Practical- creating muddy bloody footprints

For this practical task I decided to try and create muddy bloody footprints. We need this for our film opening as we want to show a shot of the killer walking away from the camera at a low angle wearing walking boots. As the killer walks away they will have mud and blood on their boots to show that they are a killer. The picture above shows the boots that we might use for this.



In the two pictures above it shows the two boots that I covered in mud and blood. I got the two boots and rubbed them in the wet thick mud so that it would be able to imprint on the paper. I also used a paintbrush to paint blood in some areas and in other areas I just sprayed on a thick layer of fake blood. I did this to create a range of thickness in layers as the boot creates an imprint to make it look more realistic. When we film the opening we will most likely use animal blood that we will get from a butcher to fake the blood look realistic and it will also have the right consistency.




This is the imprint from the shoes. I decided to imprint on paper rather than a pavement to see how much mud and blood I would need to use. Overall I was happy with imprint however the print on the left is not as predominant as it was the boot that I put mud and blood on first so that it dried on the boot slightly making the imprint not as good. When creating the footprints I would need to add more mud and blood to make it stand out more on the pavement.