Making Blood
This video was apart of our planning as we successfully created 'realistic blood'. We did a blood workshop to determine which recipe looked the most effective. We came to the conclusion that our blood looked the most effective in contrast to the others. It had the perfect consistency and the correct colour, which looked brilliant on white, as you can see from the video below. The weaknesses of the other blood was either it was too thick, or the colour didn't look effective on the camera as it was pale. The peanut butter blood was too thick, this had a significant impact as the blood didn't look real enough to be able to look presentable when dribbling it out, as that is the whole concept of edible blood. The Chocolate blood had the right thickness, however it lacked the depth of the correct colour. Abbie spat it out on a white forensic costume and failed to look dark red, as it was more of an orange colour. We have concluded that we are going to use the recipe for the 'realistic blood'. This recipe consisted of: 2/3 c. Corn Syrup, 1/3 c. Warm Water, 5 Tbsp Corn Starch, 4 tsp red food colouring, 1 tbsp of Powdered Cocoa, 2 drops of green or yellow food colouring.
We had to practice making blood, because of the fact that blood is a major convention of horror and contributes highly. Also we wanted to find out which blood was the best for us as a group. There was different bloods that we could choose from, there was the, Chocolate Blood, Realistic blood (which was the blood that we chose), Gravy Blood, Simple fake blood, and cheap and easy blood, and as you can see from above we found out all the recipes from all the blood. We thought that realistic blood was the one for us because, when you are spitting the blood out, you don't want the blood to look pale.
By Matt Lavis & Angus Biggar