Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:37:42 +0800
From: "Mok Chiu Yu" <mokchiuyu-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet People video playing at Film Fest


Thanks Mark.
What Film Festival is that?
Mok (Hong Kong)

2008/9/14 Puppet People <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>

> Hello critters;
>    I am just writing, I guess, to toot my own horn, but the short video I
> sent out a few weeks ago (Ketchup Wars 2 The Old Fart Strikes Back) is
> being
> played at a Film Festival this weekend. Yeah really it's the truth!!!!!!!!!
>    The Festival organizer saw it on youtube, e-mailed me and asked if they
> could use it. I of course said yes.
>    Believe me I was very suprised since I made it quick and crudely but I
> think the audience may find it funny, hell I did.
>    Just to spark your memory, this is the video with Animal & Cookie
> Monster as well as "our puppets" being Light Sabered. If you haven't seen
> it
> the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54lKrAXvx8
>     Again ingnore this if you want, I just was very excited, I only stared
> making my videos about a year ago so as you can tell I'm Thrilled!!!!
>
> Bye
> Mark
> The Puppet People
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Shur" <mr_utamaro-AT-hotmail.com>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Cinderella FX
>
>
> >
> > I like the idea of using the shadow screen for the carriage
> > transformation, nothing "grows" more easily than a shadow.
> >
> > For the cinderella outfit change, what about having the rags velcroed
> > lightly over the compressed ballgown. Complete with clunky boots over the
> > glass slippers. A puppeteer yanks them off with a thread, maybe from
> below
> > and a tiara floats down on a string connected to the head. (this is sort
> > of assuming you don't already have a before and after puppet which now
> > that I think about it, you probably do)
> >
> > Okay, another try, for a combination fairy dust, costume change that's
> > elegant, but non traditional, , what about dancers' ribbons on stiff
> > wires, covered in glitter, they twirl around cinderella (a bit a
> backstage
> > choreography needed there) and float her uppast the arch. She floats down
> > a changed puppet and the fairy dust ribbons float off.
> >
> > Aw hell, you should probably use a scrim.
> >
> > B. Shur
> >
> >
> >> From: alangregorycook-AT-msn.com
> >> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> >> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:45:06 +0000
> >> Subject: [Puptcrit] Cinderella FX
> >>
> >> Brian--
> >>
> >> If you are using shadow scenes within the mariontte show, why not use
> >> shadows for the pumpkin-to-coach transformation?
> >>
> >> Have a shadow pumpkin roll into the scene. Depending on your light
> >> source, you may be able to enlarge the shape of the pumpkin a bit by
> >> pulling away from the screen for a larger shadow, then quickly introduce
> >> a larger pumpkin shadow with minor visual changes. Repeat with a larger
> >> pumpkin figure becoming more coachlike.
> >>
> >> This process can be done manually on a vertical screen or horizontally
> >> with TWO overhead projectors which alternately fade in/out.
> Stylistically
> >> & dramatically it could fit in with Tom Tichenor's traditional puppets.
> >> Then in the next maionette scene you have a fully 3-D coach
> >>
> >> I don't know of anyone who has done the coach transformation this way.
> >>
> >> ALAN COOK
> >>
> >>
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