Short presentation on prepping my main character's costume. (A2 Media Studies).

1. Costume Prep:
Anon’s Mask
Georgina Gilbey
A2 Media Studies

2. Designing
Before I painted the mask, I decided to design it, as
my group and I decided that one of the masks
should be painted to give the impression of blood
streaks to make it clear to the audience that Anon is
really a serial killer, using the Anonymous group as a
guise for his real aim.
In orange is where I planned the blood streaks to
be, with the marks on the right side of the mask
being half of a hand-print (to give the impression of
somebody trying to rip the mask off in their last
moments). We also wanted to add a drip of blood
on the brow of the mask, top left.

3. Equipment Used
I didn’t need much equipment for this
task, but I opted to use acrylic paints in
red and brown. The decision of what
paint to use was fairly important as if we
used a water-based paint, it would simply
smudge and stain the mask and look
unrealistic. Acrylic is thicker and doesn’t
take too long to dry, so I chose red and
brown paints and mixed them together to
get a dark crimson colour, for the
appearance of thick, slightly dried blood.
Before painting, I marked my own hand
with where I wanted the handprint to be
and where each finger mark should stop.

4. Painting – 1
On the right is what the mask
looked like with my first hand-
print. I simply mixed the brown
and red paints together and
dabbed each of my fingers into
it, then printed it onto the mask.
As you can see, it is fairly streaky
and has gaps, so I wanted to fix
this by using a rough brush to
lightly go over the prints, to
ensure they will be visible on
camera.

5. Painting – 2
Here, I used a small, thin brush to
go over the handprint, using a
darker pigment to make it stand out
as much as possible. I then
experimented with some flicks of
paint by adding a few drops of
water to the mix and letting it drip
down the brow of the mask. My
group and I agreed that this was an
effective design for the mask and
that we should use the blood
streaks sparingly to make them
more impressive. We allowed the
mask to dry overnight.