Practical Task - Gore/special effects - Louise Hyam

Practical Task:

For my practical task I decided to make gore and special effects that were suitable to what would be needed for the actors in our opening scene. For one part of my practical task I created a fake wound on the side of someones face and this will be present in our film opening scene on the girl who is running away from the murderer.

What did I use to make the fake wound?
- Fake Blod
- Glue
- Face Paint
- Makeup Brushes

The reason I chose these items to make the fake wound was because the fake blood can act as the blood within the wound and the glue was able to act as skin that was raised or cut and was inflamed. I used face paint to use the colours such as green to create a more dirty and infected look to the fake wound and I used the makeup brushes to apply all of this to the skin.
Below is a picture of all of the items i used throughout my practical task:

For the fake wound that I made that was on the face firstly I added glue to act as the skin and make it looked inflamed and raised from the skin to show the initial stages of a cut or wound on the side of a face.

After using the glue to act as skin I put a thin layer of fake blood over the top so that this would act as blood on top of raised skin however I only used a thin layer so that it didn't look too unrealistic otherwise the colour wouldn't have been to believable and the blood may have looked to red and the colour wouldn't have been right so I only used a thin layer as shown below.

Next after adding the fake blood onto the glue which was used as skin I added fake blood around the side to  make it look more realistic as blood smudges and doesn't stay in one place when someone is injured or wounded so i added it around the side of the wound and in between the glue that was acting as skin.

For the last step of the fake wound on the face I used face paint. I used face paint to make the fake wound look more dirty and make it seem like it was more realistic with bits of dirt in and so the fake wound wasn't so clean I added green and black face paint mixed together over parts of the fake wound.

This is my final product:

For the second part of my practical task I created another fake wound but this one was on the hand. I did the one on the hand to represent a stab wound that has bled quite a lot. For this wound I used the same products as before for the facial fake wound and I also followed the exact same steps.

For the first stage I added the glue to act as the raised skin like I did so in the previous fake wound.

After adding that I added the fake blood thinly again then I applied the face paint to make the same dirty looking effect on the stab wound in the hand.

This is my final product for the fake wound on the hand:

What went well?

The things that I think well about my practical task creating these fake wounds is that I think that the one on the face looks realistic with the shaping of it and the way that it is laid out on the face. I also think the idea of face paint to make it look dirty also worked well and created a good effect.

What would I improve?

For our opening scene when doing fake wounds the thing I think I would use for the skin being raised and cut instead of glue would be something better and easier to apply to skin. I would probably use liquid latex next time for our opening scene.