Fake Blood

originally posted by Craig on May 25, 2007

Well, we tested out the fake blood splatter effect tonight. Sadly, it looks horrible. Yeah, it would work for a cheap gunshot wound, but not for the splatter effect I need. Looks like I’ll be doing more green screen work as I try to composite the blood into the scene. I need Tom Savini!

The fake blood we used looks very realistic though. It’s nothing more than a cup of water, one TBS of flour (boiled for 15 minutes), and Black Cherry Kool-aid mix. It smells yummy and looks great on video. Yeah, my alien is going to have red blood. It just looks cooler than some funky color. I could do the old florescent blood trick a la Predator, but that’s been done before.

Tomorrow night is the big shoot! Hope everything goes well. I’m getting nervous…