Mold Castings for Making Theatre Masks

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Emily DeCola in Puppet Kitchen in New York City. Today we are going to talk about theatrical masks. So as I mentioned a lot of the masks that I build are of different materials and techniques. For example on this table you would see a selection on different kinds of masks from different shows. Over on the extreme left here actually not a mask, it is a cast of my face. Which is one of the most useful things that a mask designer could have available to them when they are starting a process in creating a mask. You would probably think I know what I look like why do I need a cast of my own face to build a mask onto. You can certainly use a mask of somebody else's face. For example sometimes when I'm building a mask for a show that are very specific it needs to fit very specifically I would make cast with every single mask performers face. So I can build the mask literally directly onto their face or rather on to the plaster cast. "