Blog Post #31 - Special Effects: Blood

 Special Effects are an essential part of a film, they allow the filmmakers to effectively portray their story, by creating a more convincing image. In my project, I plan to use blood to portray the killing of a person.


In my Blog Post #25 - Security Camera Footage, I developed my idea to incorporate black and white, low-fidelity video into my project to recreate the visual tell of a security camera. In this blog post, I will outline my idea to use fake blood, or other liquids, to create a special effects illusion of the spilling of blood, onto the person whom the Killer is chasing in my film.


I will do this by having the person who gets stabbed by the killer in the footage throw up fake blood, to look like blood is pouring out of them, in order to increase the effect of the killer "stabbing" them. The person who will be acting out this is Lilli, and I, Eddie Mendoza will act as the killer instead. 


I'm going to test whether different colors dyed of water or fake blood is more effective on a black and white camera at appearing different from the dark background of the video.

To test this, I will be editing these two pictures into black and white, with the same settings I will use for my security camera footage.



This is a picture of green dye being poured into the Chicago river, and it is supposed to represent light-color dyed water being splashed in my project.


This is fake blood, and I'm comparing it against the dyed water.




The before and after results are clear, dyed water is much more obvious against a dark background— compared to dark red fake blood. But, Even given this, I am not sure that it will be better on camera, given water will be more transparent then fake blood. I will conduct an experiment to see which is more viable.

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