Blood Splatters

In our teaser trailer, we are experimenting with having the logo of our cult in blood on a white wall, the dripping effect we'd like it to have should be intensely eerie and we'd like a lingering close up to play on this and the convention of horror that's

This is an example of written words in blood on a wall. This one is not as effective as the colour is too red and it looks more 2D. However taking the basic ideas of both the above we should be able to create a realistic logo for our trailer.

This one looks unrealistic as the colour is too bright and red. The splatter is largely spread and looks like a typical TV gun shot. However the 1st picture is more what we were looking for in our teaser trailer.

Blood recipes!

RECIPES:
1) Add blue and red food colouring to a small amount of golden syrup. Add 1/2 tsp flour and stir thoroughly.

THICKENERS:
Dry thickener:
1) Add sifted flour and gently mix. If small lumps form, wait for them to rise to the top and then remove.

Wet thickener:
1) Stir in chocolate syrup until the desired consistency is reached. Let the mixture sit for 10 minutes in a warm place so it has time to thicken.
2) Put some hair gel (water soluble) for the amount of blood you want. Add red food colouring and a small amount of chocolate syrup. Add a small amount of hand sanitizer until right consistency is reached.



This is the red food colouring dripped into water,
it gives an interesting swirling effect!



















Mixing hair gel into red and green food colouring,
trying to build a consistency.





Testing the blood onto skin to see how the colour
contrasted against skin and the realism of the consistency.





Added a small amount of cocoa powder
 for a more realistic, darker colour.





This one is simply the green and red food colouring
with just water and cocoa powder, it comes out darker
 against the skin.





Testing out dripping the blood.





Attempting to create the symbol from the blood.
The absorbency of the tissue meant it started to
spread and clot slightly.
Against a harder surface like perhaps
 a white board or porcelain it should retain shape
and drip down more realistically.