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Production Blog: Finding the Mask

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! It has been a long journey with having to research first all the different genres and titles.  We are finally in the production stages of our final task and are about to start with making our film. Today I want to talk with you guys about the first step of our production. The first step of our production was getting props. The props we need for the opening sequence is a mask for our antagonist. We specifically want a black mask for our sequence. We want black because we feel it will represent danger even more. I went to go get props with my group-mate Mya. Mya and I went to get the props from a store. The store we went to was Party City. We went to a party city that was near our house. When we walked in we went to the mask section within the store. When we were in the section there was so many different masks. We found 2 black masks in the mask section that we liked. Because we liked both we were indecisive about which to choose. One was like a cotton black mask and had an opening on the nose. and one was more plastic. Another was a mask with just hole openings. We decided to go with the plastic one because it looked more scary, we thought the cotton gave off more robber vibes, and the plastic was less unexpected. Thank you for reading my blog and be back for more!





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