Filming Blog: Makeup, Props, and The First Scene

On Saturday my group and I met together around 4 o’clock in the afternoon to film the first scene. As soon as we met up, we started heading to Party City. It is a store that sells party supplies, balloons, decorations and more. Props were needed for the ghost as well as to decorate the abandoned house for a creepier feeling of the haunted house. I searched Party City to try and find fake blood, wax, and creepy items but there was none. Since Halloween already passed they were not selling those types of products. So, we decided to go to Walmart. Unfortunately, Walmart also did not have any fake blood, wax, or creepy items. We did buy a frisbee that we would be using in the film, instead of a ball. Since we could not find fake blood or any wax, Jazmin and I went to the grocery store to buy items to make it ourselves. The wax was made out of flour and Vaseline. The fake blood was made out of corn syrup, red food dye, and cornstarch. Lesly is playing the ghost, so we made fake cuts and a bullet wound with the homemade wax. Thus, I put fake blood in the wounds to make it look realistic. Jazmin brought her makeup and made it look even more real by blended blue, red, and black to make his skin look as if it was bruising on the outside. Later, I practiced the makeup for the dark circles and mouth area on the entity's face. This is because I came up with the idea of the black circles under his eyes and his mouth, for a scarier look. It was already dark outside because we went to two different stores and putting the makeup on Lesly took a while, so filmed all of the inside scenes. This is one of the shortest scenes because we are only eating and then Britannia’s character (Claire) realizes she left her phone in the abandoned house. This scene took about fifty shots because I would keep messing up or laugh, but we got it done. Below is a picture of Lesly’s makeup!