This explains how I made the Golden Stag mask for the finale of Head Over Heels, a film we were allowed to make for streaming (instead of the usual stage show) because of the Covid 19 Pandemic. (Last time to stream is 6/18/21-6/20/21!)
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I don’t know if this would have come as a surprise to me if it were not 2020-2021 when we went from the idea of doing Head Over Heels as a first part of Fall semester stage musical, to a film production taking up the whole Spring Semester and only premiering for streaming download this June of 2021 (final weekend of streaming is 6/18/21-6/20/21), but I did not realize until we were a week or two into filming that there was supposed to be a lion in this show. For a long time I did not have a script (while we were getting the OK for making a film) and I did most of my designs only having seen a “Slime Tutorial” of a production taken from dodgy angles before putting pen to paper. So when I was asked a week into filming what the Lion costume was going to look like, my reaction was “What Lion Costume?”
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The masks for the chorus of Head Over Heels (Film, 2021 Diablo Valley College) were made by sewing a cloth cover which had been drawn with sharpies to a KN95 mask. You can see the images below of the cloth covers before application to the masks. If you want to make a similar mask you can print out these pages and use them with a light box to see and draw out the images to replicate or adapt these designs.
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