How to Make Movie Zombie Effects

Video Transcript

"I'm Shaun O'Rourke with Eleven Bravo Productions and we're here at EUE Screen Gems Studios. It's the largest studio complex on the East Coast in Wilmington, North Carolina. And I'm here with Molly Olesky ans we're going to talk to you about how to make s zombie effect. When you're first doing, when you first decide that you're going to do a zombie movie, you need to decide what type of zombie you're going to do. Are you going to do The Night of the Living Dead zombie, a Dawn of the Dead zombie, Twenty-Eight Days Later viral zombie or a decaying coming out of the ground dead zombie. Boy, I didn't know there were that many zombies, gad. Yeah, yeah, there's lots. So from there you can decide if he's decaying you know, you can use ripped let latex dry on an actor's face and then just literally rip it. And that is a nice decayed old zombie. Another way, if you want to go for more of a diseased just gross disgusting zombie, you can go with air bladders. Now this is a very simple process here. This is just a pattern to follow. What you're going to do is cover the latex over the entire thing, leaving this part open. This is where you'll stick the straw. What happens here is that you can blow in to this using a pump or someone's mouth, you know. And you can expand and give it a throbbing, throbbing decaying look. What you do is you do about eight layers of latex and after you do that you slightly powder the inside, just the very inside of the circle and you cut out a just a circle of saran wrap. and you carefully place it there and then on top of that you do more layers of latex and just another eight layers or so. After that you should have this area open. You can carefully remove the saran wrap and stick a straw straight in, and you can stick that anywhere on the body. On the side of the face you can make tiny ones, much like if you've ever seen Dark Man when his face bubbles up, that's air bladders. You can put them on the side of the body, on the heart, anywhere that you think it might be disgusting. Yeah, that sounds really really disgusting, air bladders, uhh. Well, that's fantastic. Well that's one way to make a zombie effect, using air bladders. Now, remember once again, safety's first. Whenever you're applying one of these type of latex products to an actor, make sure that you test it out on an area first in case there's an allergic reaction or something might burn the skin or the surface of the skin, But that's how you make an air bladder and we just showed you how to make a zombie effect."