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Topic: Blood
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Blood
Date Posted: 10/18/03 at 6:42pm
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We are doing reality skits where students get shot and need to show blood on selves. We are doing the skits about 2-3 times a night and we need to know how we can do the blood thing and be able to do the skit over again in about 30 mins after that.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10/18/03 at 11:19pm
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My suggestion would be to have several costumes for each actor. Wear dark clothing with your only light pieces being where the blood needs to be seen, then change those (light) shirts/pants/skirts etc between each show. It will make things slightly more manageable if you use or make fairly thick blood rather than anything really thin that spreads quickly.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10/28/03 at 4:54pm
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Looks like your best bet is to have multiple shirts for each person that needs to get bloody...you can have a set for each night, and re-use them, though anything that color is going to be difficult to wash out.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11/15/03 at 9:47am
Your show is probably over and done with, but I did have an idea.
I don't know how "real" you are going, but perhaps you could simply represent the blood symbolically.
A good example of this can be taken from the musical and movie, "Chicago" in which red silky fabric represents the blood during the “He Had It Coming” scene.
Not knowing anything about your show, perhaps the "victim," when they are shot, could pull a red scarf or cord from under their shirt and drape it across their shoulders.
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