To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:06:07 -0400 From: dhpuppet-AT-aol.com Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] skill sets Let's not forget computer expert accountant,? book keeper secretary, sound engineer, lighting designer,scenic designer. Prop designer , public relations expert Dae H. -----Original Message----- From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Sent: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 8:27 am Subject: [Puptcrit] skill sets We have touched on this before but let me approach it a little differently. I think it is interesting to think about the skill sets each of us bring to puppetry. There are several skills or talents that would seem like obvious ones to have if we are the "try to be it all" puppeteer. The ones that come to mind are: -performer. -wit. -expert manipulator. -Actor/ dramatists -puppet builder -visual asthetics -sculpture -seamstress -engineer/inventor -painter -woodworker -fabricator in plastics/silicon/etc -playwright/writer -director Just to mention a few. I don't know anyone who is all these things %100. The interesting thing is how each of us fills the gap with our other dominant talent and how we bridge those deficiencies and come out in the end with our unque approaches in the process. I can point to several deficiencies in my own skill set which should prove me inadequate to do the work I do. I see deficiencies in others puppeteers which suggest the same and yet I have had success and those others have had it as well. Many of us hire out our weak areas to others and yet some don't. I should hire others with the skill I lack but I don't always do so. Our dominant talents are sometimes used to bridge over our weak areas creating something that is often unique. Thats the thing that fascinates me. Perhaps we could hire those areas out to experts but in the process we might miss the opportunity to create something unique by not doing so and letting our dominant skill bridge the gap and in the result be unique. My wife is a musician and produced her first CD several years ago. The producer brought in studio musicians and in the end the CD was slick but wasn't her. At the same time I have seen puppeteers hire out these weak areas and maintain their authentic style while pushing their show over the top. So I am asking: When is it time to hire out the the work to an expert and when does that create work that is not truly allowing our own talents and lack of them to create work that is truly unique, deficiencies and all? _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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