SPLATTERPUS

Gender Benin' and Killing babies

Zombie and baby

Day one of filming! Finally it arrived. I have been waiting for this for quite some time now. Over the past couple of weeks i have been developing a basic script for this horror movie "Splatterpus" Granted, its not the most complicated script but then again none of the best horror movies are. Im not a huge fan of modern horror so for this movie i have tried to keep effects as classic as i can. That means were talking about loads of fake blood and guts. Even today for our first scenes we filled 2 balloons with home made blood, a cola bottle filled up, some food colouring and 2 bottles of ketchup. We dont actually have one particular method for the fake blood. We attempted (and failed miserably) at the 3 parts water, 1 part maple syrup with red foodcolouring trick. In the end we just decided to improvise.

Callum and baby

The first scene i shot today is one about a quater of the way through the script. Its one of a few side stories involved in the movie. Basically our "hero" Brad is being asked by his wife to take their young baby to the park while she goes out with her friends. Seems like a simple enough shot right? Well not when you have no female cast. So again improvisation was needed and a quick trip to the local charity shop was arranged. When we got there we found a great prop baby to mutilate that was much better than the previous one we had. My initial idea for the way to shoot the wife was to just buy a large sunhat and film the wife character from behind. Have the male actor (Dave Cowell) say the lines in his voice and then get my sister to dub over the lines. We still did this but Dave also had the urge to buy a pretty little dress he found for £2.50. Im glad he was comfortable enough to do that because it really made the shot look better. Its still a very broad shouldered wife...but its better than no wife at all.

Gender bending

After these shots were done we turned the kitchen red with our pathetic attempts at making fake blood. The real disaster happened when i started tring to fill up a balloon with red water. They turned out to be very useful in the end but at the time it fell out of my hands and drenched me in fake blood. Im the director! Im not supposed to get bloody. its my right as the director to take advantage of the actors and cover them in blood. Anyway it was pretty fun. We then lugged our bags of props to the local park where theres a lot of forest area. There were 3 scenes in total i wanted to film today. I wanted to film the wife and brad shot...got that done. I also wanted to film the shots of Brad getting attacked by a zombie and having to kill his own zombified baby...got those done. The only shots i didnt manage to get time to do was the montage of Brad playing with his child on the swings and slide leading the audience to think perhaps Brad is finally starting to bond with the foetus. Its not a big deal, i can get them done another day. Im really happy with most of the footage i got today and am really glad Dave and Callum didnt mind getting bloody and muddy

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