Egg blood hits

iamloser999 · Post by **iamloser999** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:25 pm

For the movie The MAnson Family theres a documentary on how they made it and it shows the director taking an egg and hollowing it out and filling it with blood. he used this instead of a squib and just threw it as an actor. in the movie with the quick cutting it seemed to work well.
Has anyone tried this before with success at all??????

NPMAX · Post by **NPMAX** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:31 pm

I know a the guy that was credited with some of the FX on that flick, pm me I'll direct you to a board he frequents.

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:31 pm

sounds kinda stupid, you'd see the shells and why not just use a squib?

UFProductions · Post by **UFProductions** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:48 pm

Because:

Egg= 12 cents
&
Squib= In excess of $50 (for the real thing) + potentially dangerous

NPMAX · Post by **NPMAX** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:11 pm

On camera you can't tell it's an egg either. More to it than what it appears.

pdj · Post by **pdj** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:31 am

Sounds interesting. Is there any certain technique to doing this?

NPMAX · Post by **NPMAX** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:42 am

If you want I'll link you over to the guy that did these FX in THe Manson Family.

http://www.b-independent.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl

I go by Nate Maxey over there, introduce yourself and I'll put you touch with the guy.

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:28 am

pdj wrote:Sounds interesting. Is there any certain technique to doing this?

HAHAHA OMFG.... yeah the technique is the old overhand throw.

If you threw the egg hard enough would the shells fly off screen and not be noticed? could they be masked out later? these are the things you gotta think about.

freed · Post by **freed** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:18 pm

If you color the egg in with a red marker or paint, and it as the egg shels splat off it could look like bits of flesh. Just an idea.

Mr.Anderson · Post by **Mr.Anderson** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:37 am

I've done some egg throwing before(dont ask) and it seems like a hollow egg could break in your hand from the force of you just rearing back and throwing it so hard. I dunno. I'll try it sometime, cus if it did actually work that would be a very nice alternative to the squib which I dont have any money to buy. Someone should make a test video and post it. I would like to see this before i actually attempt to throw an egg full of very clothes staining liquid.

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:48 am

hollow out, permanent marker the outside, put a little bit of red food coloring on inside, shake, let dry, then fill it with blood.

pdj · Post by **pdj** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:33 am

aaronv2 you may think it is as easy as lobbing an egg over your head but, after speaking to the gentleman who worked on special effects in Ã¢â‚¬ËœThe Manson FamilyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ I found out there are a few things that you wouldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think to doÃ¢â‚¬Â¦but since you seem to be a know it all I wont bother recounting them

NPMAX · Post by **NPMAX** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:48 pm

Andy hooked you up then huh Pete?

Mr.Anderson · Post by **Mr.Anderson** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:55 am

Do they actually throw it? Or do they have some sort of air powered, i dunno, mini-cannon to launch it?

OutcastJiob · Post by **OutcastJiob** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:14 am

That right there, Mr.Anderson, is a good idea. A sort of mini spud gun that you stuff a blood pack in (the usual latex type, of course) and then fire at the actor. It'd only work for body shots--too risky to aim at the head--, and, only from short range, but still, it seems to be a fairly inexpensive way to get nice blood hits. I might just have to build one of those for some testing!

Vor · Post by **Vor** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:02 am

maybe a slingshot would work, or it might just break the egg....

pdj · Post by **pdj** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:31 am

Yeah he did NPMAX thanks to you- much appreciated

SpyroClone · Post by **SpyroClone** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:23 am

well, this sounds terribly interesting and cheap as hell. I think I'm gonna go test it out.

jackbauer24 · Post by **jackbauer24** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:38 am

I tested this method out but with mixed results. Firstly was that my friend watched me while I threw the egg at him, so he flinched, and when it is finally cropped, it does not look that good. But, the blood effects looked good and I could hardly even see the eggshell.

My advice would be to not let your actor see the person throwing it, so that they will not flinch before impact, and their immediate response would look genuine.

SpyroClone · Post by **SpyroClone** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:55 am

jackbauer24 wrote:I tested this method out but with mixed results. Firstly was that my friend watched me while I threw the egg at him, so he flinched, and when it is finally cropped, it does not look that good. But, the blood effects looked good and I could hardly even see the eggshell.

My advice would be to not let your actor see the person throwing it, so that they will not flinch before impact, and their immediate response would look genuine.

That's probably true...i never really considered flinching..good advice.

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