As George has already mentioned, our killer utilises a mask in our thriller. And while George has already chosen a final design (with the rest of our help) and touched upon our idea for using a mask, we have not said why we decided that our killer should have one.
Our original idea for the bare-bones of the story is that if the pocket-watch is in your possession, you must murder a person at the same time for every day. And while the pocket-watch is the key point in our storyline the mask was simply added for aesthetics. We added the mask, subconsciously, because if the killer is wearing a mask, we can create a deep psychological fear in every human that watches. The fear of not knowing. The mask, not only hides the identity of the killer but hides his emotions, his soul, it hides the very things that define us as human so that all we see is the mask, the body is unimportant but the mask, the mask symbolises the natural human fear of the unknown: the fear of what lies beyond the edge, of what horrors the mask may hide.
After including an idea of a mask and deciding which mask we were to use we gave it a story. The mask, along with the aforementioned pocket-watch, are passed down from killer to killer. When one killer cannot continue with the senseless murder and chooses to die instead, another aquires the mask and pocket-watch and becomes the next killer. The key to the story is the pocket-watch, the mask is simply an addition to the killers image that continues along the chain of murderers. This may make the mask seem unimportant, but it truly doesn't. What would you view with more fear, confusion, or simple interest: Me (we decided that i am most likely to portray the killer) and my big, dopey face devoid of any emotion as the villain, or an unblinking, unchanging view of a doorway to possible madness and murder, of a past so blood soaked and twisted that you cannot help but fear it, along with its ever unchanging, undiluted face of happyness...
The mask provides so much more conflicting emotions and interest into a killer, because who knows what hides behind the mask...?
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