Make up and mask designing

Make up 

For our film opening, we decided to firstly test the types of cuts and bruises that will be used in the killing scene. We brought and used the following products and researched on YouTube tutorials that would help us in this process:

• Liquid latex
• Fake blood
• Face paint
• Paint
• Foundation
• Eye shadow
• Bronzer
• Make up brushes
• Thread/string

The following videos were extremely helpful to us when we were trying out the types of wounds that would look good:

These were some of the few that were extremely helpful as they were easy to understand with the step by step guides. The video below is an example of what our experiments turned out like, there you can see some of the bruising make up and an open wound. The open wound was created by adding a mixture of liquid latex, foundation and tissue in order to create the 'scar' effect. 

Masks

We decided quite early on that we were going to have a masked killer, and for our initial inspiration, we looked at the typical masks that the successful slasher movies had. These included masks from Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, here are some of the masks that we took inspiration and ideas from: 

From research, we found that masks were typically white so we decided that our background colour of the mask would be painted in a thick layer of white acrylic paint. We purchased the base of our mask which was made from hard card and papier mache, this look extremely realistic. 

Our mask:

We did several trials on the masks, including a black version, however we decided that the mask looked extremely amateurish and was not completed to a high enough standard. Therefore we stuck to the white idea and added splashes of red and black. The eyes were covered with thread and painted red also. The colour red is extremely symbolic and is a colour that is always associated with horror movies.

The final product

 This is our final product, we decided to add a 'mouth' like feature which would grab the attention of the audience further. The white contrasts greatly with the dark and sinister red and black colour scheme.