Squib

JackBauerII · Post by **JackBauerII** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:26 am

I'm in a rush and need a recipe for non-explosive squibs, preferably made from materials around the house. I've tried the fake-blood-in-egg method (didn't work) and don't want to go and buy a pesticide sprayer at the moment. Any easy methods you gys know of?

angusware · Post by **angusware** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:41 am

shoot the bastard.

youngfilmmaker · Post by **youngfilmmaker** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:02 am

Mhmm.. Heres a link....
http://exposure.co.uk/eejit/blood/index.html

Hope this helps =]

JackBauerII · Post by **JackBauerII** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:14 am

Thanks for your sarcasm. As for exposure.co.uk, of course I've seen that. As I said, I dont have time or money for the sprayer.

SE7 · Post by **SE7** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:19 am

Uhmm... try filling a condom (or small plastic bag, or finger of a latex glove) with fake blood, and have some way of popping it under the guy's shirt... lol... i dont really have any ideas.

Sorry,
SE7

angusware · Post by **angusware** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:31 am

well you've sort of avoided any way of anyone helping you, you wont use explosives and wont have something that uses air-pressure.
not really a great and effective solution unless you want the guy to use a syringe or something. Pesticide sprayers are only like $40 bucks anyway.

JackBauerII · Post by **JackBauerII** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:35 am

Well there you've given me a method. Thank you.

ProdigyFilmsinc. · Post by **ProdigyFilmsinc.** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:23 am

Fill a little baggie of some kind up and shoot it with an airsoft gun. Tada, now you even have the effect of impact, only drawback is the actor has to get shot.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:39 pm

If your guy is getting shot in front of a wall, get a sponge and soak up fake blood. Then tape it to his back (make sure he wears a dark shirt), when he gets shot have him fly backwards into the wall which will cause the blood to fly all over the wall for a nice exit wound effect. Plus since it's a dark shirt, no worries about seeing entrance wounds, etc. And if you want add some digi blood, or some smoke stock for a better a shot effect.

SammyJim · Post by **SammyJim** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:44 pm

Well, yeah, referring to prodigyfilms inc's idea, you don't necesarily have to shoot the actor. You could do a close up of the piece of body that you are shooting, but instead make a fake body part (arm, torso, which ever will be shot). Then, clothe it, put the blood pouch in, and shoot it. Then, you could switch back to a reaction shot of the victim. "ohh! I've been shot!"
That's my idea anyway, and as others have said, you haven't left us much choice with ideas!!

JP

Bodysnatcher · Post by **Bodysnatcher** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:21 pm

Well, yeah, referring to prodigyfilms inc's idea, you don't necesarily have to shoot the actor. You could do a close up of the piece of body that you are shooting, but instead make a fake body part (arm, torso, which ever will be shot). Then, clothe it, put the blood pouch in, and shoot it. Then, you could switch back to a reaction shot of the victim. "ohh! I've been shot!"

I like this idea! load sof other possibilities, vampire bites, dismemeberment, GSW's, Drunk injections, slashed wrists, surgical procedures the mind boggles, thanks!!!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:20 pm

The idea in principle is old and was used to great effect in early film making. At times they would shoot dummys and mocked up parts. In the good old days on some movies real bullets were used at times. James Cagney was nearly shot in the head one day by a police sharpshooter (can't remember the film name). The sharpshooter was meant to shoot a hole in the window Cagney was looking out of but hit a fire extinguisher near his head! Funnily enough in Peter Jackson's "Meet the Feebles" the hippo at the end is firing live M-60 rounds throughout the set because they could not get hold of blanks!

LizaTrainer · Post by **LizaTrainer** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:38 pm

Can you do something simple like use a large spoon and blackberry jelly, make the splat where ya need it.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:00 am

Exactly thanks Liza. People often over-complicate issues. Go straight to basics and see if they work for you.

challengerbravo525 · Post by **challengerbravo525** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:44 am

Ice bombs...incorporate it in with fake blood..........though..don't know HOW much iyt would hurt

smokeythebear · Post by **smokeythebear** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:50 pm

that would kill you bravo

challengerbravo525 · Post by **challengerbravo525** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:11 pm

nah...it would just be very messy...my friend viktor did a similar act..it did good for effects on a wall.....besdies...5 mins is up..he has probally found a way

smokeythebear · Post by **smokeythebear** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:30 am

keyword on a wall not flesh and bone

pdj · Post by **pdj** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:47 am

I find the egg filled with blood to be the best method. Don't launch it so hard and it might look better..It's a cheap method but like mentioned already, get the camera angles in order and it will look a million bucks

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:16 pm

What you can do is one of two simple things I have used. Have the person have a small bag under their shirt with some holes in it and when they get shot they cluch the wound and push your blood out, and you cover this with the way you shot it.
Or if you inside and this works really well, put them next to a wall then safty pin a spunge to their back and soke it in your blood and when they get shot have them smash into the wall and slide down it leaves a great trail.
In the end I am a fan of the compressed air blood cannon and not the squibs or sprayers. why have the blood come from the vic when it can be thrown at them?

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