Friday, October 31, 2008
Hello everyone!
Today, ATC had their first preparation session for our trip to Marryatville! We started off with some drafts, courtesy of Mrs Kamal and all the people who had previously participated in the puppetry workshop back in 2006, which focused on larger-than-life puppets, controlled by three people apiece. The story, adapted from the old Chinese folktale of the monster Nian, was filled in by Cheryl, and then work began.
The whole team decided on a base rectangular frame, which would rest on the main puppeteer's shoulders, and therefore support another frame, which would consist of the puppet's head and shoulders (which would in turn, link to the arms).
And after much doodling and asking and string and scissors and sweat (thanks to Cheryl and Salmah who went all the way to get us more pipes for the frames, as well as Carmina and Zheshuo and Praveena who went to get the wooden tube-things cut at the D&T block with Mr. Nathan) and a lot of idle chit-chat, the main frames for both the male and female puppets were complete! (You should be able to see it in the picture if you strain a bit. Its in the top left corner, mostly covered by the tables and chairs...) Sadly, we couldn't do the secondary frames, due to lack of materials.
But we'll try harder next week (won't we?)! :D
Apologies if I missed out your name during the mention of hard labor, everyone's effort was appreciated today!
And happy Halloween to everyone. Remember to scare your sister/brother/mother/father/friends/
- Cassie
Add-On!
My apologies! I forgot to mention someone who contributed a ton on Friday as well! Minyi orchestrated the whole mass of us for the frame-construction, so kudos to her!
Labels: puppet construction
we had a smashing good day, 9:11 PM.