A Little Trip To The Hospital

Last week I was lucky enough to make a trip to Strathmartine Hospital with Khaled Hurby as part of his 3 man (well 2 men and a lady) crew to film his latest short horror entitled “LEAVE ME ALONE" for the Reed Film Competition 2012.

 

Strathmartine Hospital makes me both happy and sad and it’s so interesting that I snap up any chance I get to go there. The Hospital used to be called Baldovan Institution, then Baldovan Asylum until it was finally changed to Strathmartine Hospital. According to some sources on the internet the hospital started as an orphanage then changed to provide care and education to mentally handicapped children. I don’t know all of the in’s and out’s but eventually it closed down and has been falling apart ever since.

Anyway I’m running away from the point here. Before we went to the hospital Khaled and Matt Aubrey (the actor) came over to my house for make-up. Khaled told me that he wanted a dark character that looked super creepy and has his eyes covered. 

 

In order to achieve a covered eye effect that would still allow the actor to see I decided to use a thin black see through material. I cut out two circled and glued them around Matt’s eyes, then used some wax to blend the edges. Next I applied some gelatine to his skin to give it a textured effect and painted it black with stippled lighter colours. I also applied some paste and runny blood to create the effect that his eyes were bleeding.

 

Here are a few pictures of the finished look and a link to the short film on you tube. It is amazing and shows just how talented Khaled and his team are!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54rI5xHKlrQ&feature=youtu.be