Where's the time go?

Well, things keep on moving along.

As promised on myspace... some test footage of an arm gag for Jean Claude.




This past weekend was a big shoot with all kinds of zombies and a few gags, including the above if I could have got it working right again. The thing worked, but I had to change a couple things to make it work for the shot, at which point it ceased working correctly. It's OK, the way we did it looks just fine and actually worked out better anyway, so I'm not too disappointed by it.

Another one of the gags involved a woman being drug off and her fingers bleeding as she scratches at the pavement. Here's the rig I whipped up for that from things on hand.



The thin, 1/16" ID, tubes run down the bottom of the fingers. An air can filled with blood was pressurized and hitting the gray button while holding it upside down would send blood shooting out onto the pavement. There was also chalk glued to the actresses' fingertips under fake nails that was supposed to look like her nails grinding away, when it ran out the blood was to flow. Well, priming the tubes blood got on the chalk and ruined that effect. Oh well, at least the blood worked.

Besides that there were bloody bod parts and lizards and zombies running all over the place. Beautiful day with sun and no rain, unlike the day I shot the arm tests where it was in the mid low high 40s. Got a few great shots, and I'm happy if the director and the rest of the crew is happy.


In other news, working on a bunch of self adhesive wounds and may have a lifecasting marathon this weekend for another project. I'll sneak a shot or two of the wound test applications for ya.