Resit Special Effects

In order to add an element of action and threat which wasn’t really present in our original production, we decided to add a car chase scene. Whilst obviously not to the scale of Hollywood blockbusters, there were still issues of safety and realism, as we obviously couldn’t run anyone over. To solve this problem, I led on the bonnet with my feet on the floor, and Max’s dad then reversed his car. During editing this will be reversed and the shot will be sped up, in order for it to appear as though I have actually been run over. We filmed this same shot from both the car dashboard and the pavement.

One of our first ideas for implementing special effects was during the fight scene between myself and Kieran, in which he'll get one of his wrist slashed. For this, we needed to formulate a way of delivering a fake arterial spurt of blood. By planned to do this with the use of a short length of tubing and a syringe underneath his shirt.

Fake Blood

We needed the fake blood to be of a runny consistency, in order for it to flow easily through the tubing.

For this we used blackcurrant cordial.

 






Delivery Device

We inserted a length a length of tubing into the end of the syringe.

We then made it airtight with a piece of masking tape.

Finally, a pin was used to block the end of the tubing.

Once finished, it was filled with fake blood and taped to Kieran's arm underneath his shirt.

Despite our best attempts, it didn’t really work, as the camera didn’t pick it up in the low light of Max’s garage. We decided that we’d much rather have chiaroscuro lighting than this particular special effect.