Knife Throw Effect

On the 26th of March, I started working on a knife being thrown into the head effect as part of my locus and movie project.

Shopping list:

• Two plastic knives
• Thin copper wire

With blood:

• Plastic syringe
• Tubing
• Fake blood

 

The Knife

First I started by cutting one of the plastic knives in half and drilled a small hole at the top end of the blade, next I took the copper wire and hot glued the end of the wire to the end of the hole, next I bent the wire around my head and held it in place (using paper clips and covering my hair with a beanie).

The Test Video

1. For the first shot, I had my friend Sam holding the knife without throwing it. So I had him look like he was about to throw it, then the camera quickly panned out to an empty space.

 

2. For the second shot, I had Sam make a similar move to the one from the previous shot, but without the knife, then he pretended to throw the knife and the camera panned to me wearing the wire knife, then I blended it all in editing.

The Blood Version 

For the blood version, I took a plastic syringe and tubing and hot glued the tubing to the wire and attached the syringe (filled with fake blood) to the tubing, the result was pretty decent.