The Search For Fake Blood!

 Yesterday I decided to start thinking about props. The main prop I was concerned about was the blood for the first scene. I've never really known much about blood props, so my first task was to read about it. i found that a homemade mixture was pretty common. The homemade mixture is made out of corn syrup, food coloring, and water. I figured this was easy enough to make at home for our movies. I also read that you could use dish soap and red food coloring. This sounded like the easiest one because I have dish soap at home. When we film this scene, I think I will try the dish soap blood first. I wanted to make sure I had a backup plan though, incase the dish soap didn't look good. So I decided to go with Dara to target to see if they sold fake blood. After looking around for a while, we couldn't find any. So I suggested we go to a costume store. Once we were there we asked an employee if they sold fake blood. He said that they did and led us to the area. I only bought one bottle because I didn't think we would need much. Also I still planned to make our own. I can't wait until we film this scene. I hope the blood will look realistic


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