Final Day of Shoot

Dancers turned up half an hour to an hour late. Had a dance studio booked for them to have some rehearsal time and some space for me to apply the masks and makeup. They practiced till about 1:00pm in doing so leaving me with only an hour to apply four full face makeup and glue the masks on. Didn't have time to glue the masks on at the dance studio so we decided to quickly apply them on location. After rounding everyone up we set off towards Trafalgar square, unfortunately we were unaware of a scheduled live event and so I had to make a snap decision to relocate and shoot elsewhere. I chose Leicester square and everything went very well after that. Shot a few takes and it was received by the public very well. On the whole the project had many problems and issues, however it all went very well in the end and I am proud of the end result.  

Stills from the flash mob

The making of the masks...

The liquid latex was extremely messy and let off a very strong smell. Not to mention that it took a long time to dry. In the end I had to resort to using a hairdryer to dry in-between layers. It was a long lengthy process but I think they were very effective in the end. When painting them I wanted it to have the 'aged, cracked look' I think it looks more sinister if it wasn't perfectly painted. For example 'the joker in batman, the dark knight'.