arm wound pt 2

As well as making the fake arm with wound, we also had to make a latex wound that would go on the actors arm, for wider shots. I think that we left this a bit late so when we made it, though it looked good on its own, on the actors arm it didn't really work.

The main problem was that the colour of the latex wound didn't match the actors skin tone, so it really stood out. It looked really unrealistic. We also had problems trying to secure the wound to the actor - this is something that we overlooked.We ended up using some plasters that someone luckily had on them. This meant that all the shots had to be ECUs.

filming the kitchen scene

We filmed a lot of the different sequences this week. We did the scene in which the blood was falling down the walls and the kitchen section in which the hand was chopped up.

I think the hand chopping scene was really successful. It took a while to cut the actual hand though, as the rubber glove was quite tough. This delayed the smoothness of the sequence but other than that I think that it was very effective. The blood pouring out of the finger looked really gruesome and the use of dog chews in the fingers made the action look really sinister.

Nails

We've added some fake nails to the hand to add to the realism. It was quite hard to get the colour right, as we wanted them to look like they were real but also dirty and almost mouldy.

The arm wound

When we first made the structure for the arm, we used the plaster of paris to try and create the outline of a wound. We then decided that we would be paint this with a lot of layers of liquid latex, so that we could push and mold this to create a dip/lifted skin effect. We then drilled through a hole so as to allow a tube to go through the arm. This would then enable the blood and puss to be easily pumped through using a syringe. 

FAKE BLOOD

Making fake blood out of maple syrup, water and red food colouring

Jake & Dinos Chapman

fake hand

Today we started work on the fake hand that will appear in the kitchen scene. We filled a rubber glove with salt dough and molded it into a life-like shape. We then found an old shirt and cut the sleeve off, to cover the end of the mold, and to hide the end of the rubber glove.

Finding the right colour

Playing round with acrylic paint to find a good skin tone for the hand and arm...

Moodboard for uncanny proposal

This week we had a session on Photoshop. I have use photoshop a little bit but not for a while so it took a while to become familiar with the program again. I think the hardest thing I find about Photoshop, is that there are a lot of little things that you need to do to perform an effect. Often I forget one or two of these (such not pressing a certain setting being in the wrong layer) and so it takes me a really long time to do a small amount. 

This is the mood board I did for the original uncanny proposal. As said before, Francis Bacon was really influential so I included a couple of his paintings. The one in the bottom left corner is the picture I had in mind when writing the proposal. As the piece is set at night, I imagined the general colour scheme and palette to be dark, mood lighting with red undertones. 

fake arm

We started on making the fake arm this week. We cut a shaped a piece of foam into an arm like shape, which was quite difficult. The main problem we had was trying to saw the foam so that one end would be thinner than the other, like the human arm. It was tricky doing this without making one side of the foam more extreme than the other. We used sand paper the smooth and round the foam. We kept one side completely flat though so that the arm could easily be filmed and secured.