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Breakdown artists, sometimes called agers, dyers, or textile artists, work behind the scenes to fake all the damage on a character’s costume. Sarah Blostein has done breakdown work on “The Boys,” “The Strain,” “Ready or Not,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Station Eleven.” Because movie and TV show scenes are frequently shot out of order, sweat stains and rips have to be replicated. Sarah walked us through how to create convincing fresh and aged blood stains on a shirt, what materials look the most like dirt, and the very specific way to make a bullet hole look realistic.
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Editor’s Note: The fake sweat Sarah uses in the video is a mixture of water and paint. Baby oil or glycerine are commonly used to create fake sweat on set. Additionally, Sarah used dark brown paint, as opposed to black, for the dried blood in “Ready or Not.”
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@antowane 2 года назад

The movie industry has some of the most specific and outlandish jobs. I love how much effort and care goes into film and TV shows.

@I_WANT_MY_SLAW 2 года назад

I know right. But they are hard to come by.

@beardoswaggins739 2 года назад

Yep, on Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, there was one man tasked with making chain link everyday for like 7 years. He’s quoted as saying: “this was the most amazing experience of my life” 😅

@healinggrounds19 2 года назад

We do this for theatre shows too. It's incredible what we do for the quick change costumes needed in touring shows like "Wicked" or especially Elsa's "Let It Go" dress in "Frozen".

@rebellefleur435 2 года назад

Another movie/tv set job I learned of the other day is a 'Food Stylist'. Neato!

@nadiahapsari3359 2 года назад

@@beardoswaggins739 Can't blame him.Guy's probably living his life.

@antowane 2 года назад

Its funny how if she does her job well we wouldn't even notice it, but if she got it wrong it would end up in a Watch Mojo countdown video.

@I_WANT_MY_SLAW 2 года назад

Yes, the best jobs are supposed to go unnoticed. That's the highest compliment you can receive. They will specifically tell you that. No matter what field it is. Lighting, sound, carpentry, electrical, etc.

@MaisyahRaniahBratz 2 года назад

@dragonslayer9844 Год назад

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Assasin

@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Год назад

@@dragonslayer9844 why are you being racist?

@dragonslayer9844 Год назад

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Why are you being jobist

@MissMisnomer_ 2 года назад

This along with Foley artistry have got to be some of the coolest and underappreciated artforms in cinema

@batemon85 2 года назад

My husband's dream job would be doing Foley work. It's fascinating stuff!

@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow 2 года назад

Literally said no one ever

@BlazerT48 2 года назад

Foley artist is pretty known by now. The ones that are truly underappreciated is this and the niche props designer for edible/destructive/silent uses. Look it up

@amomentofzen9961 Год назад

Prop masters too!

@amandasnider2644 2 года назад

I was in a Fibre Arts certificate course in College and at the time I wanted to further my studies and go into Costume Design after I graduated my first college. For my final projects I decided to explore how realistic Costume destruction can be. I sewed a simplistic nightgown and a wrote a short scene describing a pioneer woman running from her drunk abusive husband in the woods. I wanted to see just how much damage could be done to the outfit. So, I put the nightgown over some ratty clothes, I put some protective goggles and a helmet on and I ran like my life depended on it through the forest around my apartment.... turns out practically no damage whatsoever other than some strains but it actually was difficult for the fabric to catch on stuff and it never ripped. Actually, there was so little damage that I was afraid my teacher would think I didn't do anything to test it so I very stupidly jumped into a bush...what I thought was a regular bush. Turns out there was a massive hole under the bush and I really fell and I gashed my leg badly. The ironic thing is that the broken branch cut me through the fabric... without ripping the fabric. All I had to show for evidence was a little bit of blood present on the fabric (which looked more like a little scab had been picked vs a wound) and the wound on my leg.

@sarahblostein4862 2 года назад

This story is amazing lol!

@randompotato7391 2 года назад

Omg, that's crazy 😂

@GrandHighGamer 2 года назад

As a kid I managed to get a piece of stone stuck in my leg (still have the scar) without ripping my pants. I don't know how it made it in.

@harveyspecter111 2 года назад

Things we do for those marks......

@frosty925 2 года назад

Wait so the gown you wore actually withstood much of the stray twigs, branches, rocks and etc.? Quite surprising to hear

@glorygloryholeallelujah 2 года назад

Dang. My school’s old career counselor really let me down… He never ONCE told me that there was a career path that would allow me to destroy rich people’s clothes for a living!!🤣❤️

@gothgreenrock 2 года назад

the ideal career path tbh

@glorygloryholeallelujah 2 года назад

@@gothgreenrock right?! Who do I talk to, to get this dream job?! 🤣

@talb.1805 2 года назад

It's not rich people's clothes lmao they're curated costumes, so sadly that career path doesn't quite exist yet 🙃

@astoroidea6502 2 года назад

@@talb.1805 I mean, some of those outfits gotta be expensive

@rafaelperalta1676 2 года назад

This job and the people who do it are amazing. It requires a lot of knowledge and effort that usually ends up unnoticed by most.

@cinnamoncigarettes 2 года назад

I think you mean unnoticed by most or not noticed by most

@rafaelperalta1676 2 года назад

@@cinnamoncigarettes thanks. I was gonna put not noticed. I didn't notice it was a double negative.

@toastthemost2473 2 года назад

I never knew how much I wanted to be a breakdown artist.

@sakuraesther6309 2 года назад

Go for ittttt🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

@shayne_has_landed2511 2 года назад

I remember destroying a thrifted jacket to turn into a zombie costume. I used files and razors to tear the jacket in specific spots, dyed it with watered down acrylic paint, and rolled around in the grass with it to deliberately deliver grass and mud stains. It turned out pretty nice; you can use whatever you have on hand to create something and turn it into your vision.

@loopilop100z8 Год назад

Stains are removed. Paint are washable.

@JessieorQuinn 4 месяца назад

@@loopilop100z8 and?

@yokelengleng 2 года назад

It's very complicated.... You have to imagine how clothes damage in scenarios that rarely happens in real life.... And you need to get the right colour and know the right chemicals to put on the clothes.... That's a lot of knowledge

@k.5425 Год назад

Yhhh...like you cover a variety of topics and knowledge in this job

@GrayRaceCat 2 месяца назад

And, doing it all without making the clothing TOXIC to the wearer!

@nofool9621 2 года назад

If realistic bullet holes aren't easily visble, then I suppose making it a bit bigger(visible) and more dramatic even though it's unrealistic, would make it more realistic to the untrained eye which is the majority of the audiences. I guess that would do it for many.

@sh_-nz7qd Год назад

Just shot with a real gun 🤔

@Mrstealth93 2 года назад

Smart idea making separate damaged parts for a special expensive costume.

@loopilop100z8 Год назад

Stains are washable.

@kirstenpaff8946 2 года назад

That lady must have a very shady looking search history.

@sarahblostein4862 2 года назад

Bahaha you have no idea

@beamanlangit6869 2 года назад

I'm amused by how great artists they are, they really made every film more lively and worth watching for.

@69cheesyfries 2 года назад

man so many details into movie making I'm honestly intrigued. i might wanna try this out someday

@Tigris178 Год назад

It’s super fun! Takes a lot of patience, but the results look awesome. One of the best places to try it is on Halloween costumes. A generic pre-fab costume from a big box store looks dorky until you hit it with sandpaper and files and grime, and then suddenly it looks brilliant. Try distressing the fabric, then drybrushing/dry sponging, and work back and forth in layers. It’s way fun :)

@loopilop100z8 Год назад

@@Tigris178Paint is washable with clothes.

@owlislike 2 года назад

Previous costumer here. I have: Set a dress on fire ( multiple times) Made fake dirt to slather onto props Distressed fabric with sand paper, needles, steel wool, rocks, old screw drivers, palm sanders, and cheese graters ...the list goes on 🤣🤣

@Musty_Moth 2 года назад

can confirm, bullet holes look like cigarette burns. However, having been shot in my leg at point blank , the entry looked like a bullet hole, and the exit looked like a blown open stovetop popcorn covered in blood. It honestly wasn't too far off from what I saw here This is beautiful work.

@neon9016 Год назад

Why were you shot at?

@theysay04 2 года назад

This is one of the reasons why i love watching behind the scenes/ making of videos more than the actual movie/drama

@g0d5m15t4k3 2 года назад

It's a delicate balance between looking real and looking "real" for the viewers. Just like how most cars wouldn't explode in real life like they do in action flicks. It's a fine art to research what real would really look like, and make the executive decision to pump it up a bit for the screen. Also, making the filth and grime from body safe materials is overlooked. An actor could be wearing a costume for hours or days or weeks. Literal actual dirt and oil would be pretty dangerous to coat someone in for extended periods of time. Makeup artists use things like "stage dirt". And when you don't use cinematic safe resources, you turn out like the 1979 Russian film "Stalker" that was filmed in a chemical dump that gives the actors and crew cancer but had really good rad and really real WASTE PARTICLES floating through the air.

@Pionike 2 года назад

I could never be able to do this job. Ruining clothes very much hurts my heart 😭

@healinggrounds19 2 года назад

I work costumes for theatre. We destroy costumes after profession runs, due to union rules. Most Broadway costumes are never seen again unless an actor is "gifted" it by the designer. The costumes are incarcerated. This hurts my soul so badly. After sewing hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours, on a piece, only to burn it.

@ara6692 2 года назад

@@healinggrounds19 what why?

@rezuanachowdhury6073 2 года назад

@@healinggrounds19 u people burn clothes? this woman in the video made the dead guy's tuxedo look bad in way so that it can be used again. so.... y don’t u people reuse clothes?

@healinggrounds19 2 года назад

@@ara6692 Because the costumes are designed by "professional designers " and they don't want their designs to be copied or sold and copied,copied, copied without recieving credit or money. So it's written into the contract that after a show or tour ends, the sets,props and costumes are destroyed unless other arrangements have been made. Sometimes actors buy their costumes and props or certain set pieces for their houses. This also applies for big ticket concerts too! The sets and backup dancer costumes are destroyed.

@healinggrounds19 2 года назад

@@rezuanachowdhury6073 because it would not look realistic if we didn't really put burn marks by bullet holes, etc.. Someday, CGI will replace all of us, actors, costumers, set builders...it will just be programmers.

@LadyJGeek 2 года назад

My first day in the costume lab while getting my theatre degree, the costume mistress hands me a stack of costumes and tells me to, "distress them." Not knowing what to do I yelled at them, "You're ugly! And no one will ever want to wear you!!!" Turning back to her I asked, "Are they distressed yet?" Yeah, I don't think they ever knew what to do with me. 🤣

@nana-ct4jv Год назад

wow sooOoOoo funnyy

@gingerdog8203 Год назад

And then everyone clapped.

@andrewgordon235 Год назад

It worked for the mood slime in Ghostbusters 2🤷

@lolrentz Год назад

How did you get into costume designing without knowing what distressed clothes are

@LadyJGeek Год назад

@@lolrentz I went to college not quite pre-internet, but close.

@sonikboom007 2 года назад

I have a couple pairs of breakdown boots and two breakdown philson jackets from man in the high castle. I wear em daily! They look rat bagged but are near new otherwise. The joys of set sales!

@kelsey2333 2 года назад

Wow I never knew they sold stuff like that from movie sets. Are they more expensive tho, because they were worn by famous actors and in famous movies

@sonikboom007 2 года назад

@@kelsey2333 no the jackets regaail for 350 or so and the bootsarelike 250...i paid 20 for the jacketand 15 bux for the boots

@Jdmenendez22 2 года назад

This woman should be hired for Springtrap's costume

@average-art3222 2 года назад

Yea, like, I would love to see how she would make a suit to have the intestines and guts inside, that are mush and gritted in the gears

@nav6969 2 года назад

agree

@Donteatacowman 2 года назад

"A lot of the [blood stains] didn't just happen naturally." What a relief!

@kphoria1009 Год назад

i think they said sweat

@Melissa0774 2 года назад

Such a cool video. I haven't seen anything like this since I visited the studio in Texas, where they shot Dallas and the Problem Child movies, on a Girl Scout field trip in the early 90's. I forget what it's called, but they used to have a big museum there with all kinds of exhibits about how movies are made. It since went out of business and Glen Beck took it over. That's where I first learned about how they use exploding blood packs to do gun shot scenes. I learned so much that day, that I still remember all these years later, but I'm surprised they never said anything about this clothing destroying thing that was talked about in this video.

@ScripturientMuse Год назад

I’m a breakdown artist for film in the Toronto area too and am very glad I now have an easy go-to video to explain my job when I tell people about it, because boy do they look confused sometimes lol

@catto4800 Год назад

I never knew how detailed and alot of hard work are needed to make damaged clothes

@aroojtahira7823 Год назад

I love how every artists take part to make it realistic

@justthatnoodle 2 года назад

can confirm the cheese grater technique works did it to my thumb by accident and it is indeed shredded

@sasisaipim 2 года назад

She did an amazing job with her talented heart. This is new to me as I have never thought of costume designers who creat ruined clothes in movies. Thank you for sharing 💝✨🙏

@IKEMENOsakaman 2 года назад

Wow, so much dedication in details. I love it! Shokunin!

@fynkozari9271 2 года назад

I would do anything for money too, the root of all evil.

@laurenbendik2006 6 месяцев назад

This is fascinating! The part about when they had to do two versions, one with dried blood and one with still wet, because the filming was out of order is so interesting.

@chocomelonsugarhigh Год назад

Ya know the job's well done when you don't even wanna see yourself in those clothes despite it being fake. That's skills right there

@playlistmusicchannel6731 2 года назад

i always imagine those wrecked costumes smells bad, like sweat and saliva 🤮🤣. but since it is created in the studio, just imagine how nice smelling it is🤣🤣🤣

@loopilop100z8 Год назад

Stains are washable with clothes.

@andrewgordon235 Год назад

I see her as a serious goth girl in highschool and all that artsy weirdness led her to this job right here much to her parents relief.

@sarahblostein4862 Год назад

Haha accurate!

@kokuhakuqiun4215 Год назад

2:35 The Strain from 2014 to 2017? Is that the one featuring an outbreak of an ancient strain of vampirism? If so that’s hype af.

@Robman92 2 года назад

I had no idea that this occupation existed but it seems so obvious now! Impressive 🙌

@andieallison6792 Год назад

This is a job I honestly didn't even consider would exist OMG

@giuliani3570 2 года назад

That was a great video. Never would have thought of most of those things.

@rileyjohnson9745 Год назад

I am obsessed with this movies insider series. So interesting.

@semoremo9548 2 года назад

5:24 omg all that work for a prop that's only going to be seen for a second and not even properly.... Whatever they paid her they should pay her more!

@mansvijajal4574 2 года назад

Great work!!!👏🏻

@johnsausage 2 года назад

That was a great insight! Thanks :)

@JusFnKevn 2 года назад

These people don't get enough credit for how a scene is portrayed by the human eye 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@shaloamstrooper5081 2 года назад

I would love this in ASMR, especially the scrapping ☺️☺️

@megatron8461 2 года назад

Now there’s a noble thought, making the clothes look distressed yet vintage.

@zaimaziz6412 2 года назад

Respect to those behind the scene never thought of them!!!!

@browngirl603 2 года назад

I always notice when the stains change, it’s so funny

@Boleniana 2 года назад

...Huh, I'd never even THOUGHT of this. Fascinating!

@ojasvigupta2321 2 года назад

"So there's a nice gross piece up there" LMAO😭

@laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953 2 года назад

John McClane's vest "the damage didn't just happen naturally" And all this time I've been thinking he actually got shot, climbed through vents and got cut to pieces with glass"

@kelsey2333 2 года назад

Homie I think they meant the clothes didnt get distressed naturally by the actors special effects makeup and the actors natural wear and tear on the garments

@laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953 2 года назад

@@kelsey2333 well obviously! Most of the time the actors are just standing around on set and almost all of the scenes where they're seen flying through the air or jumping off buildings it's a stunt double. I didn't think they bought his vest off some old tramp. What they do to make it look that way is really inventive tho. 👍

@johnathonjordon8148 2 года назад

These guys are up there on the most underrated jobs out there

@Tigris178 Год назад

IMO “Destroy” is a bit inaccurate- “distress” is more specific to these techniques. Destroying a costume makes it unusable; distressing makes the wardrobe pieces fit the environment and patterns of wear. Nitpicky I suppose, but when I read the title I thought the video going to be about film staff sabotaging costume departments 😂

@sarahblostein4862 Год назад

Haha. This is why I don't use fire to do burned looks on clothing, because the fabric becomes so brittle it disintigrates. I find it way more satisfying to create the look using paint and textured medium. That's where the "artist" part of Breakdow/Textile Artist comes in. We are illusionists ;)

@pr7ya350 Год назад

I really didn't realize how much effort was put into clothes in movies. Most of us (at least me), don't really pay attention to these stuff, so I think it's pretty cool!

@imcrazy534 2 года назад

Hey boss, I figured I’d spend my first day as an intern washing these tuxes I found in the back room. I have no idea how they got so dirty but why not get ahead of the curve right? I also threw out those dingy wifebeaters and ordered fresh ones with the expense account! Thanks again for hiring me boss! I can’t wait to get started on the stuff I saved for day 2!

@Abhiji91 2 года назад

Beyond Imagination, superB 👌

@ItzjustNy Год назад

She does her job so well❤❤❤❤

@jasonlee0290 2 года назад

Wow the whole time I thought it was real chest and armpit sweat stains

@DonVigaDeFierro 2 года назад

This is a job you never even consider, but in hindsight is just absolutely essential... I mean, it's obvious the clothes aren't going to get damaged by _actual_ gunshots or because they were in an _actual_ car accident...

@antararikshakumarsingh1960 2 года назад

My new found respect for these guys.

@filmbuster2619 2 года назад

Maybe it's just me, but does it really matter if a bullet hole is unrealistic as long as the majority of the audience perceives it as genuine?

@rodrigo9554 2 года назад

When something is realistic, you don't notice it, however if it's unrealistic it tends to break the inmersion

@bifurioussiren 2 года назад

That's why she says they don't make them realistic, they punch it up a bit so it will be easily understandable to the audience.

@filmbuster2619 2 года назад

@@bifurioussiren That's a good point

@eunicee999 2 года назад

Wow this is so specific!!! I had no idea so much work went into destroying clothing

@yairamzaleg739 Год назад

Please make a video about costumes and tactical equipment for movies and TV

@LambentOrt 2 года назад

Fascinating!

@michaelchallis4129 2 года назад

She must have loved doing The Boys. “What do you mean they crashed into a whale?”

@HistoryBoy 2 года назад

Honored to be one of the first viewers of yet another quality video.

@xandergross8474 2 года назад

Such a cooool job she has!

@sakuraesther6309 2 года назад

Love that for her .Goes to show that there is something for everyone

@moseptyagami606 Год назад

I’d adore this job. I love drawing damaged outfits, imagine being able to destroy actual ones?

@monkeyguy80 2 года назад

Nice vid 👍🏼

@sanchezs7614 2 года назад

This makes me appreciate movies more

@williamsmith4414 Год назад

I made my own fanfic design, mostly the shirt and pants, hoping to find a few more components, and of course, figure how they should be affected by these

@2degucitas 2 года назад

I like that one container of movie dirt is called "schmeer"

@tinyfishhobby3138 2 года назад

This sounds more like marketing for The Boys than anything else.

@fadhilpaten 2 года назад

How can someone end up having this kind of job? Definitely not common in my country

@kristypurr Год назад

this looks like such a fun job

@zurifashion3035 2 года назад

Wow amazing 😮

@miguelhorne9491 2 года назад

I've always wondered...

@alkasoli4002 2 года назад

In the end..what will they do with clothes?? Like after pack up?

@jeanguimaraes5527 2 года назад

Climatization, 1/6 action figures have a few, but the battle damage version have much more

@whyparkjiminnotridejimin 2 года назад

Such a cool job

@realnobeats4525 2 года назад

Thank you for video

@amberlawson7867 2 года назад

the fact the tank with the sweat stains made me go daryl dixon right away

@revandenburg Год назад

She would be a cool mom to have to help with your Halloween costumes!

@halfblackhalfamasian 2 года назад

How about cars? Always wondered how cars are destroyed to fit a scene

@TheMediterraneanStar Год назад

Amazing!

@cokeysnose375 2 года назад

Was the part about gunpowder a joke, whats on the screen and being said dont match LMAO

@rithikmadhava6005 2 года назад

No, it said on screen that she makes the black marks to indicate gunpowder. But she herself said this is not accurate and gunpowder only stick/burns if you're shot from very close range. Hope that made sense :)

@cokeysnose375 2 года назад

@@rithikmadhava6005 Thanks for the confirmation! :)

@vz_only 2 года назад

- What is your job ? - Ripping clothes. 😅

@wheresmyrooptoff4056 2 года назад

I need some of these tools for my clothes

@rmb206 2 года назад

0:47 my boy is cheesin'

@laughsingay 2 года назад

this seems like so much fun

@marnv2956 Год назад

Thank you and God bless

@RAMA-gu8cs 2 года назад

I really interested how like movies and tv show get like police car/ambulance/fire truck like do they rented it if yes from where

@lanadelreyish 2 года назад

“a lot of the damage you see didn’t happen naturally” well I hope not

@CarlosMartinez-zf7vs 2 года назад

Amazing!!!!!

@benjamin8399 Год назад

It's a shame that the result shown on screen doesn't reflect the amount of work put on it. Like in ready or not, we can barely see the costume in the end