Planning for production - Ideas I had on the use of makeup/ props

Red food coloring can be used
to create fake blood

Whilst trying to think up some items we could use for props that will help portray the themes and emotional hook of our movie whilst also showing conventions of horror, I had a epiphany about a drama workshop I once had and on how they showed us how to us how and what to use to help show physical injuries. For example they introduced us to a fake type of blood that can be applied to the fact to help show physical pain and suffering, this will be useful as physical pain and how it is portrayed is a big element into distinguishing the genre of a film.We were also shown a type of paint and makeup we could use that can be used to help show deformity or some sort of physical damage to the face. This could come in handy because as seen through my research on killers in horror movies, disguise through deformity is a convention often used by directors to portray killers in movie, playing on fears of the unknown. Knowing this gives me and my group the advantage of being able to play on these conventions through the appearance of our killer due to these resources at hand.