Have you ever wondered or even ever wanted to make fake blood for one of your productions? Well now you can! The history of this all began in 1894 at a french theater called The Grand Guignol which was famous for their horror productions, it was here where fake blood started getting attention. They made this blood by mixing Vegetable Glycerine, Red, Yellow, and Blue Food Coloring. When black and white movies became a thing people like Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero would use chocolate syrup for blood, perfect with its thick and oozy texture. In color movies they substituted the base and changed the mixture a lot. They call this variation Kensington Gore, it includes golden syrup, food coloring, water, corn starch, and some peppermint extract, it's a little sticky but at least it tastes okay with its peppermint extract. Some thought that this version was too red so a man by the name of Dick Smith came up with this method that is now used widely throughout modern day. This mixture is made with corn syrup, water, food coloring, coffee creamer, liquid lecithin, and yet again peppermint extract for taste. Finally there is the clean up and for this you can use shaving cream as it keeps it from staining and also moisturizes the skin.
I thought this video was great. The video was very interesting and will come to be very helpful in the future when making films. I just really like how it showed many variations at cheap price to make blood. In my opinion the only bad part about this video was that it was just a little long, that being said though I didn't mind as it just gave more info. so I guess it's bitter sweet. The article was very straight forward as well which made it super easy to understand. I would say this sides with more of the film side of Digital Media. Overall awesome article.
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