Puppetry requires control and subtlety in performance to bring puppets to life. Proper eye focus, choreography, and illusion of movement are important techniques when multiple puppets are in a scene. Effective lip sync, characterization, breathing, thought, rhythm, and movement are keys to giving puppet performances life and drawing in an audience. Maintaining focus and control is important if flustered during a performance.
Puppetry requires control and subtlety in performance to bring puppets to life. Proper eye focus, choreography, and illusion of movement are important techniques when multiple puppets are in a scene. Effective lip sync, characterization, breathing, thought, rhythm, and movement are keys to giving puppet performances life and drawing in an audience. Maintaining focus and control is important if flustered during a performance.
Puppetry requires control and subtlety in performance to bring puppets to life. Proper eye focus, choreography, and illusion of movement are important techniques when multiple puppets are in a scene. Effective lip sync, characterization, breathing, thought, rhythm, and movement are keys to giving puppet performances life and drawing in an audience. Maintaining focus and control is important if flustered during a performance.
Puppetry requires control and subtlety in performance to bring puppets to life. Proper eye focus, choreography, and illusion of movement are important techniques when multiple puppets are in a scene. Effective lip sync, characterization, breathing, thought, rhythm, and movement are keys to giving puppet performances life and drawing in an audience. Maintaining focus and control is important if flustered during a performance.
Control is a fundamental aspect of puppetry. Anyone Generally the puppets mouth should open can wave a puppet around but a puppeteer is in full once for each syllable. Techniques for lip control of their performance. Having subtleties in your sync will vary depending on the speed, performance can truly bring a puppet to life. It is similar rhythm of the dialoged. to acting; you can really draw an audience in when Here are some things to keep in mind: your performance is natural rather than overacting. • Syllables • Important beats Eye Focus • Henson Punch • Emphasizing words and phrases This is especially important when multiple puppets are in a scene together. To keep a scene looking natural all puppets must have correct eye focus. Even if one puppeteer is maintaining proper eye focus, the Things to think about other character would be distracting to the audience. when giving your puppet life • Characterization • Breathing (the puppet should inhale when you do) Puppet Choreography • Thought & Focus Puppet to the right, arms to the left and vice-versa. • Rhythm & Timing • Lip Sync • Movement Ground • Proper body position Giving a puppet ground is creating the illusion of • Arm rods the character walking.
Tips If you get flustered
• Refocus and maintain control of your hand • Put all of your performance into your hand • Do not be distracted if your lip sync is off. • Drop your thumb to control lip sync Refocus and keep going. • Puppet vibrato (do not abuse it)