Gore-iffic! Adventures In Splatter.

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A short film submitted to a 36 hour competition by Rachel Bennett. I was on-board to do a bit of makeup work. Because of timing, the greater portion of the work didn’t make it into the film, but if you squint your eyes, you’ll catch a glimpse of a skull that was dressed for the “opening the box” shot. A slashed throat was scheduled and I regret not getting that into the shots, as out test on it looked beautiful.

Sunday: Shoot 3

Meet the Meat!

We got started early and had three zombies to make-up. It was audio hell. I have to say, shooting on location is less desirable than shooting on a nice static set. We had some gelatine effects and the mix had to be kept hot. When we went to the set, up a massive hill and into the woods, I thought a camping stove might not be needed.

It was! The gel effects started coming loose due to all the physical activity of one zombie and the other two talking while waiting for their scenes. (Zombies don’t talk! I kept tellin’ them). Well it all worked out after I brought the warming pot up.

We even got to splatter Zombie 3 with our gore cannon, we have yet to give an official name to. (My vote is “Professor Blast-O”) and I was very happy with the “bloody viscera” for head/scalp-wounding.

More to come next weekend.

-Oubliette

Saturday shoot: Part 2

So, I aimed for bruised since this character likely had to fight their way free from the hospital/lab and added some bleeding gauze bandages with a dangling I.V. tube dripping blood.

We also needed to give him a tattoo on his neck, “M-EX-095” which came out as well as I expected though the skin tone was challenging

We feel the effect was fairly effective.

Saturday shoot: Part 1

We arrived early to shoot a small section of film, the lab escapee Dino running through a forest with a vial of “zombie antidote” or some such. It was pink so it might just turn regular turtles into ninja fighting turtles, I’m unsure.

The character was to look “beat up” and “experimented on”. Aside from needle tracks and vein bruises, I wasn’t sure what “experimented on” should look like but we soldiered on.

ZOMBIE MAKEUP TEST

So here’s my test set for the zombies. The director wants subtle but we also want to know there’s something messed up about these things. We don’t want to mistake the zombies for a throng of angry Portland drunks right?

So, I’m focusing on eye and mouth area hemorrhaging. The eyes and lips have very thin skin and you’ll see bruising there first, the same with the ears though there’s not a lot of blood flow here. I’m also shadowing the cheeks and highlighting the bones of the face. I don’t know how far Martin wants to go with that.

The black goop should come from the mouth and nose. Black vomit is a sign you’re bleeding from your stomach and is an exclamation point on the sign that reads “you’re going to die soon”.

It’s 2:30 am and I have to be at a shoot at 7 am. I’m, how do you say, “fooked”. Time for some scant shut-eye. More to come!

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Saturday and we were there for the “bleeding hand scene. The director said we could have the prop guy do the blood but I’ll be damned if I wouldn’t be there to make it look as realistic as possible (no offense prop guy) with my nice thick blood recipe.

I’m still waiting to see the shots from the day. 6 takes on that and just enough blood for it. The syringe gave me lots of room to play with the arterial pumping motion on the blood. I wonder if the camera captures that.