Welcome to a special and new type of BFX episode. This week we are not making an effect for our selves but for a real production. Welcome to BFX on location.
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I am here with Giancarlo and Jonathan, directors of The Old Man and the Seymour and they asked me to do an effect. You guys want to talk about the movie a little bit on what you guys asked me to do.
Well, The Old Man and the Seymour is a 30-minute film that we are shooting for the NYU. It is our senior project that we have, Amir Blumenfeld and Streeter Seidell of College Humor, starting in and the scene that we are about to do stars Streeter. The effect involves that kid being beamed in the face of the dodge ball and when you serve singly, a body nose it reaches out like faucet-like proportions.
So, normally, we spin the wheel prosperity to determine our effects budget by I figure since this is just like a real movie, we are on location, you could present me with a giant novelty check for thousands of dollars.
We can give you, like sixty bucks. Can that be on that giant novelty check?
Giancarlo and Jonathan have asked me to recreate two stages of a nose bleed. Stage 1 is a slow realistic trickle. Stage 2 is an obscene fountain of crimson nose blood. So when the director said I had sixty bucks, that is no problem. Really this rig or when you include all things you only had, just pretty chip. It is like $30 of red food coloring, a couple of this syringes, they are a couple of dollars each, $8 corn syrup. We already have a rubber hose, we already have the latex, we have the make up, we already have the blood pump and the capitation. It is easily under $60 so the beer is on me, just kidding, do not drink. So I brought two different types of blood here for the effects. We have got a really good high quality super thick dark blood which I will inject into Streeter’s nose with this syringe, modified syringe, and we have got our discount volume blood which is mostly water red form coloring. And, just a little bit of corn syrup is just going to make it slightly thicker but we do not want to stick in this otherwise it will not go through the pump.
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Okay, here is I am going to pull this off. For the trickling stage, I will be carefully and slowly injecting the thick blood mixture into Streeter’s nose using a plastic syringe with the rubber hose at the end. For the gusher effect, I will be attaching a rubber tube using spirit gum to the side of Streeter’s face. This will run behind his ear down to his shirt then attached to our blood sugar pump. The best part of this rig is the blood flows totally variable by adjusting the valve but the downside is you can only film your actor in profile.
For the test film, we are going to show you actual behind the scenes footage from the nose bleed scene.
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It is good. It is fun. It is something—you steal I do. You know I do this quite a bit so look at the time. We just finish the effect, what do you guys think? Be honest. I mean it is in the test of it and it definitely exceeded my expectations. It is more than really good. It was perfect. I agree. Look at the pool of blood as evidence. See you next week.
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