Blood Splatter Planning the shot

Blood Splatter:

The environment and make up go hand in hand when blood splatter is being used. So, using my director's blogs and my blogs, we were able to understand what the environmental blood splatter should look like. Before getting the results and stills we need the blood for the practice. 

Making the blood:

As mentioned in the blog of What Fake Blood Should be used? -Research the blood needs to be lighter away from the body while it is closer it needs to be darker so lets make a batch that can work. 

Failed Attempted:

The first try had too much blue that overpowered the red, making a brownish color. Mainly due to the quality of the red dye being a lighter, less harsh tone. Which is something normal, blood is not.

Failed Attempted

However, this can be fixed by getting another type of dye to changing the color a bit.

Successful Attempted:

This attempt I got a cheap, bright and vibrant dye and made it, so the red looked like a plat red before adding other colors to it. This time around I was quite scared to add blue, so I used a substitute color: green with a pinch of yellow. This was a success with the concertation bunch being darker and when away lighter. So, I do not need to make two batches.

Final Product

 Knife With the Blood On:

To make this blood look right, we need the blood to cover the knife in a realistic way with the knife needing blood being dumped on. This is a practice in the kitchen sink:

Blood on Knife Test:

This looks good even thought this batch of blood is darker, this still looks good. Maybe little a bit off on the blood near the handle and green coloring, but this looks good enough to be in the film.

Overall Take Away

The blood I made is overall well made in my opinion. With the more attractive red drawing your eyes more to the blood than the grey knife. This allows my main worry of the knife not being realistic enough is physically covered.