Blood Workshop Aims

For our Blood Workshop our aim was to create and discover the most effective and realistic blood to be a possibility for our own Horror Trailer. By doing this we could experiment and decide what sort of tone we wanted for our film trailer and whether or not the blood and the gory genre could actually work.

Making Artificial Blood

We used a variety of possible ingredients to create our fake blood and chose from one edible recipe and one un-editable recipe.

The first recipe was an edible one where we used honey, Red Food Dye and also Blue Food Dye to create a darker and more realistic blood like look. Furthermore, for our second recipe we made use of a wider variety of ingredients consisting of; Washing up liquid, Red Food Dye, Blue Food Dye, Ketchup and Honey. We used both of these recipes to test out which one would be the best possible choice to use if we did end up using blood for our Opening.

During the workshop we took videos and pictures of the Blood making and we then decided to individually create videos to show what we had done for our Research.

This was my final video edit for the Blood Workshop:

Conclusions

The workshop concluded with us discovering that although the washing up liquid with also added flour for a clotted affect created a perfect consistency it became very runny and unrealistically colored when applied to clothing. This was not the case for the honey blood recipe and it stayed thick and realistic when applied as when see when the blood is applied from out of the cup in the last few scenes.

Overall we concluded that if we were to use blood for our trailers we would use the honey recipe to ensure the most effective and realistic look is created.