How To Make The Burnt Character Look

To create the burnt witch look for our horror teaser trailer, we researched ways of doing this on Youtube where we found an American girl teaching viewers how to look like a zombie. Similarly, this fitted in with how we wanted our character to look. Below are the two video's we followed:

We bought the equipment needed for this procedure for it to follow through smoothly.
Below is an image of what we used: paints, eyeshadows, tissues, glue, vaseline, paintbrushes, paper plates, laptop to view the tutorial on.






Firstly, we needed to have brown and burgundy paint at the ready for the later stages of applying it and we already had brown so we mixed yellow, green, red and then a little bit of black later to make the burgundy mixture for the scabbed parts of her face.






Then we started ripping the toilet tissue into pieces to put on her face.
I then applied PVA glue to the area I was applying tissue to (cheeks) and then moved on to her chin and nose. I left it to dry for 30minutes. I also made sure the layers of tissue were wrinkled together to give a realistic burnt, scary look.




I then dabbed brown paint on her face, and then a layer of dark, mucky green paint was applied. Using a toothpick, i broke part of the tissue/glue mould to create a fake wound and put the burgundy red on it. Then i applied black eyeshadow on her lids to make a dramatic look.


Finally, she safely removed the mould and her skin wasn't affected either thankfully.

Below is also a picture of 'before' she experienced the 'burnt character' look.

How To Make Fake Blood

We searched youtube for videos to find out what ingredients people use and the cheapest, most practical and easy way to make fake blood. After researching thoroughly, the most common ingredient in nearly every video we viewed was corn syrup however, as the videos were recorded in America, we had to search the equivalent to corn syrup which is sold in England. We found that this was Golden Syrup so we bought this from our local supermarket. Similar, we substituted the corn starch with flour.

The following shows our steps of making fake blood:

Step 1: We poured Golden Syrup into a jug.

Step 2: We then measured out the correct amount of flour to add to the jug of golden syrup.

Step 3: We then added water to the mixture.
Step 4: Once we mixed the ingredients together, we added a few drops of Red food colouring.
Step 5: Once we mixed the red food colouring into the mixture, we added Green food colouring as directed by the video to darken the mixture.

This created a more realistic looking colour blood.