Costume Fittings and Mask Making

On the 8^th of May we all went in for our costume fittings and mask making for the Poland trip. Firstly we had our costumes fitted; they depended on our character’s personality and class. For my character Jack Finney I had ragged and different coloured clothes to show how my character had the lowest class but is clever and confident.

After we all had our costume fittings we when upstairs to start the mask making. For this we had to firstly put Vaseline all over our face and in our hairline, it was fair to say our skin looked very shinny. Next we started to actually make the masks by putting cast on our forehead down to just above our top lip. We all learnt how to place the cast and it was really hard trying not to laugh or smile so it didn’t break the cast.

In order to remove the cast we had to screw our faces up. Seeing the masks afterwards was strange, I didn’t realise my nose looked like that.

Although the activity was messy it was actually quite fun.  

Rachel Mullock