- "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 engaging stories and scripts for puppet performances, focusing on audience engagement.
Character Development: The art of creating and defining a character through their behavior, traits, attitude, and characteristics. This includes writing believable backstories, motivations and growth.
Dialogue: Writing conversations that sound realistic and natural; how characters speak, interact and express themselves in a way that furthers their development and the storyline.
Narrative Structure: Understanding the different components of storytelling that make up a compelling script and their placement, such as the Act 1, Act 2 and Act 3.
Plot: Creating a sequence of events that drive the story forward, introduces conflict, and resolves it at the end.
Conflict: Understanding types of conflict and how it helps to make the story more interesting by creating tension, drama, and suspense.
Mood and Tone: Learning how to set up the mood and tone by exploring the use of setting, props, and lighting to create a specific mood and atmosphere that aligns with the narrative.
Visual Storytelling: The use of visual elements and techniques like angles, shots, and framing to convey meaning through images and enhance the viewer experience.
Writing a treatment: This involves creating a summary of the script in 1-2 pages, outlining the storyline and key elements of the script.
Character Arc: Understanding how characters change throughout the story, their growth, and their journey.
Scene Writing: Learning the art of writing scenes that carry the story forward while packing punches, ideally making the audience engage with the characters and understand the story better.
Theme and Motif: Identifying the main Idea and the central message behind the story that the director/screenwriter wants to convey through the story. The theme is often reinforced through motifs that are weaved throughout the story subtly.
Genre: Understanding the basics of genres like drama, horror, romance, comedy, and their attributes, often used elements, and how they play out in the story.
World Building: Building a world in which the story is set and fleshing it out with the necessary elements that add to the story's credibility and depth.
Adaptation: Adapting an existing story (book, comic, etc.), along with the art of storytelling, preserving the core of the source material, and molding the script to fit the visual medium.
Pacing: Pace involves the speed at which the story is unfolding as the story progresses. Pacing within the story is critical in keeping the audience engaged and interested throughout the narrative.
Script formatting: Learning the standard format of scriptwriting and how to write and structure the script, including spacing, margins, and formatting the page.
Collaborative Process: Acknowledging that modern-day storytelling is a collaborative effort that involves cooperation among the director, writer, cartoonist, and actors.
Psychology of characters: Understanding basic human psychology could help write more believable characters, including reading books on the subject, or online resources.
Screenwriting: This is the art of writing scripts for movies, television shows or web series. Screenwriting primarily involves creating compelling characters, developing interesting storylines, and writing engaging dialogue.
Playwriting: This is the art of writing scripts for stage plays, which involves creating characters, scenes, and dialogue that are meant to be performed in front of a live audience.
Radio Drama: This is a type of scriptwriting that is specifically designed for radio shows. It involves developing fascinating characters and stories that can be conveyed through dialogue and sound effects.
Sketch Writing: This type of scriptwriting is often used in comedy shows, where writers create short, funny skits that are meant to entertain audiences.
Puppetry: This is a form of storytelling that involves using puppets to convey a story. Puppetry can be performed in a variety of settings, such as the theater or on television.
Digital Media Scriptwriting: In this type of scriptwriting, writers create scripts for digital media platforms, such as web series or YouTube videos.
Nonfiction Writing: This type of writing involves scripts for documentaries, news reports, interviews, and other nonfiction media.
Animation Scriptwriting: This is the art of writing scripts for animated cartoons or films. It involves creating unique characters and plotlines that can be depicted through animation.
Soap Opera Writing: This type of scriptwriting is used in the creation of soap operas, which are popular TV dramas featuring intertwining plotlines, dramatic twists, and cliffhangers.
Improvisational Comedy: This is a form of scriptwriting that involves creating scenarios and characters that can be improvised upon during a performance. It requires a great deal of creativity and a willingness to be spontaneous.
- "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."