In our previous lesson, we made our own paper puppet and thought of how we can move it realistically. In class, we learned how to make the puppet look breath, move like it is living and how we can make it easy for the audience to understand the story.
- From the aspect of story telling, puppet is really useful because by using puppet in a right way, it makes the audience like they are looking the actual animal or person. In Lion King, a puppet of Zazoo is used. It has a lot of things that we can do with it such as moving the mouth and eyes. This is used because it is difficult for human to act animals in an actual show and it is really clear for the audience to understand the story.
- From the aspect of emotion, it is actually difficult to express the character’s emotion. But by their movement, emotions can be expressed. For example, when the character is sad you can make them look down to show that they are depressed.
- From the aspect of manipulation, it is very important because if they did not use it well, the audience can not concentrate on the story and look at the human controlling them. In Lion King, there are motors in Scar’s helmet. It moves up, down, front and back to make him look scary in some scenes for example when Scar is trying tho frighten Sinba, he puts his helmet down so that it looks like we are looking at the puppet not the actor that is acting the character.
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