Recently we had to create some edible fake vomit for a film called Safe. However, it wasn't just any old run of the mill vomit. Oh no, this one had to look like vomit of someone who had taken a lot of pills on an empty stomach! So more bile and less solid.
While there were hundreds of different internet spew recipes none of them came close to what was actually needed on set for this story. The spirit of invention is necessity when working on film, so here's what we came up with:
Ingredients
1 packet of Milk Bottles (for those of you in the US: soft white gelatin based candy)
2 litres of apple juice
1 packet of gelatin
1 box of rice flour
500ml Milk
1 litre of water
Disposable plastic cups
Not all of these ingredients were used up making this recipe. The big advantage of this recipe is that it looks great and tastes good with it being a bit like an oddly textured apple dessert in an actor's mouth. First I made up 500ml of a watered down 50:50 apple jelly using the gelatin. Zap the mixture in the microwave then put it in the fridge to set. While this is setting chop up the Milk Bottles (soft white candy) into small pill sized, pill shaped pieces. This does take some time. Then use 2 teaspoons of apple jelly per disposable cup, mash it a bit with a fork. Add a dash of apple juice into each cup. It is a good idea to production line a number of cups for multiple takes on set. Then add a dash of water. Then add some of the chopped up Milk Bottle candy pieces. Then 1 teaspoon of milk and 1 teaspoon of rice flour per cup. Stir well before giving to actor and voila! They are ready to look like they are hurling up pills and bile! One thing to keep in mind is how much a person can fit in their mouth so you'll only really need 3/4 of a cup of fake vomit. Enjoy!
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Fake Blood Recipe
As I have more time to blog than Alana at the moment I have decided to put up the recipe for fake blood that we used recently. It compared quite favorably to the bought fake blood but cost far less for the volume.
Ingredients
75ml Chocolate Sauce or topping (must be in a liquid form at room temperature)
75ml Red Cordial
3 table spoons of Red Food Dye
1 table spoon of Yellow Food Dye
2 drops of Blue Food Dye
1 drop of dish washing detergent (to prevent clotting!)
Mix chocolate sauce and red cordial, then add the food dye and 1 drop of detergent. This gave us a blood with a good consistency (not too runny, not too sticky) with the same coloration to real blood. Keeping the ratios the same a much larger volume could be made.
Thicker blood could be made by increasing the ratio of chocolate sauce to red cordial, but I suspect that the amount of red, yellow and blue food dye would have to be also altered.
We applied our blood externally using cotton buds dipped in the solution. A spray effect was achieved, but this was done in the driveway and flicking the blood. Obviously with chocolate sauce, red cordial and food dye this stuff will stain, so either wear black clothing while you make it or clothes you don't mind getting splattered. However, in terms of blood splattered effects it actually looks best on white cloth.
The advantage of this recipe is that it is effectively non-toxic and therefore edible! But because of the ingredients I would advise against consuming it in very large quantities.
Potentially it could be used to create an effect of someone coughing or vomiting blood out their mouth. In this case the fake blood should be made up in a bottle for ease of getting it into an actor's mouth.
Ingredients
75ml Chocolate Sauce or topping (must be in a liquid form at room temperature)
75ml Red Cordial
3 table spoons of Red Food Dye
1 table spoon of Yellow Food Dye
2 drops of Blue Food Dye
1 drop of dish washing detergent (to prevent clotting!)
Mix chocolate sauce and red cordial, then add the food dye and 1 drop of detergent. This gave us a blood with a good consistency (not too runny, not too sticky) with the same coloration to real blood. Keeping the ratios the same a much larger volume could be made.
Thicker blood could be made by increasing the ratio of chocolate sauce to red cordial, but I suspect that the amount of red, yellow and blue food dye would have to be also altered.
We applied our blood externally using cotton buds dipped in the solution. A spray effect was achieved, but this was done in the driveway and flicking the blood. Obviously with chocolate sauce, red cordial and food dye this stuff will stain, so either wear black clothing while you make it or clothes you don't mind getting splattered. However, in terms of blood splattered effects it actually looks best on white cloth.
The advantage of this recipe is that it is effectively non-toxic and therefore edible! But because of the ingredients I would advise against consuming it in very large quantities.
Potentially it could be used to create an effect of someone coughing or vomiting blood out their mouth. In this case the fake blood should be made up in a bottle for ease of getting it into an actor's mouth.
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