Sunday, 27 September 2009

How to create prop medication

I found an interested website a few weeks ago which I'd completely forgotten about until I came to uploading my test video...

How To Fake Medication

It's basically a DIY Film making website with loads of very useful tricks and hints on how to create the illusion of the movies for as little as possible. It will definitely come in handy for the rest of the year and even University Productions.

I hadn't thought of using food dye for the colouring. seems fairly obvious I know. So after I found the website about 2 weeks back I went into BOOTS and bought myself 20 Perscription Medication Pill Bottles and a lot of Tic Tacs and tested out the Tic Tac trick in the test video below.

I didn;t fill the bottles for the test video because they're meant to be empty to represent the extent of the characters addiction. (It's also a poor use of perfectly good Tic Tacs!) There are no labels on the bottles either, but the webpage also provides a mock-up label which I'll have to edit at some point to replicate the real information for various brands.

Mock-up bottle label:

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