Props, Make-up & Costume

For our production we didn't use too many props, as it would take time to find and costs money!!! Instead we decided to use only what was necessary to save all the hassle, as there was no need for many props in our storyline. 


The main prop used for our production was fake blood. We took it upon ourselves to make it, instead of buying it as we wanted to get the right colour, thickness etc and to make it as real looking as possible, whereas fake blood which you can buy from shops tends to look unrealistic as we did go out to shops researching this. 


For the fake blood we googled many different recipes, but decided to go with this one, as it was the simplest and we were able to buy the ingredients required easily. 


http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/thingstodo/makeit/fakeblood 


To create the fake blood we needed:

• Red Food Colouring
• Blue Food Colouring
• Golden Syrup
• Water
• Flour

Here is a video of me and faye making some of the blood: 

Also here are some images we took on the day of making the blood. We were extremely happy with the end product as we believed it looked very realistic and wasn't hard to make at all. 

As an essential part to the storyline we needed to make guts which would be seen in the film when the zombie is eating the dead person. To do this all we did was get pieces of tissue and kitchen roll, roll them up into long, slender sizes and then place them in the fake blood and let the tissue get absolutely soaked in it. Here is the result of out guts on Jack who played the dead boy: 

Zombie Make-up:

When we did our first attempt at the zombie make up for our first time of shooting the film, we used tissue, glue and paint to create the 'zombie look'. However this make-up took a long time to do as it entitled individually sticking on tiny pieces of tissue to the face ... waiting for it to dry ... and painting each section ... before using black eye shadow to darken the mouth and eyes. Another problem that came from this make-up was that due to pva glue being used on the face with tissue on top, the actresses (me and hannah) were unable to hardly move our faces, meaning it was difficult for us to make facial expressions. Also, the colour of the make-up (green/grey-ish) was too dark and made us look too unrealistic as we always wanted the zombies to still have human factors about them. As a group once watching the footage back, we saw that the make-up made the zombies not show up on camera very well. Once we took into to consideration the problems we had faced using this make-up we decided it was best to use a different style of make-up when we re-shot it. Here are some images of the original make up: 

When we did the reshoot we decided to go for a much more realistic look. The zombie could now been seen to still have a human side to them as their facial colour had not changed to a whole new colour of greens etc but to just a much paler version. This make-up gave the much better feeling of them being 'dead'. Another advantage to this new make-up was that it too less time to do, as it only consisted off applying mineral powder to the face using a make brush and then one certain areas using a dark eye shadow colour to give a more deathly/bruised look. Also there was the use of fake blood on the face to show the zombie had been eating flesh etc. Using this make-up allowed me to make facial expressions with ease. 

For Jack the actor playing the dead person the makeup was lighter so that there was a link between the dead person and him becoming a zombie.

Costumes:

• For the character of Kate, was seen to have a simple look as after all in the storyline she is to be seen walking through the park with her boyfriend, just being out on a average day. She wore: a white shirt, red top to be worn over the white shirt, plain blue jeans and converse shoes. The choice of clothes do have meanings to them though. The white shirt symbolizes her purity, compared to the red shirt which symbolizes the danger she is about to walk into. 

• Leo's costume was used in the same way, he was also given a simple look. He wore a white shirt, black hoodie (which he puts on later in the film) and black jeans. Yet again the white shirt was used to show purity and goodness, however once he puts on the black hoodie it is shown to show danger as he puts it on just before he enters the dark forest bit where evil is happening (zombie eating dead person). 

• For the character of the zombie, we gave the zombie a teenage image (as she is a teenager). The costume consisted of: plain light blue shirt, black hoodie with the word: 'DEAD' written on it, plain blue jeans and grey pumps. The light blue shirt represents the innocence the girl had before she was turned into a zombie and then the hoodie can be seen as ironic as the character is dead and she was almost predicting her fatal end on that day.

• The dead person wore a: whit shirt which was torn. This represented that his purity had been ripped away from him as he had been turned into a zombie. The fake blood and guts on the shirt show the deathly goings on and the danger he faced and the danger he imposes on people now.