Monday, June 20

Fake blood, you rock me like the real thing

My buddy and I had quite the adventure after work. As you all know, we are soon going to be making a zombie movie (probably the best zombie movie ever). Well, as we were writing it, we realized, "What's a zombie movie without massive and gruesome amounts of fake blood?" So for the past couple of days, we've been researching how to make fake blood. What we found is that it's surprisingly easy. Some gelatin, some egg whites, a little bit of Kool-Aid, some cocoa, and water . . . boil and stir, and bada-bing-bang-boom, you got yourself bonafide fake blood.
After discovering this concoction, we decided that we needed to have some way to project said fake blood. All it takes is a little tweaking with a pressurized pesticide sprayer and some tubing, and bam: you've got yourself a squib. ("A squib is a small explosive about the size of a firecracker. It is often used in the special effects industry to simulate a bullet hit." -Wikipedia.org)
Of course, we needed a place to test our new toys, so we figured the parking lot was a good enough place. However, given the amount of foot traffic . . . well, I don't think any of our neighbors think we're normal anymore. But dude, you should've seen it. It was rad! Next time I'll get video and post it here so all y'all can partake in the goodness that is zombie movie special effects.

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