Independent Research 1

 

How to make fake guts

From the feedback we got, our production group quickly realised that using a fake body with manufactured parts to show it was a body would create a more dramatic effect as we could make it look more mutilated than on an actual person with special effects makeup - and this would be hard to make it look realistic. 

I decided to do an independent research on how to make fake guts so we could effectively use this in the process of making the 'body' look like its been massacred. The image down below would hopefully be the final result that we could achieve and put under the costume, this would imply that it was some sort of supernatural being that did this attack.

  

The process of how you make this, consists of many different steps but the method is simple and all the 'ingredients' can all be found at home so we don't have to spend money on getting the products needed. I've linked a recipe for scar wax which you can then put on skin and carve blood/ symbols into which will be very useful for the symbolic side of our sequence. We would also have to make fake blood; the ingredients for this is red food dye, cornstarch, water and onion flakes - this is added onto the scar wax and rolled up in cling film for the perfect fake guts effect which I feel will make big improvements to our opening sequence. 

We would make multiple of these fake guts with more blood than used initially though applying the fake blood to not only the cotton but also on the scar wax as this will help us achieve a more gory look. We will also combine the guts with meat pieces to exaggerate how much of the girls body has been damaged. 

The recipe for the 2 pots of scar wax are also linked to this page but you only need petroleum jelly and flour - we would add slightly more petroleum jelly to make it stick to the cling film better.