I have been looking all over the place but I cannot find anything...maybe I'm just not looking in the right places...I am new to the directing thing and am working on a piece where I need fake blood...any help would be greatly appreciated...

Hey Heather--welcome.
Try looking at a party/Halloween store (ala Party City or something like that)if you want to buy it. Otherwise you can make it using a few recipes that can be found at this site:
Fake Blood Recipes

Good Luck!

awesome thanx a bunch hawk...

alot of the party stuff is really really bright and looks kind of cheesy. depending on the way in which the injury occurs (falling, being knocked down outside, etc) adding some smears of dirt or mud can really help the cheesy blood.

well my scene is a falling scene and i want the blood to be able to pool but not too fast...

You don't have to buy fake blood. You can make it with household items for cheap. Here's a link.

i assume we're talking about the death jump you mentioned in another thread. so you want a pool of blood forming around the dead actors on the ground?

party blood is not going to do that - you need tons and it's like toothpaste, it won't pool. you'll need to spread it with a putty knife!

i'd def suggest a blood recipe from one of the sites people have linked to. maybe you can pump it out from under the actors with tubing of some sort. good luck!

Maple syrup and red food coloring...and boom there you go like the other dude said..ad a lil dirt to the subject material

The fake blood you buy is such a rip-off too. Its much less expensive to just make it yourself. Doing this also gives you the ability to make it however you want. Just mess around with the ingredients until you get the look you want.
(But make sure your actors are comfortable with whatever it is you're pouring all over them.)

I agree. Corn syrup and red food coloring works the best. Just make sure that you limit the amount of night shooting you do with it because it will harden in the cold and stick to the actor for several days.

anyone know how well fake blood stores? I was gonna shoot a couple weeks ago, but couldn't, but i had my blood all ready to go. but since I couldn't shoot its sitting in my fridge right now. Will it last forever? Get moldy? Thin? Anything at all?

I've had the same jar of blood for about 1 year now and its just starting to thin. (corn syrup and food coloring). I think you'll be fine, Kyle.

If you want realy nasty flack a little black bery jelly mixted in will do the trick. And a good cheep delivery system is a pump up bug sprayer,just remove the nozzle and replace it with clear tubing,and use a plumbing valve to regulate it so it dosent go every where when you pull the trigger.

*clears throat*
laundry based blood
for wool/sweaters/delicates
liquid woolite and red food coloring with a couple drops of blue to deepen the color... add cornstarch if you want it thicker

for cottons/synthetics/dyed fabrics:
ivory snow laundry detergent and water with red and blue food coloring

another detergent base:
2 parts corn syrup
1 part Chocolate syrup
1 part clear dish soap
red and blue food coloring

also
liquid glucose (syrup)
coffee
red food dye
(If you get eat it, you will be bouncing off the walls... honest)

another edible one:
light corn syrup
black-cherry kool-aid powder
smooth peanut butter
1 part water
red food coloring

mouth effects
gelatin capsules, jello pudding
red food coloring, little bit of green
mix ingredients together and put into the capsules with an eyedropper... put the capsules in your mouth, bite, and DROOL!

...I have more... contact me if you need something different.

For "movie" blood, corn syrup and red food coloring with a tiny amount of blue works OK. However, this is somewhat unrealistic looking because corn syrup is translucent. For extremely realistic blood, I imagine something using condensed milk or a flour/water mixture would be a better idea.

I have also used "professional" purchased blood with good results, although it's fairly thick. It's mainly good for close-up shots of cuts or scrapes - for splattering or dripping, homemade is superior since you can control the consistency.

I did a "KILL BILL" style blood squirting for a movie using corn syrup blood, at 1st I didn't think the blood would be thick enough to see on camera, I did a test run and the blood didn't spray well, so I added more water. This made it easier to spray out and looked really great.

I hope to finish this movie soon and put it on studentfilms.com

Spencers. We picked a a tube or two of great fake blood, looks awesome.