Budget for a Puppet Event Proposal I want to create a puppet making workshop for adults. The workshop will be based around the idea of junk marionettes. The workshop will last around 7 hours with an hour break during which lunch will be served. [First 30minutes] Participants will be invited to select two or three items from a chest that they engage creatively with, taking into account particular elements of the human form (Would this lightbulb create an interesting head?) [Next 30 minutes] When objects and their purposes have been decided upon, participants will draw (to scale) front and side views of their puppets. The objects they have chosen will be incorporated into a design and they will be encouraged to expand on the aesthetic they have begun filling in elements they lack. Eg. Drawing in hands and arms, a head design or feet. There will also be a selection of pre-made generic torsos, arm sections with joints, leg sections with joints and pelvises. [1hour and 30 minutes] Super Sculpy will be dived between the adults and they will be helped to realise their designs by sculpting. I, as the workshop leader, will help them transfer their two dimensional images into realised, three dimensional elements for their puppets.
Lunch [30 minutes] (Their sculpted elements will be fired as lunch is served.) [30 minutes] I will give a demonstration of puppet joints and how to create them, these puppets will likely have simple sting necks although for wrist, elbow and knee joints I will probably incorporate ideas gathered from John Robert’s workshop, using leather, dowel and string. I will have prepared a range of body parts and their respective joint pieces that the participants will be able to select, simply construct and then decorate with various materials. [1 hour] Participants will lay their objects and made items over their initial design and think about what they now need to create a finished puppet. They will select arm, leg and torso pieces as necessary and assemble the pre-prepared joints. [1 hour] Entire puppet bodies with working joints will be assembled by the group. I will assist and problem solve at this stage. [1 hour] The puppets will be painted and decorated by the group with screw eyes added in strategic places ready for stringing.