Mask Production

Due to the faceless nature of our DJ's we needed to produce masks for our DJ's which would give the DJ's an individual identity and style. This involved Michael and myself spending a day buying the equipment in order to produce the masks as well as other equipment and props we would need for our shoot such as a black tie for Daniel. Meanwhile Daniel produced a performance shot list.

The first stage was to buy the equipment to make the masks. This involved journeying to a variety of different stored including a stationary store, a fancy dress store and a DIY store. To make the masks we used hockey mask from the fancy dress shop as a template, covered the entire mask in masking tape to allow them to have a matt paint look and so the paint would work on the masks. Also a see through black material was stuck to the inside of the eyes to prevent eyes being seen. However one eye of the red mask was to be left so the eye could be scene for a weird look.

The production of my mask involved using a sponge to paint the bottom of the mask blue to give a rippley look. Then I sprayed a black matt spray paint heavily onto the top of the mask so that it would drip onto the blue acrylic paint area. I then added some faint silver lines over the eyes. 

The mask that Michael produced was created in a similar way to begin with using the masking tape. He then sprayed the entire mask black and allowed it to dry. He then used masking tape cut in styled shaped to cover areas of the mask and painted the entire mask red. After the paint dried he then removed the tape which gave an interesting effect.

This is the result of that hard work. Many people commented on which mask they preferred down to personal preference and there was a 50/ 50 split which was great for us. The fact that the masks created debate meant that this would probably happen for our artists in the real world.