The plain white masks I bought on amazon had no expressions on them and where genderless, so they could stay as simple as possible. I originally thought of just leaving them as that, but then I thought “why not experiment a bit”, since I had 2 spare masks. The first one I just cut in half through the nose because the mouth area is where most emotions are mainly expressed, and having that covered can dramatically reduce the visual expressions of emotions to any of Autem’s victims. The second design I chose was to dent and dirty the mask to make it look immensely used and worn down, with cracks, tears, and all. Ultimately, I chose the first idea as it was the simplest, and I personally think had the stronger fear factor.
Styrofoam heads.
To begin my design, I purchased 8 male figure Styrofoam heads from eBay:
Then I carried out deep research into what design I can give the heads, the first choice I thought of was to paint around the eyes something related to the emotions that will be linked to the head, for example, the emotion of sadness I might paint tears dripping down the eyes, or even black tears to make it creepier. But then I realised some emotions don’t have very obvious associations with them, for example how will I show happy or frustration through the figures eyes, if the mask will cover up the mouth. As I was trying to think of a new idea I noticed how big the head of the figure is and thought how big the figures brain might be inside if it had one, which then lead to the thought of brain activity and CT scans. I theorised that maybe each emotion is linked to a separate area of the brain, so I carried out research and eventually found this website:
which informed me and showed me this map of what area of the brain each emotion is linked to:
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