Making Blood
This video was apart of our planning as we successfully created 'realistic blood'. We did a blood workshop to determine which recipe looked the most effective. We came to the conclusion that our blood looked the most effective in contrast to the others. It had the perfect consistency and the correct colour, which looked brilliant on white, as you can see from the video below. The weaknesses of the other blood was either it was too thick, or the colour didn't look effective on the camera as it was pale. The peanut butter blood was too thick, this had a significant impact as the blood didn't look real enough to be able to look presentable when dribbling it out, as that is the whole concept of edible blood. The Chocolate blood had the right thickness, however it lacked the depth of the correct colour. Abbie spat it out on a white forensic costume and failed to look dark red, as it was more of an orange colour. We have concluded that we are going to use the recipe for the 'realistic blood'. This recipe consisted of: 2/3 c. Corn Syrup, 1/3 c. Warm Water, 5 Tbsp Corn Starch, 4 tsp red food colouring, 1 tbsp of Powdered Cocoa, 2 drops of green or yellow food colouring.
By Chloe Young
For our overall pitch we decided to base our media lesson making a range of fake blood. This is to be used on the vampires mouth and down the victim. There will be multiple splashes of blood dribbling down our victim to show his desperation and the initial idea of the victim state. The blood needed to look thick and dark so we focused on the peanut butter blood and the realistic blood, we tested them on a white sheet to see which one would appear to look better which enabled us to decide on using the realistic blood which was our own. Over all, the whole journey of creating blood was really exciting and elaborating for us to do, it allowed us to realise that we can create realistic looking blood without spending that much money or taking that much time to do it to be honest.
By Nicole Russell
By Nicole Russell
During AS media we did a blood workshop to practice making fake blood and see which ones looked the most effective. We even practiced with washing liquid blood which was effective in large quantities. The chocolate fake blood created a good splatter effect so movies that would involve blood splatter would most likely use this blood. The realistic blood was also one of the most effective of the bloods as it had the right constancy and colour. We had to wear white or light clothing during the work shop as it help the blood show up more and has been used in many film trailers and opening titles.
By Kirsty.
By Kirsty.
The Jelly Bath was extremely effective when turning the bath thick, although we had to add further colouring as it avoided the deep dark colour of blood. When we picked up the bath that was Jelly it turned clear, therefore we used fake blood to rub on our bodies for our trailer. ALthough the texture was not pleasant at all. We were first considering just washing up liquid with red food colouring, although we looked at the expense and waste. We then developed the idea of using real animal blood, however it would most likely make one of us ill by washing ourselves in pigs blood. This then led to the idea of Jelly Bath, which worked well with what we wanted to achieve.
By Chloe Young
By Chloe Young
By Kirsty.