Hollywood Gunshot Blood Effect!

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Here's how to create a home-made hollywood style gunshot effect! Great for amateur filmmakers or for Halloween! Alicia helps me, Kipkay, demonstrate it along with a full video instructable...

Step 1: What you will need for this effect...

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Pick up a small garden sprayer at your local home improvement store. You will also need about a 3-5 foot length of clear tubing, a small clamp, a cork that will fit in the end of the tubing and a small piece of sponge.

Step 2: Fake blood for the effect.

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Take a teaspoon or two of Arrowroot which you can find in health food stores. Heat a small pot of water and add the Arrowroot. Stir continuously until the mixture becomes thicker. Add a small amount of red children's non-toxic paint and stir in. The mixture should now be bright red. Add a tiny amount of red food coloring until you get the color right. Store in a bottle and thin it out by adding water to make the blood the required consistency for when you need it. For bullet hits you need to thin the blood quite a bit to allow it to spray out.

Step 3: Attach the tubing...

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Attach the tubing to the garden sprayer using the hose clamp.

Step 4: Create the blood hole...

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Using a razor knife or razor blade, cut a mangled hole in the tubing, about an inch from the other end of tubing.

Step 5: Finish off the end...

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Tear up some small pieces of sponge and insert them into the mangled hole you just cut. Then pour in about 2 ounces of fake blood and seal the end with the cork.

Step 6: Attach the rig to the shirt...

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You want to find a cheap used shirt to cut a hole in. I found two at a local Salvation Army store. Then using gaffers tape (you could use duct tape but it will leave sticky residue on the tubing) attach the tubing to the shirt with the mangle hole faced through the small hole you cut in the shirt.

Step 7: Pump it up and get ready!

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Now pump up the garden sprayer a good 150-200 times...

Step 8: Pull the trigger!

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Pull the trigger on the pump and stand back...blood will explode through the tubing and out of the shirt, blasting the 'sponge guts' out all over...Have Fun!!!

jumpup_dnb_dj says: Sep 25, 2010. 7:48 AM

Great video, but to make it look more realistic, the actress needs to react the proper way to where the bullet is entering.

We do this in stunt training. ;)

still, a great little tutorial.

vanderlof says: Aug 8, 2010. 11:49 AM

It`s cool, great video.

fe1od1or says: Feb 24, 2010. 4:50 PM

you should make one that looks like you are vomiting!

poppa_bear42330 says: May 11, 2007. 9:59 AM

Yeah I have seen this before and for single gun shots it is great. Has anyone seen a design for multiple gun shots that used compressed air?

Prof. Yummy says: Feb 3, 2010. 2:57 PM

Just got back from an air component specialty shop. Bought an 8-way manifold with 2 inputs, not sure who makes it. Then got four MJV-3s (3way poppet valve), and four pc-2s (buttons) made by Clippard. Then just sealed the rest of the outputs and the input with butts(?), hooked up my 300PSI (max PSI for the valves) air cannister to the input, hooked hoses up to the MJV-3s and pop, pop, pop, pop. Bloody beautiful.

Prof. Yummy says: Feb 3, 2010. 2:58 PM

I will try and post more detailed instructions soon.

rymagiccraft123 says: Nov 24, 2009. 8:26 PM

XDXDXDXDXDthat awsome effects!!!

Johnsons on fire says: Mar 25, 2008. 2:42 PM

dude... your awesome.

bad ass pope says: Nov 10, 2009. 3:57 PM

... I think you meant "you're".

I'm a little bit ashamed of myself now, sorry.

~Aeronous~ says: Nov 5, 2009. 5:26 PM

is it possible to use spraypaint with a modded spraying tip?

themasterpyro says: Oct 24, 2007. 9:31 AM

im planning on scaring the holy crap out of ppl on haloween. how can i make this in a small enough package to be concealed while still having the same effect here?

corn fluffleberry says: Oct 17, 2009. 7:49 PM

put it in a trick or treat basket!

Esmagamus says: Aug 31, 2008. 9:01 AM

Take it in a backpack. Pose as a innocent that gets shot in the street.

Migacz says: Dec 19, 2008. 7:27 PM

It would be nice if we could see step one and two.

Plaid Demon says: Dec 16, 2008. 3:25 PM

haha you can see the tube on her right leg

Tombini says: Sep 3, 2008. 4:39 PM

Great ible! 4/5

david2222121 says: Mar 13, 2008. 2:14 PM

i really need to try this sometime. +1!

Chris Bilton says: Nov 23, 2007. 7:59 AM

I think it's fab but freaky.

penfacerat says: Jul 31, 2007. 3:12 PM

you pump it 200 times and get "shot" how dose the blood come out?

James (pseudo-geek) says: Nov 11, 2007. 3:24 PM

press the spray button on the canister.

DetonatorMan says: Sep 29, 2007. 10:35 AM

I have a cheap garden sprayer that cost $2 and only needs 50 pumps, 150 pumps would blow the sprayer apart. BTW,I love the voiceover (very professional).

nerfster says: Apr 10, 2007. 10:32 PM

raspbery drink mix powder and a little bit of water makes for a good blood effect and it tastes good too. But watch out because it stains your skin badly.

T3h_Muffinator says: Apr 10, 2007. 3:26 PM

Dude, I love your vids! They're so professionally done it's ridiculous! Awesome job!

Jezza Bear says: Apr 9, 2007. 1:43 PM

This is doing the rounds on the internet and is on loads and loads of websites. Is this really your original work? If not, a reference would be nice to where you got the original

Kipkay (author) says: Apr 9, 2007. 2:05 PM

I am Kipkay the original creator of the video. I already had a user account under this other name and did not even think about signing up with a different username. I'm going to see about having my username changed if it can be done.

Jezza Bear says: Apr 9, 2007. 5:07 PM

No probs, sorry, I have seen people plagiarise before on other sites. I am glad you are the originator:-)