After research on the Horror genre we realized that most characters, to create a scary atmosphere towards the audience, wear masks so in order to include this within our horror genre opening we needed to create a mask that our killer could wear.
Below is the process of making our murderers mask
We based our film upon a child scared by a pigs death so we tried to create a mask that has a pig like resemblance.
This would be the first step in making the mask to put the fast-setting plaster on the front of the face, during this step you have to get a straw and cut them into 2 small pieces and place inside the nose, this is so that the person you are using for this step will need to breath. You quickly mix the plaster with water and stir til a smooth consistency and place all over the face until completely covered. When the mixture has set this is what it would look like.
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To get the next step you'd have to put the same plaster on the mask (above) to get the overall finish of the person's face when the latex has dried. In this picture there is the latex, the pot to drain the access latex and the brush to make sure the latex is not uneven.
When the latex has been spread evenly on the mould then to dry the latex you would have to get a hairdryer (like the one in the picture above) and wait until you can see the latex has discoloured to a yellowish colour.
This is the type of colour it would turn when it was starting to dry, however the eye socket parts are still a bit wet, finish on drying and wait until they have discoloured more. You would have to repeat this step at least 10-12 times to get the desired thickness to the mask. (This took me about 3 hours)
Once finished these steps, you would have to peal back the mask from the mould. This was our latex mask finish. As you might be able to see around the sides of the mask they are a bit jagged, we didn't want to make it perfect as in our film the killer would have made his mask hand-made so it couldn't be really detailed.
Once the sides have been made a bit neater we would start on the bass colour of the face as it isn't the colour we would like it to be, it needs to be skin coloured. Any make-up being put on the mask has to be acrylic paint for it to not rub off.
After playing around with different acrylic paints and getting the colour we'd like, we got this colour that was the closest we could get to the required colour. We would have to wait until this has dried to put the next lot of colour on, as skin isn't just one colour we would have to put different types of oranges and yellows together to make it look more realistic.
After waiting for the pain to dry on the mask we decided to put the fake blood that we use on the girl in the bath on the mask in all the creases of the mask. This would make it look more creepy and would represent the events that happened to Bill Hasley as he had his accident.
After the paint and fake blood had dried we had to put different 'skin' colours to make the mask more realistic. This is a picture of what we were doing and trying to achieve.
This is what our final mask looked like once we had finished and what the one we would use in our film. We also put a brown substance on the eyebrows that is used in special effects.
We asked one of our members in our group to model the mask, just to get an idea of what it would look like on our actor considering our film as a whole and to see if it was good enough. Obviously, it looks a little big for our team member but the mould was for the actor casted as the role of Bill Hasley.
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