Heart rip effect

On the 15th of May, I started filming the heart rip effect for my movie, To achieve this effect I needed:

• A pillow
• An old shirt to ruin
• An old container
• Tin foil
• Fake blood
• A Potato
• A balloon

The Heart 

For the heart, I took a potato and cut it into a heart shape and fit it into a balloon and glued it shut.

Building the Torso

First I took the container, traced it onto a pillow, then cut it open and removed unwanted stuffing, then filled the container with fake blood and the heart and then cover the top of the container with the foil, to film this effect, I hung the pillow up (while it was wearing the shirt) using a long piece of wire and held it in place.

To film this scene I set up the shot with my actor (Emma) wearing the old shirt and made it look like she was going to have her heart ripped out, then before we switch the actor with the pillow, I filmed a shot of sam about to reach in, then we switched to the pillow and I let Sam shove his hand in to find the heart and pull it out after blending in edit the effect was pretty effective (no pun intended).