Puppetry

When Melies was only at a young age, he started to get passionate about the arts. He decided when he was younger he was going to perused a career in stage design and puppetry. He made it in what he pursued to become but because he was really brilliant. It guided him to become huge in the film industry for a short time. Now with Porter, he wasn’t as successful like Melies in the film industry. Porter had experience with electrical engineering unlike Melies. Because he was well experience with…

reference to use of positive and negative space to create strong contrast and attention to the shape and form of the figures used to progress a narrative through movement, sound and dialogue. Artists will gain an appreciation and understanding of how puppetry and oral storytelling can serve as a successful method of transferring history and information within cultures and over time.…

In 1938, Antonin Artaud brought to light the important factors that should be involved in making a play. Antonin Artaud was a French dramatist, poet, actor and director. In 1931, after watching a Balinese dance at the Paris Colonial Exposition, Artaud was inspired and wrote The Theatre and its Double. Mise en Scene is the set design and surroundings involved in a play, according to Artaud it has an import role in theatre. In his manifesto, he discussed theatres lack of images, dynamism and he…

An important step before assuming that the intervention will be applicable to the client, a clinician should confirm that the use of puppetry is acceptable. Parents or caregivers should be introduced to the intervention first. They will be provided information early on and this introduction will be able to ameliorate or prevent the child from becoming traumatized or disturbed. Even though…

In Livermore High School’s rendition of “The 39 Steps,” originally an Alfred Hitchcock movie turned theatrical production in 2005, the lively actors successfully bring to life a comedic twist on the classic Hitchcock style. “The 39 Steps” is riddled with clever references to famous Hitchcock films, making the rendition very playful. The theatrical play of “The 39 Steps” differs mostly from the movie because, unlike every Hitchcock film, it does not take itself seriously. The play is meant to be…

to display a black or white image onto a cloth or screen. To make it all you needed to do is select a suitable image, replace the normal printing paper with a transparent sheet and print. This is extremely simple but and effective method in shadow puppetry. I have been selected to take and replace the sheets from the projector and selecting the images which are suitable to the current scene. The images I have chosen range from an introduction picture of A…

Right from the moment you arrived in the venue where the young king was to be viewed, you felt a part of the performance. Called a citizen of the kingdom of the Young King, you were summoned up to the ‘King’s coronation’ in groups of 10 by a friendly servant of the Young King. Then through the passage of mysteries after being haphazardly directed by a frazzled servant of the king, we came to a hallway. Trusted curiously with three secrets; “Examine secrets that are entrusted to you”, “Remember…

Ms. Christy was in the observation booth to observe her class and intern. She was able to give me more information about this child’s literacy involvement and skills. What she had told me is that she reads to the dolls, reenacts situations, uses puppetry as a form of literacy and is working on writing her name. The child is able to write the beginning and end letters of her name. Its is taking time for her to memorize it and write the entire thing since it is not a short name. It is great that…

Shadow puppetry is used to recreate an explosive plane and a chase across the rugged countryside. With the limited sets it made it easy and cheap to travel and perform across the country. The most amazing part of the 39 steps performance was the fact it only featured…

The simple fact of being a women makes you impure as you approach puppetry and have menstruation. This concept of impureness lead to a horrible tradition, which having the female genitalia “carved out or scraped off”, and then being sew close. This traditions derived from the Islamic religion and they affect the social…