BLOOD MAKING
To make our horror film gory and scary, we need blood. Our group split into 4 smaller groups and each made fake blood out of different edible materials. One group made it out of chocolate powder, another gravy granules, peanut butter and lastly coffee and mixed each with hot water. The making of the gravy blood is shown in the video below.
After making the different types of blood we then went outside and tested each type. Cody and Tona were the people who were testing them. They did this by putting each blood one at a time into there mouths and acted as if they were spitting up blood onto themselves, they repeated this with each one. We then tested them by throwing each type of blood at them to see how it would splat and see the results of which blood type worked best for this. We also tested out the peanut butter blood as guts, Cody tested this acting as a zombie eating it off of Tona.
In conclusion we found some blood worked better than others and also some worked better for certain types of blood than others. We found that the coffee blood worked the best as it was more liquidy and looked the best. However, we found the peanut butter blood worked the best for the look of guts as it was thick unlike the other types.
We found the gravy blood and the coffee blood were the best to throw as they spread and splatted easily.
We found the peanut butter blood the worst as it was too thick, stiff and wasn't runny.
We found the gravy blood and the coffee blood were the best to throw as they spread and splatted easily.
We found the peanut butter blood the worst as it was too thick, stiff and wasn't runny.
Recipes and Professional examples
To make our blood types we used easy recipes. Such as for our gravy blood we used the recipe of:
- Gravy granules
- Red food colouring
- Hot water
Professional make-up/special effects artists use lots of different types of bloods with a range of different colours and thicknesses. The head of makeup for the 2013 film Carrie has said that "The most common is corn syrup with food dyes".
I found that the Grand Guignol - The Parisian Theater that was known for its horror plays, used boiled dried insects such as the cochineal bug with a form of red pigment to make there fake blood, which when it has cooled coagulated and created some good scabs. It is said there recipe also includes carmine pigment and glycerol and also methulcellulose to thicken it.
Herschell Gordon Lewis's recipe including red dye and kaopectate (diarreahl remedy).
The Kensington Gore recipe includes golden syrup, warm water, food colouring and corn starch (for opacity).
I got these recipes along with others from a youtube video which is found below.
I found that the Grand Guignol - The Parisian Theater that was known for its horror plays, used boiled dried insects such as the cochineal bug with a form of red pigment to make there fake blood, which when it has cooled coagulated and created some good scabs. It is said there recipe also includes carmine pigment and glycerol and also methulcellulose to thicken it.
Herschell Gordon Lewis's recipe including red dye and kaopectate (diarreahl remedy).
The Kensington Gore recipe includes golden syrup, warm water, food colouring and corn starch (for opacity).
I got these recipes along with others from a youtube video which is found below.