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poonhead · Post by **poonhead** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 6:34 am

The blood on all the actors is corn syrup with blue, yellow and red food colouring. The guts in the mostly-eaten-dummy are simply made with monofoam. Then painted with glossy red acrylic paint. All the blood on the dummies is red acrylic paint.

poonhead · Post by **poonhead** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 6:36 am

If anyof the moderators want to attach this whole thread to the other thread I made, that would be cool. I didn't mean to start a whole new thread, just to reply to the last post in my old thread.

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 7:03 am

Aww it's okay, I like seeing threads with my name in it

THANKS REALLY MUCH!

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:51 am

apart from the fact that u dont say 'thanks really much'

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:08 am

the blood on the actors looks too purple for my idea of blood... or at least hoolywoods... however the blood on the dummies looks extremely good... although you might want to think about adding bits of recognisable features on the dummies so that the zombies havent eaten all of his face... even if it a latex ear thats been chewed on still on his skull... thats just my idea... because i think the transition between the bones to the pelvis and leg area that is untouched looks a little weird

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:09 am

yeah the flesh inside the trousers is really gd.. the head, like said is a bit too 'clean'

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:11 am

geez lorenzo that was click i only just hit reply... also try to fix up how he has no arms... or did the zombies pull em off so they could snack on em as they look for more brains? cause thats what zombies eat! its true!

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:16 am

its the best when the car runs the guy over

poonhead · Post by **poonhead** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 10:11 am

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your comments and suggestions. Lorenzo_amateur_prods, I explain teh car stunt in the other thread.
Insert_coin, I like the idea of a chewed up ear and will look into that. Great gruesome detail.
As for the blood looking purple, I want to defend it because it doesn't look that purple in the real video. Maybe in some of those badly lit, high 8 stills it looks purple, but I contend in the trailer, when the guy with the goatee has blood in his face, and glass in his head, that it's not purple, it's good blood red.
But then again, I am sounding defensive. I might be wrong. I have noticed that if you mix blood indoors with standard lightbulb lighting, it looks purple-ish outside, because indoor lighting is so yellow. I've always tried to account for this.

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Sun Sep 07, 2003 11:53 am

trailer blood is very real.. or at least looks it

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:04 pm

Probably the goreist thing here and it looks good.

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Sun Sep 07, 2003 5:25 pm

quite a level of professionality conseriding hi8

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:09 pm

I've watched the trailer and it looks good, nice and gory - just what I like!

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:10 pm

done very well

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:44 pm

Was the red acrylic paint, spraypaint or regular paint? I am starving to do an effect like that. By the way, I can't wait til I see that movie finished.

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:34 pm

well acrylic id think...

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:00 pm

LOL i was just about to yell in here when you said hi8 i thaught about super8 and wondering where your getting the money for the film and etc... but its cool and im stupid... i really wish i could afford to use film i love the stuff... /me rolls in film... film rolls? argh and im not even high. i gotta get outside.

oh p.s i wanna know everyones thaughts on using real blood... like animal blood. do u think its gross or what? if you told your actors it was artifical but used real blood do u think they would find out? and sue your a**? hmm but theres health and viral issues too.. hmm oh well! LOOK! ITS LOLA! SHES RUNNING! GO LOLA GO!

poonhead · Post by **poonhead** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:36 pm

I had a teacher in art school who had sheep guts and blood, poured over him for a some piece of performance art. A day or two later, after he had showered a whole bunch, his ear started bleeding. He had developed a terrible infection which apparently lasted months. Everyday he would wake up with his head stuck to his pillow. Then his doctor gave him a powder to put in his ear every night. His head still stuck to his pillow, just with a lot of powder and blood this time. The whole thing sounded pretty terrible.
Movies like Day of the Dead used real animal guts and organs but they were kept in a fridge and washed of all real blood; then covered in the fake stuff. I love the way that looked.
The acrylic paint I used was Naphthol Crimson, and I painted it on with a brush. Then I covered that with acrylic gloss varnish, also with a brush, to make it look wet.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 12:03 am

Ya I wouldn't even cover my actors with real blood and I can be a mean director, thats just, well I wouldn't even be on set, hate real blood, animal or not.

XeFx309 · Post by **XeFx309** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:17 am

Originally posted by insert_coin
oh p.s i wanna know everyones thaughts on using real blood... like animal blood. do u think its gross or what? if you told your actors it was artifical but used real blood do u think they would find out? and sue your a**? hmm but theres health and viral issues too.. hmm oh well! LOOK! ITS LOLA! SHES RUNNING! GO LOLA GO!

That's disgusting! Not in a funny way either.

Lorenzo_amateur_prods · Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:44 pm

blood is cool but no way on set, morally and hygenically speaking its against human behaviour.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:28 pm

and truthfuly real blood is so removed from holloywood blood that most think it is fake.

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