We had to work on the hand in three stages, first stage making the fake blood, second step making the hand itself and third step making the blood squirt out of the hand when cut off.
The most difficult parts of these stages was making them all look real to the eye. The blood had to be the right consistency with we were able to do by mixing strawberry sauce with red food colouring. It gave off a dark red colour that could easily be mistaken for blood and was thick but not to thick so it stuck to the mixing stick. We tested it by seeing how long it took for the gue to drip off the mixing stick, it had to run off fairly quickly but not too quickly. This is the look of the blood that came from the two simple ingredients.
Second step, the hand itself was explained to us by Martin. He showed us an example of a previous attempt of making a prothetic hand, he used bread dough, a thin dog chew stick and a latex glove. The feel of the hand was really genuine the only problem was the look, it needed paint that was skin coloured, which convenietly was located in the store of paints and worked extremely well after Fiona and Ruby added a layer of paint to it. The third step, making the blood squirt was easy to do. We got a syringe from the cupbourd and a small rubber pipe that we connected together then put it in the glove. The only thing we could do now was give it a final test. The test physically made me feel weak as it looked so real. It looked mangled and the blood was everywhere. A brilliant first attempt from the group:
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