Practical- Testing blood in water

For this practical task I decided to use fake blood and put it in a sink full of water and then pull the plug to see how the blood colour/ texture would look. The water draining down the sink represents the stream water in Loose valley where we will be filming our opening.

I did two tests, fake blood and red food colouring. We can't use real animal blood for this as it may damage the wildlife and plants that live in the stream. I wanted to test the two different substances to see which would look more realistic flowing down a stream in one of our final shots.

In the fake blood test, the blood separated in the water so that it looked like it had bits in. I thought this didn't look effective and some of the blood was different colours to other parts and had different textures therefore wouldn't look good in water. The fake blood could also be potentially harmful to the wildlife and plants that live in the streams.

However the food colouring test looked really realistic and natural going down the plughole. This will be the substance that we will use for the blood running down the stream.