Practical- Decorating Knife

I decided to do a practical task of covering a knife in red food colouring to see how effective it will look when we come to do our filming.

I used a classic kitchen style knife to cover in blood to conform to common conventions of a slasher film.

 

I used food colouring gel to put onto the knife as it is a thicker consistency than food colouring and has the same consistency as blood. When 'decorating' the knife with blood, I added more onto the tip of the knife as that is where there would be more blood from the stab. I also added fingerprints onto the handle to show the killers identity and to make it look more gorey.





Overall, I think this looked really effective. However, when we film the real thing I would want to use some of the liquid food colouring along the top of the knife to show splashes and spots of blood as its was really difficult to do with the gel food colouring.