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Originally posted by rjschwarz

It helped revive the genre and for that I love it evne if it is full of faults.

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Then you're a better person they I will ever be. Cheers mate.

You people have held me back long enough, I'm going to clown college!

Meant both, but probably should have specified, i was a wee bit out of sorts yesterday and I'm not so hip on acronyms anyway please forgive me.

I still think it was crappy though.

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I use SFX for special effects, I hope I'm not misusing it. Guess I better spell it out from this point on just to be clear.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

Yeah really, jeez Rj. Thats always what I thought it was too. Ahh...well.

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I'm just thinking about a crack I made yesterday about George Lucas not taking a dump without SFX. Actually works both ways but might be a big funnier if you read it Sound FX.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

HA
Very witty mate. Very, very witty.
Probably true as well. I'm suprized he has asphyxiated on it yet. Holy smokes.
Just picture that though, Lucas dropping a log. I cringe.

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haha this is so random because just today me and my friends fillmed a zombie/cowboy movie (extra cheese of course) and we used chocolate syrup as blood (filmed in black and white). Its looks so good, yet the zombies wouldn't stop compaining about how sticky they were. I do have a question tho, when one of the zombies gets hit with the but of a shotgun i wanted him to spit blood everywhere... anyone have an idea of what would look like more liquidy blood than chocolate syrup without looking too transparent?

make your own blood. Super concentrated Kool-Aid works decent enough, but getting the color right can be a pain, as well as the super-concentrated Kool-Aid taste.
Or if you have enough money and want to take what many would deem the easy route you can just buy fake blood capsules. I feel its kind of a cop out though. Its quite entertaining to mix up fake blood in the house with the parents around, espcially if you leave the mess. Give it a go, try a whole bunch of diffrent recipies. Fake blood can be made out of just about anything to tell you the truth. For chunkier blood you can use dyed ricotta cheese or super small curd cottage cheese. Or for a less cheesy alternative, very dark watered down spaghetti sauce works in a pinch. Be creative.

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Originally posted by Sneakas
when one of the zombies gets hit with the but of a shotgun i wanted him to spit blood everywhere... anyone have an idea of what would look like more liquidy blood than chocolate syrup without looking too transparent?

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Did you try diluting the syrup with water? I use black coffee to dilute my standard blood mixture but I've never tried that with chocolate syrup. Give that a try, too.

I COULDN'T RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO REVIVE!!!
Ok, so maybe I didn't try to hard....

So, we have covered blood, we have covered cheese, but we have not as of yet, covered make-up and prosthetics.
What is too much?
What is too little?
How do you all properly hack off limbs?

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The standard way to hack off a limb is to hide the limb behind the back, and put a fake limb in the sleave, then hack that. On screen it generally looks like you hacked a fake limb.

I actually had a limb hacking scene in my movie and rather than actually show, which would have looked fake and distracted from the joke) I had the hacker's body block the cut, then the victim drops down to his knees in pain, smearing blood along a wall. It's clear what happened without being overly gross or looking fake. I think the scene works well.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

Really???
I usually tend to just shoot it so the limb is on the side away from the camera. I suppose tucking would work too, but then you have to worry about some flappage if the talent gets a little bit too motivated. But I suppose thats where duct tape comes in handy....

Ha blood smears! I love those so much. The only issue is some types of fake blood can get a wee bit streched out on the wall and lose its color. Nothing looks more retarded then blood that is obviously not blood.

I wanna see that scene. Sounds awesome.

I have some comments on zombie indescrepancies as well, but first may I ask...
WHAT IS A ZOMBIE?

it will be interesting to see everyones interpretation on the topic. And how many have acting experience as zombies?

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Zombie (1) A voodoo belief in which the dead are brought back to life through supernatural means (2) A reanimated corpse that hungers for the living. Usually barely intelligent, motivated by hunger, and slow moving, and killed only through dismemberment or destruction of the brain (see Romero, George). Examples of talking zombies, zombies hungering specifically for brains and zombies running are not unknown they tend to be less common (see Return of the Living Dead for examples of all three). These zombies may be formed by voodoo, a virus, toxic or nuclear waste, or radiation from a venusian sattelite returning to Earth (3) A cocktail composed of various rums and grenidine.

That's off of the top of my head. I'm flexible on the definition. Zombies, when used correctly are a metaphor for something else as well as a creapy "what would I do" type monster. Along those lines I prefer the Romero style shamblers.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA