Puppets and Effects

Puppets!! We already talked in class about puppets and the different kind of puppets that exist... but I never thought on the effect these caused. In photos we have seen in class with Roberto and in the workshop with Martin and Maria Laura everybody in the class went like “WOW” and get surprised with very big puppets or maybe laughter was created by some funny characteristic of the puppets. In “Vedova in Lumine” the effect created was that I don’t wanted to see any more and disturbance… but focusing on the puppet shows that TÁRBOL presented I get other type of effects. In the first puppet show the effect was laughter and in the second one the effect was wonder and surprise.

Puppets can have different effect depending on how you animate them, what actions they do, size, how they look like, the colours, and more. All these combined together creates different effects on the audience. In “Juancha y Mariacha” the colours and the exaggerated actions the dog could do make the audience feel happy and animated. When I saw this puppet show I realized also that not only the appearance of the puppet is important but how you manage the movement to look alike and the voice you give to the puppets. In the other puppet show Tárbol demonstrated, “Santuario de Febriles Sonrisas” I could notice again how all the aesthetics I mentioned at the beginning of the paragraph also created different effects.  The use the use of black and white only created seriousness on the puppet show. The size made it really focused and so the actions and movement of the puppets where more precise…. As it was real and made it really intense. In this puppet show I could understand what Martin was talking about when he said that puppets can do things that human’s can’t. The slow motion effect used for the seizure used this advantage of the puppets for example, as it made the puppet “float” on the space and created a surprising effect. 

Juancha y Mariacha

Santuario de Febriles Sonrisas

Starting to make my own puppet was so difficult… I am not very good with the hands and I am not very patient either. Working on the puppet made me realize how each thing you do with the sponge will have an effect on what the puppet will be able or not to do so the purpose of the puppet have to be really clear.

I wonder if the “non-professional” looking of the puppets will create an effect too… or is just an insignificant aspect.