- "Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer."
Creating costumes and props for puppets to enhance their appearance and performance.
Costume Design: The art of creating costumes for theatrical productions, films, or other performances.
Sewing Techniques: The different ways to stitch fabric together, used to create costumes.
Fabric Selection: The consideration of fabric types and textures for costume and prop creation.
Pattern Making: Creating custom patterns for costumes or props, usually from scratch.
Prop Design: The art of creating props for theatrical productions, films, or other performances.
Materials and Methods for Prop Building: The different supplies and techniques used to create props, such as foam carving or 3D printing.
Makeup and Hairstyling: Creating realistic makeup and hair styling that complement the costume and character.
Research Techniques: The ways to research historical or fictional costumes and props accurately and creatively.
Character Analysis: Understanding the character's persona and designing costumes and props that reflect it.
Budgeting and Time Management: Managing the cost and time effectively for costume and prop creation.
Communication Skills: The ability to communicate with other team members to convey ideas effectively.
Collaboration Skills: The ability to work with others in a team setting to achieve a cohesive costume and prop design vision.
Safety and Health: The importance of safety and health guidelines when creating costumes and props.
Storage and Maintenance: The proper way to store and maintain costumes and props to ensure they last for future productions.
Historical Costuming: Reproduces the clothing from a specific era in time.
Fantasy Costuming: Often used for theatre or film purposes.
Cosplay Costuming: Dressing up as a specific character from a game, movie, or show.
Costume Design for Dance: Makes the dancer's movements easier to see and more dramatic.
Theatrical Costuming: Creating costumes for a play or musical.
Hand puppets: Controlled by your hand inside of a puppet.
Foam puppets: Made from foam or latex and can be controlled by strings or rods.
Marionettes: Controlled by strings from above.
Shadow puppets: Performed behind a screen.
Hand-held props: Items such as weapons or food used in a play or movie.
Set props: Used to enhance the set design and create the illusion of a real environment or situation.
- "The script for a puppet production is called a puppet play."
- "Puppeteers use movements from hands and arms to control devices such as rods or strings to move the body, head, limbs, and in some cases the mouth and eyes of the puppet."
- "The puppeteer sometimes speaks in the voice of the character of the puppet, while at other times they perform to a recorded soundtrack."
- "There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use."
- "The simplest puppets are finger puppets, which are tiny puppets that fit onto a single finger."
- "Sock puppets... operated by inserting one's hand inside the sock, with the opening and closing of the hand simulating the movement of the puppet's 'mouth'."
- "A hand puppet or glove puppet is controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet and moves the puppet around."
- "Punch and Judy puppets are familiar examples."
- "Japanese Bunraku puppets... require two puppeteers for each puppet."
- "Marionettes are suspended and controlled by a number of strings, plus sometimes a central rod attached to a control bar held from above by the puppeteer."
- "Rod puppets... have more movement possibilities as a consequence than a simple hand or glove puppet."
- "Puppetry is a very ancient form of theatre which was first recorded in the 5th century BC in Ancient Greece."
- "Some forms of puppetry may have originated as long ago as 3000 years BC."
- "Puppetry takes many forms, but they all share the process of animating inanimate performing objects to tell a story."
- "Puppetry occurs in almost all human societies..."
- "Puppets are used... as sacred objects in rituals."
- "Puppets are used... as symbolic effigies in celebrations such as carnivals."
- "Puppets are used... as a catalyst for social and psychological change in transformative arts."
- "Puppets are used... for the purpose of entertainment through performance, as sacred objects in rituals, as symbolic effigies in celebrations such as carnivals, and as a catalyst for social and psychological change in transformative arts."