Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Blog #1
Ever since I was a little girl, I grew up watching Sesame Street. Elmo was my favorite character! I was so jealous when my little brother received a Tickle-me-Elmo for his birthday, even though I was a little older and was "too cool" for sesame street, I was secretly jealous. I remember watching it every morning when I woke up and ate breakfast before school. It never occurred to me that they were not "real." It was really hard to wrap my mind around the concept of them being puppets when I was so young, because I wanted to believe that they were alive!
The film that we viewed in class was very interesting. To me, I was most intrigued by the amount of time and craftsmanship put into each puppet. The artistic eye that the puppeteers have is very impressive. It was really neat to see the process in which they were individually created. I was most impressed with the ornate detail in each puppet. I can't imagine working with that small of an object and putting so much intricate detail into each one. It was really neat to watch how the children in the film were so enthralled with each puppet. They treated them so real, which really brought back memories of my childhood, when I used to imagine that the puppets I watched in shows like Sesame Street and/or the Muppet's, etc. It was so cute to see how their little faces lit up when the puppets interacted with them.
My favorite Broadway musical is Chicago. I had the amazing privilege to see the musical in St. Paul at the Ordway. It was also my favorite movie. Although it is a very short scene, there is an amazing scene when the star of the show, Roxy is used as a puppet. I remember the first time I watched this, I had to rewind that section of the movie about five times. I did not realize that she was real, they did such a great job of making her look/act like a puppet that I then thought that this puppet seems so real, she looks like she is alive, and she was! They really did this scene in a very clever way and I still think of it whenever anyone talks about puppets.
The film that we viewed in class was very interesting. To me, I was most intrigued by the amount of time and craftsmanship put into each puppet. The artistic eye that the puppeteers have is very impressive. It was really neat to see the process in which they were individually created. I was most impressed with the ornate detail in each puppet. I can't imagine working with that small of an object and putting so much intricate detail into each one. It was really neat to watch how the children in the film were so enthralled with each puppet. They treated them so real, which really brought back memories of my childhood, when I used to imagine that the puppets I watched in shows like Sesame Street and/or the Muppet's, etc. It was so cute to see how their little faces lit up when the puppets interacted with them.
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