Practical: Masks:

Animal Masks:

Within out teaser trailer we decided that the use of animal masks will be effective. Such ideas came from films such as 'You're Next' where the killers use them in order to conceal their true identities. However in out trailer we have decided that instead the victims will wear animal masks, to in fact dehumanise them and create them in a more vulnerable, helpless light. Helping to play of the audiences further, acting as an emphasis of their mistreatment, almost as if animals in a slaughter house.

 

For this task I ordered a realistic, haunting looking pig masks off amazon in order to have a good, effective base for my task. I then used fake blood, liquid latex, scissors, and numerous other makeup products in order to alter it and make it look suitable for a horror film.

For inspiration not only did i look at 'You're Next' I looked at masks from films as saw, which included a rather scary looking pig mask.

Pig mask from Saw

Final product

Conclusion:

• To conclude i believe that the pig mask looks very effective, it gives an eerie animalistic feel to the killer.
• The liquid latex and fake blood, and other makeup made the mask look much more sinister and suitable for our genre.

Practical - Masks

Making Masks for our Trailer

Following the results of our survey, it seems that the idea of using masks in our trailer is particularly popular. However, as we have no yet decided what kind of masks we want to use or if we want to use them at all, I didn't want to spend a lot of money on something we hadn't agreed on yet. So, I decided to use plain surgical masks as I already had a lot of them at home, and just bought fake blood, as it's likely we'll end up using this at some point. 

I started with plain masks, like above. I bought two types of fake blood; a liquid one to create drips with and one in a spray bottle that would create a splattered effect. On top of a plastic bag, I sprayed the masks with the spray bottle to make them less pristine-looking. 

Just with this spray, the mask looked effective enough to be used in a horror film, however I wanted to experiment further. Using a cotton bud and the liquid fake blood, I drew mouth expressions onto the masks. 

However, this was not as effective as I hoped it would be. Despite this, I think the masks with the blood sprayed onto them could still be useful in our trailer as they are very cheap to buy and I already have a lot of them.