you certainly can do
it. We're going to show you how to make those panes today.
You're going to need several ingredients that you probably have in your cupboard, or if
not, you can get at most any grocery store. You'll need a large pot, a metal spoon or
spatula, a candy thermometer, and a cookie sheet. You're also going to need some cooking
spray like a PAM, a spray oil. The spoon should be metal, because a wooden spoon can discolor
the glass. Alright, there are the ingredients that you're
going to need. You're going to need two cups of distilled water, again, distilled water,
rather than a water that has minerals in it, because minerals also will discolor the glass.
You'll need one cup of light corn syrup, you're going to add three and a half cups of sugar,
then you're going to add one-fourth of a teaspoon of cream of tartar.
If you go to the Slanted Lens Facebook page, there's a written copy of the recipe there
and some photographs that show you step by step how to accomplish this process. Bring
mixture to boil, stirring it constantly. Let it continue to boil until it reaches 300 degrees.
While you're waiting for it to reach 300 degrees, use a cooking spray and spray the cookie sheet.
Pour the mixture onto the cookie sheet and let it cool for at least one hour. The cookie
sheet became our mold, which will give us the size of our finished piece of glass. So
this is our candy glass. Adam is kind of cleaning up after we've made our candy glass, but it
worked out quite well. Let's see how it works. It works pretty good, actually. We may have
cooked it a little long, but in the end it really made a nice piece of glass. Now we've
seen the type of stuff. I think we'll go to Alfonoso's Breakaway Glass and show you how
you do this with acrylics and not your own breakaway glass. That might be more safe.
Alfonso's makes a variety of items, from bottles to figurines. They make colored glass, they
make ceramics, all of this stuff is made from acrylics so that it breaks very easily. It's
very, very cool. In fact, you know what, let me get the brown jug. That's probably one
of the neatest. Let's look at how we created this little video
piece. So the setup was very simple, a couple of tables and a couch against a white wall,
but it really set a background to emphasize the pink punch and to make the piece work.
The very first light we have set up is a fill light. We took an overhead soft box and bounced
it into a piece of white seamless just off from camera right. That just gave us a subtle
fill to the entire set, undirectional with no motivation. We just want to open up the
shadows just a little bit. For background light, we added a 500-watt star light to the
small soft box that we've pointed at the wall and then tilted down, so it will just make
a little bit of a glow behind the couch. We added a rim light off of camera left. That's
a 3K that we can add one K at a time. For our key light on our talent, we used a beauty
dish on a Hensel hot light. What's nice about these Hensel hot lights is that they have
the same configuration as their strobe heads, so they take all of the same lighting modifiers.
We used a small LED light with a rheostat on the back that we can bounce the rheostat around so
that it felt like he was watching TV. We put a blue gel on it so it gave a blue cast as
it flickers on and off. Also, we shot this piece using a new piece of equipment that
we've fallen in love with called a Shuttle Pod from Kessler Crane. The fishbowl is kind
of dead, didn't have a lot of life to it, so we added a little small 150-watt light
to backlight the fishbowl and bring it alive a little bit. It really worked out nice, the
fishbowl pops as we start our dolly across, as we move into our main shot.
This has been a lot of fun to be able to look at breakaway glass products. They've even
got red bottles over at Alphonso's breakaway glass. So we've seen how to make some yourself,
and we've seen a very inexpensive place to purchase them, which really is a great place-
I think I deserved that.