Evaluation of masks

Today we finished our masks we have been making. Here is my evaluation of it. 




I chose my design because the design really interests me. The picture I based my design on was how I imagined a mask from a theatre production of Beauty and the Beast would be. 


The process of making the mask was pretty easy. The bits that I found difficult was taking the paper mache mask off the template mask without ripping either mask. I also found it difficult to make the teeth and the horns out of paper mache so I gave up and used some different materials to make the teeth and horns instead. 


My final design was a bit different from my original drawing of my mask. My final mask still had horns, teeth and hair, but in my original idea the face was green and instead on my mask I painted the mask in dark brown colours and painted black paint around the eyes. In my drawing I made the teeth bright white but on my mask I painted the teeth a greeny-white colour to make them look rotten. My final mask also had hair but in my drawing I did lots of hair and it was a ginger colour but on my mask I had strips of red material and I didn't put loads of this on top of the head so my mask is also bald. On my drawing I put black eyebrows on it but on my mask i decided to mix a brown and a white and made thick eyebrows. 


My mask is fairly hard and wont break easily during performances but the elastic that holds up the mask is loose and will have to be tightened because it will fall off during performances. 


If I made my mask again I would make the horns and the teeth out of paper mache instead of giving up and making them out of card and pipe cleaners. This way it would have looked more like horns and teeth. I would have also used material to cover the face and the chosen material would have been a furry material to make it look more like a beast. 


I did enjoy making my mask and it made me realise that there are different ways to make something that looks like it could be difficult to make.