Why you can't buy Dasani water in Britain
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2020
- Coca-Cola's brand of bottled water, Dasani, was a flop in the UK after the public realised it was just filtered tap water. But the story's a bit more complicated than it might seem. | Drinking Dasani with Ashens: • 15-year-old UK Dasani ...
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If you wish I'd drunk some of this: so do I! And you're in luck, because Ashens and I did just that over on his channel: ua-cam.com/video/c6VhcpwFZJM/v-deo.html
Tom Scott how was this pinned a day ago?????????????????? Came out litro 5 mins ago
Timezones.
Tom Scott be like: *_T H E L A W S O F T I M E A R E M I N E_*
@@Lankzstuntin He's a time traveller.
@@nliberty No, in some videos the comments are up to one month older than the video
Pov: ur going for a walk and some stranger starts following you and lecturing you on a story about bottled water
I mean better than walking alone
Don’t even have to say anything?🙏
hide what?
Lmao
I dunno why that made me laugh so much lmaoo
pov: you're slowly backpedaling away from a psychopath talking about water
Hmm. I wonder where you got the idea to write this?
@@BWADaniel I’ll help you, G Pll
Almost made the EXACT same joke! Haha nice
I agree
999th like
You make some very elaborate videos, but I cannot imagine how difficult it is to shoot all of this in one take. The fact that you were able to line up the destination with your punch line. The fact that you were not distracted at any moment by the world going around you. The fact that you remembered every word you were planning to say. I would love to see a Tom Scott blooper reel one day!
Almost like he's a professional. Sure, a youtube pro but still.
@@jayw900 he most certainly is a professional. I just forget sometimes the work that goes into these videos. He makes it look easy, that doesnt mean it is!
@@jayw900 Lmao, thank you captain obvious
@@jayw900 an intelligent one :P
He was using cue cards
It's absolutely incredible how Tom can not only remember his 10 minute long script, but do it in a single take AND get to the plant the second his script tells him he should point at the plant. Incredible. He doesn't even lose focus once.
Ps. Cudos to the camera person for walking backwards that whole time and not stumbling.
He nearly lost it when he almost dropped the bottle...
He had to walk REALLY slow to time it right
@@reecedeyoung6595 I can see that. Thank you.
Likely has a teleprompter with timing cues. No reason not to.
He told us in other videos he uses a teleprompter! But of course. Because memorizing 10 minutes straight of data and the right words would be very tough.
Some people praised 1917 for it's long shots, but Tom Scott showed us all how it's done.
This wasn't faked either.
And the story actually makes sense unlike this nonsensical film written by a lady who is obviously clueless about how things go in war.
its*
@@zwete You mean they didn't actually send a cameraman back to ww1?
It looks nice on UA-cam, but hey, London is big and Tom Scott is still just a human. It could have been done on multiple takes, which reminds me of that brilliant video of UA-cam IDs, which was supposedly done in one take.
POV: You are slowly being backed into a corner whilst being lectured on bottled water
Stolen comment
The best and last 9 minutes and 50 seconds of your life
Shameless copying, I see. It's always funny when the original comment is right below the stolen one.
😂
For the record, this is significantly funnier to me than the "stolen" comment about someone following you. It's a more threatening visual with less clutter than the other comment, providing a cleaner and more "jarring" punchline.
I am working on a process to dehydrate water into a powder and selling it in small emergency packets- all you do is add water and you have instant water.... that will sell well in the UK !
Hahahh!!!! So super extra mega ultra funny.....not.
sadly, this is somehow a thing ( powdered water exists )
I cant tell if im more impressed by the information being told to me, or the commitment and sheer cool factor of your walking start to the cocacola plant, amazing video as always
Allow me to 1 up that, for the entire 9 minutes and 50 seconds, there is not a single cut in the video
@@LoneBeastYT Tom is awesome
People are talking about Tom's "one take" ability but nobody's mentioning his ability to wear a red shirt and grey hoodie for the past 5+ years.
ONE OUTFIT. There we go! XD
ohh well you right hes still doing that.^^ Im just notecig im kinda doing the same :D
Tom released a video about his red shirt a couple of years ago, so nothing left to talk about :)
And the not aging at all.
plot twist, the shirt was white originally
"That's an odd location to film a video..."
*camera pans left*
"Okay then."
Seems like OJ Simpson was around at the end at some point
Tom puts a lot of thought into these videos.
@@Official_KC What does that even mean?
@@TeamLegacyFTW I think it's because of the gloves on the road towards the end of the video.
Gloves on the road are normal in Scott’s one takers.
I'm amazed you were able to do this video in a single continuous take without cuts. I can only imagine how difficult it was to perfect this video
He does use a teleprompter though. He admitted it in a recent interview.
Are u also amazed about the Rainbow?
Thanks Britain for thwarting the invasion. At one point in my life I was locked in a ship with only Dasani and its Pepsi counterpart Aquafina, and it felt like drinking nothingness, which managed to make me even thirstier. Even the tea brewing in it felt lacking.
Yeh both are disgusting; the only thing worse is Evian which is so base I use it only to induce vomiting.
It's all just overpriced water
@@frankfurter7260 arrowhead water use to taste like boiled weenie water…
Agree! It literally doesnt quench your thirst, horrible water.
@@symphonyandserenity Yes! I swear it even dries my mouth out, somehow.
the camera pan to reveal the coke plant was too good
Chump Lord spoiler alert 🚨
@@rootpill you should know what you're getting into when you're reading what is literally called a *COMMENT* SECTION, they are just commenting on the video.
spoilers for the video don't really exist in comments
@@ihavenoidea4416 .
@@ihavenoidea4416 .
i have no idea you have zero sense of humor. and now youll either not reply at all or tell me that you do have a sense of humor and that this wasnt funny
“It’s basically Coke without the syrup” you’re not wrong
Oh, here you are again
CUBA!
Me, an intellectual smarter than every existence in the Box: *_N O S H I T S H E R L O C K_*
@@realhawaii5o He's basically everywhere at this point...
Solidarity to my Cuban comrades
During a trip to the US I was like "hmmm what the hell is that purified water they sell in bottles ?" And it was just that. What you can do at home with a water purifier, they do sell to you in a bottle... France, like the UK, never had such a product, and like the UK, has many mineral water brands, exported all over the world (Evian, Vittel, Volvic, Perrier...). There is no way such a product would have worked once people would have known what it was in France, because they would have had the same reaction as me : "why the hell would I pay for that when tap water is so cheap?".
Not every place has nasty tap water like the US though. When I lived in Florida, even a PUR filter didn't do anything for the water - still tasted like drinking warm swamp water.
You pay for the convenience and transport, plus the receptacle, what's inside is the least important part, people know and it still has a market, especially considering the alternatives in the fridge have sugar and other additives I'll pay for the comparatively clean option.
@Landon P I live in Detroit, and Detroit city water is highly regarded. Gotta remember how massive the US is, there are thousands of water treatment plants for all different areas.
@@zbabyg6998 It's not always an issue with the city water - it can also be an issue with pipes as well. Frankly, when I drink water it has to be spring water like Icelandic Glacial, Fiji, or Evian. Purified bottled tap water leaves a chemical aftertaste that is horrible - and most tap water I have drank just has off-putting taste to me.
PFAS goes right through
Riveting! Tom Scott, you make the Dasani story so much more dramatic than my former business school marketing case studies of product launches that failed disastrously. Thanks for the research, and fascinating storytelling.
Have never bought Dasani here in the US, because we know it’s tap water. Apologies to my friend, who had a 20-year career in Coca-Cola marketing.
I don't consider filtered tap water to be the same as tap water.
It becomes high quality water.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate this monstrous 9 minute single take with many facts, names, and quotes
and so well timed with the lorry as well, hauhauahua
don't forget the annoying horn at 2:50
I assume he’s got a portable auto cue setup being carried by Matt.
Yea and all that just to record it next to a noisy, annoying road
@@JasperJanssen Doesn't sound like Matt at the end
Tom “One-take” Scott
Fr
How do you know? It might have been his tenth attempt.
@@johnm2012 Somebody didn't finish the video...
@@johnm2012 one-take means the whole video with no cuts
Tom "weird baby steps" Scott
After finding out about this, my school decided to stop adding Dasani in the water vending machines and replace them with actual "clean" water
the diffrence is negligable at best, i promise you if you blind tasted It you wouldnt notice a difference, and you body also would see no difference between the two
I hope that they just went with whatever was cheapest as that is actually probably best for the environment and exactly the same for the users. Second of course to making it easy to just get water from a tap
@@SM-ys8lw I can pick out different popular water brands without looking at the label, because most of them taste bad to me, so I wouldn't say the difference is negligible. But you could be correct that it's negligible for some, perhaps due to circumstances like ageing or smoking.
@@bubblegumplastic you assume you're the average taster, I suppose I do too, but I've never heard of the opposite being the case, its possible you're a super taster, meaning you perception of flavor is significantly higher then average
Only fools and horses is one of the best and one of my favourite tv shows! It was hugely popular in Croatia and today is still considered cult classic.
Wait he's filming a video in his own country? Impossible.
HOOOONK!
And it's longer than 7 minutes
@Broodjekaas
No, he's fooled everyone, (apart from a few people in the know) as it was filmed in a studio in Finland using a gigantic green screen..
If you listen carefully you might be able to hear a hydraulic press in the distance.
Fun fact: at vidcon london I saw tom filming a video, so I witnessed him filming a video in his own country which is very cool
"Oi mate, i certainly hope you have camera license?!?!?!"
"One-Take Tom" is NOT phased by car horns!
Not fazed either. . .
Fazed
I remember watching a UK spokesman for the brand, trying to defend it. The interviewer asked him, : " so what makes Dasani different, after all it's just tap water?" , he replied : " It goes through an incredibly technical filtration system " ,' the interviewer countered with : " 'So that's it, it's just filtered?"
And about 2007, I was in Chicago, on the CTA, I saw a bottle of Dasani on the floor, and just shook my head!
HOABL
That episode was epic, and perfectly written as they all were!
The fact that this video is one take, no stuttering and no teleprompter makes this video truly amazing.
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He's amazing
There could be a prompter..
@@rushilkaul yep
Not to mention the camera operator walking backwards all the way...unless there was a guide keeping him on the path.
I didn’t search for this. There’s nothing that would indicate that I would want this.
But I like it.
Thank you, Obama!
By the way what's your last name?
Indigo Gollum care
okay president Obama
Why didn’t you fix the water problem Obama?
One of my coworker's brothers was an executive at Coca Cola. We were talking about how Dasani is just filtered tap water and he said that his brother actually said that bottling Dasani was more expensive than Coke because of the extensive filtration process. I'm not surprised as I think that they spend more on marketing than on the actual product.
To be honest, I'm much more bothered by seeing Fiji, San Pelligrino, or Evian shipped halfway around the world than the idea that Dasani is just well-filtered water.
I'm always blown away by your preparation and execution in these videos. Almost 10 minutes in a single take and a perfectly timed reveal! Well done!
Oh and also the story was cool too.
Toms trying to flex on us with his one take 9 minute walking monologue but we're all here marveling at how the camera person walked backwards and even crossed a road without falling over and kept a good shot
Walking backwards can be easy, but only if the path is clear and predictable. I would have to assume there was a third person involved with this video. Tom Scott, his cameraman, and then a third person walking ahead of the cameraman and making sure the path is clear and there is no traffic, etc, on the roads they were crossing.
There are also ways to mount and hold the camera so that you film behind you and don't have to walk backwards.
Notice how they are walking in sync?
Let's not overlook the perfectly placed pair of gloves at 9:10
Also they roads they crossed were access roads to the factory, so there's a whole lot less traffic on them, so it's much easier to do it safely (bar that one truck in the outro)
“It’s like coke but without the syrup”
I GUESS
Tap water is like coke but without the syrup.
It literally is. It’s water with the added drying agents to make you more thirsty and they even slightly carbonate it.
@@nicksurfs1 that sounds like a conspiracy theory.
@@Axodus It says drying agent in the ingredients and salt.
@Emmanuel Goldstein
Yes, I'm aware, but I think it's silly you think the percentage is even close to enough to actually make you thirsty.
I remember when restaurants here in Italy (a land of extremely good mineral waters) tried to sell "purified water" at the same price of mineral water. It lasted a couple of years then people started to refuse to pay.
Tom, you did not mention the number one issue with tap water: the last mile.
The voyage water takes to your tap varies with the type and age of municipality's system. Older pipes contaminate the water with lead and other metals. Sometimes minor cracks will permit untreated ground water.
Even if the water is uncompromised your building's local plumbing may be faulty.
I just love it when Tom gets excited about doing 1 take.
Wow thanks for ruining a surprise
@@scottking8189 it’s not really a surprise just a cool thing
@@Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone yuh
@@scottking8189 🤓🤓🤓
Austin Farley.. ur a witness huh?
Other youtubers: *rolls eyes * "sorry for the car outside guys..."
Tom:
Putting out a horn warning like it's a jumpscare warning
1:13 Mercedes AMG gt
How do you pronounce your last name
reminds me of how youtubers apologize saying "oh im sick and sound horrible" or "ugh im sorry for the rain it's annoying i know" but you don't even care or notice at all.
(Honk follows the countdown at 2:48)
"can't live without spunk" is going to be my new life motto
you are the only youtuber i know who doesnt do a new shot every 4 words, it's amazing how you can just say everything within a take.
Wow, I'm super impressed that they timed an almost 7 minute walk to be able to turn the camera and have a shot of the factory at the exact right time.
They actually hired Christopher Nolan and filmed it all backwards :D
*practice*
.
no but seriously look at the way he's walking.
@@iansteelmatheson oh i didn't notice
@@iansteelmatheson lmfao
@@iansteelmatheson One take though?
Is that a guy with a cameraman, filming something?
I should honk at them !
alexxxth Unless there’s traffic. >:)
@@yy.189 they still usually don't honk even in traffic
If you look theres a car crossing the median recklessly causing the main like annoying horn
Ghiman the guy aaaaand a silver car does the same thing 10 seconds later
@@yy.189 The only reason they would honk is to say hello or get someone's attention
On this side of the pond, Dasani actually started as an experiment to see if they could turn wastewater (yes, from a sewage treatment plant) could be turned into drinking water. Started at the Atlanta Metro Wastewater treatment plant. Never realized how badly it was handled on that side of the pond though.
It was just one gaff. Had it not been for _Only Fools and Horses,_ Coca-Cola probably could have survived this
METRO ATL MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥
Something I find amazing about Tom's videos is the way he includes small bits of criticism of the media he shows and references on his videos so the usage of clips and fragments of the media he puts on screen fall under fair use (at least that's what i believe he does that for partially)
Even in America Dasani is viewed as one of the worst bottled waters. If you get Dasani you are either at a movie theater where they only sell Dasani or it’s the only choice at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.
Dasani, the water brand where every bottle tastes like it has a nickel in it.
so true.
I work at a Walgreens and there are customers who actually come in and buy Dasani willingly... Cases of the stuff. Rare, but they're there.
I only ever heard of it when people were panic buying and someone from the U.S posted on twitter a photo of the shelves being empty except at the end there was a big stacked pile of Dasani water untouched 🤣
Dasani and Aquafina are the two best water bottled brands imo
Posting to call out the fact that this was nearly ten minutes in a SINGLE TAKE and aside from the car horn, it's basically perfect. How Tom hasn't been snapped up to present major TV or film documentaries yet is amazing to me. It takes serious talent to deliver like that, for that long, entirely from memory. Bravo, sir!
It's better with the car horn anyway
Yeap, the second one take I see and I am so amazed by it. This is incredible hard.
He's making far more money presenting on youtube - he's probably turned down a lot of TV offers in his time.
@@hellocommaspacebitch my revenue has gone down by about 75%. Views and clicks have not gone down at all... In fact views and clicks have gone up.... Yielding a lower paycheck.
It's not like I was living off UA-cam... But it was a good fund for my hobbies. Not anymore.
Unlike BBC and MSM reporters, Tom is intelligent, articulate and telling the truth, after researching well.
One take Tom Scott. Wonderfully done.
😮the car horn warning was so amazingly helpful to me - yay! Thank you! I get to keep listening 😢❤
I am weirdly impressed by the timing of the monologue with the panning reveal of the bottling plant. That would have been way too easy to mess up
It took 34 hours of filming to get it right ;)
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 how do u know that?
@@sachinmajotra9665 what?
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 I said how do u know it took 34 hours
@@sachinmajotra9665 i don't, it was a joke.......
Dasani: every bottle tastes like it has a nickel in it.
My favorite drink of all time is water Idk I really love the taste and love trying different brand since I was child I hated Dasani and Aquafina I was a very picky eater as a kid so my parents thought I was being dramatic child so I just stuck with tap water (I live in Canada so it’s clean) as I grew up I think more people are starting to realize that Dasani & Aquafina taste horrible, tbh Idk why it took so long for people to realize that water made me more thirsty then quenched super acidic ugh.
@@tideio yup. I boycott Nestle water though since they are simply doing evil especially in Africa.
@@WhiteWolfos TRUE, (I’m East African) that’s why I just drink great value water or tap water
Based
It literally taste like a nickel😂
2:50
also due to both previous and (sadly) current public infrastructure failures or natural disasters, tap water in many places can be fairly dangerous to the human body without a lot of preparation. 2 years ago, large packs of bottled Water were under ~8 Euros (or about $5) in most places. I haven't kept up with the current prices so I can't say how bad it is now.
This bottled water, for several places in the United States, is quite literally a lifeline for entire towns and cities relying on it.
For the most recent and ongoing disaster in the state of Ohio, it will probably be staple until locals believe the water is safe again. The government is saying the water is safe, but almost nobody believes them and thinks they were bought out.
Its always funny to see Tom so excited over a one take video
Mute the audio and it looks like Tom is threatening you with a water bottle
This is hilarious
Lololol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
BRUUUUH 💀💀💀
My twin
At the 1:17 mark three cars in a row drive by and they are [nearly] the identical shade of blue as the Dasani. This has nothing to do with the content, but it distracted me long enough that I feel compelled to share this information with the world.
huh
grocery hauler convoy
Nice
thankyou for sharing
I was exactly at 1:17 when I saw your comment😂
I remember when the Dasani story broke in the UK. People were at that time somewhat sceptical of bottled water anyway, since the tap water in most of the UK was very high quality (before Thatcher privatised it). I can assure you, nobody had to have seen the OFAH episode to be outraged at the concept of Dasani: selling our own water back to us that we we already paid a tax for.
what they sell is a bottle, the water is just a bonus gift out of their goodwill.
it was intended for people who was in the public and couldn't be bothered to tap into the nearby sewer to drink some water
"before Thatcher privatised it" what, was Thatcher privatising things after 2004 or something? She'd been out of office for 14 years at that point, that's more than enough time for perceptions about tap water to change
@@treecko7424 Thatcher is still privatising things. Thatcherism is alive and stripping new national assets everynyear.
Not sure why you think privatisation affected the quality of tap water. AFAIK the rules and regulations have not been (ahem) watered down so the quality is just the same.
I buy it because it's one of the few waters left that come in good, solid bottles (not the crinkley kind!) that can be refilled and used again and again!
It always makes me happy to see Tom's "one take" celebrations, but what really impressed me was the camerawork. Not only did they keep Tom in centre frame while moving backwards for the full 9 minutes (and particularly while crossing the driveway), they made space for the graphics to appear when Tom mentioned them.
The panning shots were nice too.
Well done, to both of them.
It could also be done stabilization like in his one video
*some
Pikana well of course, but it’s still tough to do
could also be shot in 8k and re-framed to 4k in post. But its still a really good shot. Love the 1 take continuous clips.
Today i learned there's a chemical called "bromate" and i'm so disappointed there aren't more jokes about it
I’ve only heard one in a video about water filtration
Instantly texted my bromate to make this joke
@@shnorakalyutsun lmao!
@@shnorakalyutsun I wish I could, but my bromate is so toxic to be around
i think it might be called bromide but i might be wrong
I love how excited you get when you crank out these one-take wonders!
7:34 I like how he just memorized this entire quote, apparently.
It’s a miracle that Dasani didn’t fail everywhere, literally the only water you will hear people call bad
Aquafina is garbage too
Nestle is bad
@@martyhalloway7935 Nestle is the least offensive.
@@drfifteenmd7561 stealing peoples water and killing babies after hooking them on formula offends me.
@@drfifteenmd7561 Nestle is evil. They keep buying water sources, like they're trying to corner the market.
The old joke "Bottled water companies sell plastic bottles not water."
they sell both
@@TastyyOnUA-cam they sell purified human piss
@@taizu55 Kinky
@@MasterOfKnowledge. why jstu why
@@mayflooer5454 why not?
Great story and incredible one take! congrats mate :D
I lived in Eastern France and after drinking water from a local source for years it was declared unusable because of the cattle urine in the water.
That’s what gives it it flavor 🤤
I'll bet you were pissed
😂
This video is a certified masterpiece. Its one straight near 10 minute take full of info and facts about something you didnt know you wanted to know, and the walk was perfectly timed with the speech to end up at the bottling plant. Absolutely perfect
What is the character in your pfp called?
@@ALittleKitten Niko, from OneShot
Well, to be fair, he was actually taking baby steps next to the bottling plant for the entire 9 minutes, so the timing really wasn’t that hard.
Based Niko enjoyer
its called rehearsing. good christ.
Interestingly Coke owns "Smartwater" which is a popular brand of bottled water in the UK
Which is according to the packaging inspired by 'clouds' (and hopefully not their air pollution). I particularly like the supposed manufacturer of 'Glaceau' which has connotations of pure glacier ice-melt.
Being distilled water, it's not a million miles away from the stuff you put in your iron (deionised) but adding some electrolytes, because the mineral shtick didn't work last time.
I often see a bottle and wonder if the 'smart' refers to how they're once again pulling the wool over their supposedly smart customers' eyes.
Lassie Vision acid rain water
Nobody likes the taste of water haha
Smart water is for morons
if the water so smart how it get trapped in a bottle
dumb ass water smh
I was booked to promote this product in the UK from a branded van and was overjoyed when it got pulled just before I had that cancer-wagon outside my house as I was still paid the full fee. 😁
This is insane, I've been living in the US for the past 3 years and I'm just now realizing that I've been drinking glorified tap water the entire time...
I can’t believe people would buy it knowingly.
you... JUST realized it's just tap water? it's not a big national conspiracy or something.
As an American, i find this so weird that people didn't realize bottled water is just tap in a bottle.
@@FScotsman4472wheatly
I've known this forever. Does no one read the label? Unless it says "spring water" it's tap water.
@@goodtimes2hellyeah169it's convinience
I once was at a wedding in Rotherham and they had £12 bottles of "Immingham spring water" on the tables. Immingham has no springs. It does however have two oil refineries and a large port and is covered in coal dust...
Cheeky!
Its okay as long as the water was taken between winter and summer
@@k0lpA This is the UK, we don't winter or summer!
Isnt Rotherham where all the child rapists are?
Future Shock yea
North / N.E. Lincolnshire has a lot more springs than you think mate honestly
I'm a presenter....I cant talk 10min straight facts without looking...tell me your secret! Is it purified tab water?
👋
I'm sorry, but I can't go without commenting that you currently have 420k subs
“Tab water”
X Æ A-12 yep sill has
X Æ A-12 👋🏻
I love how excited Tom is about getting it all done in one take :D
Informative, straight to the point, not asking for a like or subcribe and well shot in one nice recording. Well done 👍
I recall a good Family Guy joke:
CEO of Dasani: Hey everybody, what if every bottle of Dasani water tasted like it *had a nickel in it?*
It does too, that’s no joke
@@dillon7981 isn't that the crux of the joke?
It IS my preference... even afterlearning all about it. Yea, I'm a CoaCola holic... Orange Vanilla my urrent poison here in USA
@@seminolerick6845 orange Coke is amazing
Dasani is the only water ppl wont buy during the rona virus outbreak
9:30 you can tell how proud tom is for nailing this take. kudos for this nearly 10min long monologue AND timing it for that reveal!!
Do you mean 9:30?
@@nicky2575 LMAO yes, yes i did.
What reveal
What a save at 2:20 too
Preceded at 9:09 by the sight of a pair of gloves in the roadway positioned at identical angles.
When making water specifically for coffee some people will get distilled water and add a bit of baking soda and magnesium.
Water that is hard will not be able to extract coffee very well and messes up the heating element on coffee machines.
This may be one of my favorite Tom Scotts, it’s something I genuinely care about (DO NESTLE! SAVE B.C. LAND!) Plus this is soooo well done in regards to the acting, composition, and cinematography! Everyone else has already said what I could on this so… cheers!
Not only did the cameran walk backwards for 9 minutes and not only did Tom remember the entire script perfectly but they timed the "there" bit with the coca cola factory so perfectly. (6:28)
Could it be and that what was said was on a prompter or actually written so it could be repeated as the speaker walked? THINK ABOUT IT!
@@vereabsolutum9131 Are you mad? 😄
@@asia.b probably jealous abt his memorization skills
Honestly the cameraman probably held the camera backwards. I would too
@@asia.b i mean it’s possible it’s on a prompter
I mean, everyone talks about Tom getting it in one shot consistently, and kudos to him. But can we talk about that videographer walking backwards for 9 minutes (or forward but keeping the shot on Tom) without even a small stumble?
n0
There is such a thing as a gimbal which stabilises the camera no matter what
Come on dude, use your head thats so obviously not a dude with a camera on his shoulder walking backwards lmao. If it was hed be a surgeon not a cameraman
@@ashleygrillo7316 then what is it
@@0oh_no most likely using what the guy above said, a camera stabilizer
I love how the story slowly gains more and more resemblance to Peckham Springs.
This is such a great video
In my head I thought
“That’s cool and all but
Why is the bottle so blue?”
Probably to make it look more fresh
Tonnes of food items America are weirdly coloured, bleached eggs, orange cheese, very very pale butter.
Dasani's bottles are blue in the US because CocaCola is trying to get activate the subconscious connection between the color blue, cold temperatures, and bodies of clean water that reflect the blue sky. No other bottled water in the US does this to the extent CocaCola does, although almost all of them use blue or blue-on-white labels on clear bottles.
Incidentally, the more fancy mineral waters and sparkling waters in the US often use green glass bottles.
@@ioioire4684 in all fairness, the eggs aren't bleached. Americans just prefer white-shelled eggs, so they're laid from varieties of hen that naturally lay white eggs.
@@ioioire4684 The pale butter is probably because the cattle are grain fed. No chlorophyll from grass means no yellow colour.
Bloody hell, I always thought the whole "camera moving backwards down the road as you walk towards it" bit was just an establishing shot, but you did it for the whole video.
What's an establishing shot?
@@bopeeplauerent676 like in a tv show especially comedy when they show the "outside of the building" just to show where the characters are....you know set the scene
@@dorcasingasha8559 I see, thanks
@@bopeeplauerent676 Also called a framing device or framing shot in the industry.
it's like a Scorsese pic
I'm blown away at your ability to go 10 minutes in ONE TAKE.
2:51 Thanks for the heads-up.
Can't wait to finally see you in a full 2h-long Documentary.
- Hundreds of names
- Many dozens of quotes
- all in one continuous shot
+
I second this! 😁👍
This would be truly amazing. Has anyone ever done a one take that long?
@@1234567895182 Any decent lecturer?
@@1234567895182 there's a fairly old russian film that was a single take, it's nearly two hours i think?
Not a documentary though.
Can we just appreciate the pacing of this video that got Tom in the perfect spot for the pan to the factory? I understand it was probably rehearsed but still impressive regardless.
Wonder how many steps Tom got in the day they filmed this.
If you look closely you can see hes pacing himself with half steps haha
@@djschuby04 at least 3
@@egnaro-hm1bd Still well done.
Very good reporting & reference to "Only Fools & Horses"! Brilliant.
09:10 That's all that's left of the previous guy that tried 1 take. Didn't time the lorry quite right!
LOLZ LOLZ hahahaha
Tom's previous clone.
Tom respawned
Good spot dude
Lmao
"Here, comes a LORRY." Nice. I love how concise Scott's videos are. Simple premise that can be explained within a reasonably short amount of time. That single take was amazing. Good work Scott and the camera person.
Reasonably short amount of time? 10 minutes to say that there was a "a contamination issue that was attacked by newspapers and referenced an old comedy skit forever tainted (ha ha) the name Dasani in England" is reasonably short??
@@Mike__B Yup.
don't forget the lorry
@@Mike__B He's British. Along with the language, they practically invented chewing your words or as I like to call it, verbally dicking around.
@@Prototheria I figured, I mean I'm old enough that I'm not Generation A.D.D. or anything, but I found myself clicking ahead just to "get to the bloody point!"
I live round there. Tom's experience with the idiots in cars is par for the course. Weidly, I was living in the UK in 2004, down the road from that bottling plant, and I never at any point noticed or heard about Dasani water. Just ignorant, I suppose.
How the hell did this guy do this in one take! Also timed it perfect for the factory.. Bravo sir!
Imagine the mindset of a driver who goes "Oh, someone's filming something? I'm going to deliberately try to make his day worse by sounding my horn."
I was reading this comment then the car horn happened
You wouldn't wanna film in Indian streets
Isn’t it entirely possible that the car honking was unrelated to the video?
@@queen_simp3273 it was a van fulla geezers avin a bubble
Something like that shouldn't make your day worse 😂😂 stop being sensitive.
This should be #1 on trending. The research and effort that Tom puts into his content puts many UA-camr's to shame. Keep up the excellent work
Yes robbo
Especially his ability to do it all and recite everything verbatim without a script. I could've done without the busy road, but his well timed passing by the plant was a bravo moment
No the godzilla music video holds that spot rightfully so
No it shouldn't🤣🤣 I like his videos but definitely not a #1 trending I mean cmon fanboy calm down
Also trending based on a spike of views based off the average a video usually gets on the channel.
I could listen to you talk all day … and night 😊
Dasani was originally intended to be sold in a glass bottle, but bacteria thwarted that plan if I remember correctly.
"Why You Can't Buy Dasani Water in Britain"
Me: Well there's no way I can sleep without knowing the answer.
Same and I live in Sweden 😂
Either just spend 10 mins in the middle of the night or...
Suffer through a few hours of sleep longing to figure out the answer, exhaust your self by constantly using your brain to find a solution, and wake up sleep deprived only to figure out that the rest of your day is going to be sleepless even if the answer has been established to you
I dont need sleep... i need answers
Funny!
literally same
This guy was 10 secs off of 10 mins
Careful, he’s a hero
Just 10 sec!! Awwwwwwwww...
I always find these jokes funny because the length of time apperently don’t do anything (within reason)
HonestlyAnnoying 10 minutes is the length needed for monetization
@@oxybrightdark8765 no, it's not.
@@oxybrightdark8765 If your video is at least 10 minutes long you can manually add mid-roll ads to it, as many as you want
Ironically there is a river that springs about 3 miles to the south of there, if they’d wanted to do it properly
I literally remember my mum telling me about how coca cola tried to sell tap water when I was a kid, and her just sounding so completely outraged and implying that it was this disgusting scam that coca cola had pulled. British people did NOT take it well!
There's a kind of pleasure in seeing a corporation as big as Cola-Cola completely failing at something, even if the media outrage was over nothing.
It wasn't over nothing. Adding a few minerals (which you could probably do at home) to regular ass (free where I live) tap water doesn't justify bottled water prices. Clearly people didn't think it was tap water. Yes it's all water, but that doesn't give the company the right to mis-sell it as something it's not.
@@Person01234 it was far from nothing.. Totally agree. Feel like a Coke exec was trying to dismiss the issue.
@@Person01234 They never “mis-sold” the product, though. The UK’s consumers worked themselves up because they had _convinced themselves_ Coca-Cola was mislabeling. They were absolutely transparent in what they were selling and each and every bottle _told you_ exactly what it was. Still water treated with minerals. That’s what a large portion of this video covered. 18 years later and people are still dense as f**k.
@@wrije Incorrect. Legally, they did nothing wrong, obviously. But the "dense" thing would be to claim that companies don't play upon cultural perceptions of things in order to imply their product is something more expensive or desirable than it actually is. Which is exactly what they did. They know how UK consumers take the words to mean, not because they're dense but because that's what it literallly always means in that market, and they use that to sell a cheaper to make product for the same price, or at least not adequately cheaper.
Corporations won't date you.
That's all the media does, if one doesn't overreact another one will
tom: "At their bottling plant, in Sidcup, right....there"
*Camera pans *
me: *slowly sits back in chair, smiles, applauds*
did you actually applaud though
WELL DID YOU?
Sidcup Strong!
Well played Tom
actually insane production
Excellent video, love the random gloves in the road towards the end 😂
the cinematography is incredible