My goal for this story is to teach the audience the importance of not abusing your power. Puppet shows are great for teaching young children life lessons, so making the backgrounds all colorful, setting the story in a fantasy setting, and giving the main character a very specific voice is what makes this show reminiscent of the ones shown to preschoolers. The purpose this serves is to make this show mean it is for teaching something.
My inspiration for the methods I used to bring the Foolish Knight to life mainly came from the puppet breathing and expression techniques I learned in class from a puppeteer from Rough House Theatre. Making my hand puppet move at all times, even if it is with very small movements such as breathing, makes a big difference compared to just putting it on my hand and keeping it still until it needs to do something, like walk.
I chose the story to take place in a medieval kingdom because it was not uncommon at the time to see knights abusing their power over the poor citizens living in nearby villages. With this in mind, I decided to take these historical occurrences and simplify the basics of how and what happens when they take place into a four-minute puppet show representing the similar problems we face in the present.
Writing the overall story was not very difficult. I knew what I wanted to happen in the show and the purpose each special moment serves. I did struggle with polishing the script. I tend to make things sound more complicated than they really are, along with including words that are not needed in a sentence. However, it turned out well in my opinion. The original plan was to read the whole script as I control some of the puppets, but found that I could only put my focus into one of those things, narrating and puppeteering, while I do both. This caused either sloppy puppeteering or narrating with lots of stutters. I resolved this by having my mom do all of the talking as I control the puppets. My mom also controlled some of the puppets herself because I needed an extra set of hands.
Finally, a show cannot be performed without a stage. I took different colored softcore foamboards and colored some scenery onto them to make the backgrounds for each scene. My mom also suggested the medieval music to play for the first half of the show to add to its theme. The setup was not the most comfortable for my arms as I tried to control the puppets from below where the camera can't see me. I also had to be careful with the backgrounds because they could be knocked over really easily. In the end, after a few previous attempts, I think we filmed a pretty good run of the show with an iPhone in the center of a ring light. This was a fun project and I am happy with its outcome. I hope you enjoyed it!
Hello, in this blog I was told to make a podcast about myself. I thought, what would I feel more connected to than my Lithuanian roots. This is for a class called Who Am I, WAI for short. It is a philosophy class where we learn all about different philosophers and ourselves too. Sometimes it would even connect to our FUEL class. We were assigned to read a book called "Sophie's World", which is a philosophy based book about a young girl named Sophie who receives unknown letters written by a mysterious philosopher. The letters would contain data of famous philosophers from the past, and questions like "why are legos the most ingenious toy in the world?". This is where the FUEL part comes in. Sophie would observe the letter and actual legos and realize that they are like atoms. They are unbreakable, could be connected and separated, and used to make something else. Like how atoms are used to create elements. That is a taste of what Who Am I is like. I hop...
Welcome to my first action project for this terms Humanities class, Forbidden Books. This class is about banned and/or censored information, which things like books carry, that some people might not want the public to know about and why. For the first part of the term, we learned about the Socratic Method. The Socratic Method is basically an argument, but with a lot of questions of "why" involved. There are five steps to the Socratic Method. First, look for statements that people would call common sense. Second, find an exception to that rule. Third, if you have proven your statement false, you must go back and ask the question again. Fourth, refine your response. Fifth, continue the process for as long as possible. The Socratic Method can be considered dangerous because it can change how someone thinks, believes, or sees the world around them. This is what got Socrates, the one who invented it, killed for spreading his knowledge onto the children of Athens about there being ...
Welcome to the final Action Project for my first HUMANITIES class of Junior year - Rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art of persuasive speaking or writing, using figures of speech and other techniques in order to make it effective. Compared with previous units, in this unit we learned more about the history of rhetoric and how it has been used over centuries and has evolved. One of the biggest topics we went over was the history of the British Parliament versus the colonists of the United States. There was a war of words between America and England long before the revolutionary era. Although they were arguing with one another, they seemed to use the same rhetorical devices we use today to get their points across. For this action project, we were assigned to either write or create a piece of RhetoArt that symbolizes a current issue affecting the world today. I hope you enjoy! __________________ I am someone who cares about the world and the mental state of which it's people are in. The ...
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