As a group we wanted to smash glass for our music video, however, we had to consider the safety of this as it would be very unsafe to smash real glass. We solved this problem by deciding to create sugar glass which is used to simulate glass in movies, photographs and plays. It is much less likely to cause injuries than real glass and it breaks easily which is why we decided to use it. We followed the instructions as to how make the sugar glass:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Sugar-Glass
We originally wanted to have the sugar glass shaped as wine glasses, as it was more sophisticated and more appropriate for the video and meaning of the song, as wine is a connotation of romance. Therefore the glass would be broken as one of the meanings of the song is that the love is broken:
However, we could not shape the sugar glass into wine glasses as it was home made, so instead we made a sugar glass slab and then smashed it on the floor. Which looked a bit like this:
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