Jason Voorhees is a popular negative fictional character. For the first time this hero appeared in the cult horror film Friday the 13th. The main character of the movie maniac is Jason's hockey mask, in which he appears before the audience most often. Despite his considerable age, a fictional monster does not lose its popularity, but on the contrary, appears more and more often in new films, books and comics. How to make a Jason Voorhees mask for a costume party or photo shoot?
Is Jason Voorhees a person or a monster with supernatural powers?
In 1979, the cult horror film “Friday the 13th” was released. His most striking character is Jason Voorhees. This hero was born with serious pathology, hydrocephalus. Because of this disease, the baby's head was greatly enlarged, and his face was ugly. For this reason, the boy constantly suffered from peer attacks and tried not to communicate with them at all. Together with his mother, Jason was at Crystal Lake Camp, where she worked.
Once, after regular bullying by peers, a child drowned in obscure circumstances. After this tragedy, his mother went crazy and decided to take revenge on her son’s offenders on her own. The distraught woman was killed by one of the potential victims during the attack. Jason Voorhees rose from the dead and gained inhuman strength. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge, he turned into a merciless killer. Jason's hockey mask appears in the same film, a maniac takes it from one of the guys he killed. This accessory was designed specifically for filming. The design of the mask is borrowed from an element of sports equipment of the really existing hockey team Detroit Red Wings. In the film, Jason's hockey mask looks very worn and dirty. On its surface there is a mass of deep scratches.
How to make a do-it-yourself Jason mask?
The simplest and highest-quality version of home-made carnival masks is the papier-mâché technique. Start by creating a base form. It can be molded from clay or clay. Jason's mask has a simple shape. It is oval, with a flat surface of the face, on which stands a wide "flattened" nose and eyebrows. Accordingly, the basis can be fashioned in the form of an arbitrary sketchy face. It is advisable to wrap the prepared form with cling film. Then it should be glued with separate pieces of paper in several layers.
Attention: this hockey mask is made of thick plastic and performs a protective function. Do not be lazy and apply enough layers of paper. Leave your work to dry for at least a day.
Decor and creation of special signs
When the mask of Jason Voorhees dries, you can carefully remove it from the base and proceed to design. Cut out her eyes, and then drill through holes with a drill. Do not be too lazy to see the photo of Jason, the holes on the mask should be arranged in a special sequence. The finished mask must be completely painted white or a shade of ivory. An important element of the decor is red triangles. They need to be drawn only three: on the forehead, and symmetrically on the cheeks (angles directed to the alleged wings of the nose).
You got a beautiful and new hockey mask. But how to turn it into a favorite accessory of a movie maniac? Jason’s mask, made with his own hands, will turn out to be as similar as possible to the original, if you artificially “age” it. Scratches can be left with any sharp object. In some films, Jason appeared in a mask stained with dirt or blood. You can create such stains with a suitable shade of paint.
Hockey Mask Mounts
You finally got the real Jason mask. How to make her rest on her head? The correct mounting option for hockey masks is a double wide elastic band. One rubberized tape is fixed approximately in the middle from two sides. The second is in the middle of the upper part of the mask and connects to the middle of the first gum. It is advisable to try on the product at this stage on the model and “fit” it as accurately as possible on the circumference of the head. Elastic bands can be threaded into specially made holes or glued. Congratulations, your mask is ready, you can safely go to the costume party!