Masky Mask Mask

 

BASEL MASKS -

These are the masks that we were lucky enough to be able to use during our class. 

What are basel Masks?

Basel Painted a traditional white, the Basel masks are made of light, long-lasting neoprene. Developed as theatrical tools by legendary mask and movement innovator, Jacques Lecoq, Basel, and Larval Masks are excellent for teaching theatrical projection and timing.

COMMADIA MASKS - 

What are Commedia masks? 

Commedia dell'arte masks are one of the most integral aspects of each stock character. Each mask design is paired with a specific character based on its appearance and tradition. Masks were originally all made of leather, but now more commonly made of neoprene.

GREEK MASKS - 

What are Greek Masks? 

The masks were most likely made out of lightweight, organic materials like stiffened linen, leather, wood, or cork, with the wig consisting of human or animal hair. ... Greek mask-maker, Thanos Vovolis, suggests that the mask serves as a resonator for the head, thus enhancing vocal acoustics and altering its quality.

MASQUERADE MASKS - 

What are masquerade masks?

Masquerade masks had many uses including hiding one's identity and using a different color to express one's freedom of speech and voice one's emotions and opinions without judgment. There were two types of base masquerade masks; black masks and white masks.

Making Our own masks! 

It sounds pretty simple but this activity took more time than the performance. I and my group were focusing our masks off of the emotions happy, sad, angry, and scared. My mask was based on happy which I thought was the hardest one to do as I couldn't use the paper template as it already had a blank face carved out, and that wouldn't do so I cut my own out of cardboard and made different eyes and mouth. This was a very good decision as I thought my mask turned out excellent! To finish it all off I added some details like freckles and outlines everything in yellow to make it look happier! 

Creating a performance! 

This in my opinion was the best part! and my group gathered backstage and decided on an uplifting song and what better music than carnival music! After we all agreed on a song (it took a lot longer than it should have) we choose our setting but in the end, it didn't really show the setting but that didn't matter because it was more focused on our performance and how we held our bodies to show the emotions that we were trying to present. Over I think my group did well but could have been better if we had more time, so it was a really really short performance but it was still really really fun!