Thank you for sharing this, Gia! We realized after filming this "making of" that we didn't figure in the time it took to storyboard it... It was definitely a fast and furious 20 hours! :D
Vielen Dank für diese tollen Videos! Letzte Woche entdeckte ich euren "Morning Call" und war total begeistert davon, da ich gerade ein Papiertheater entwerfe und bastel. Heute entdeckte ich euer "Erklär-Video" dazu und bin noch viel begeisterter von euch! Ihr habt einen so faszinierenden Film entworfen und dann auch noch einen Blick in eure Werkstatt gewährt! 1000 Dank dafür!!!! Stephan aus Berlin, von den Anonymen Ukulelikern!
Thanks so much for both of these "Morning Call" videos! I'd decided over the summer I was going to virtually pair my upper level tech (designing) and acting students (writing/performing/filming) on a semester-long toy theatre film project, not knowing that your work would become the basis of our instruction and modeling! We all love it!
That's awesome, Rod! We're so honored to have influenced the curriculum! If it's okay with the students we would LOVE to see their final projects. Toy Theatre is such a perfect medium to be exploring during this time. Give our applause to your students and tell them to keep up the good work!
Thank you for sharing this, Joseph! Making short puppet films/toy theater is a great way for artists to create during this time. We look forward to hearing about how your students might apply some of these ideas!
Excellent work!! congratulation to both!! I just have a question what are the different levels of writing puppet story-Storyframe, storyboard, sequential, scenes, scripting.... Hope you answer it.
Thanks so much! The steps vary a bit depending on what the project is, but here's a pretty standard structure: 1) Coming up with the core idea of the story. This should be as short and essentialized as possible. For "Morning Call" this might be something like, "A morning routine goes wrong." Then as you're writing the rest of the story you can always check back in with this idea and ask yourself if every step supports that idea. 2) Write outline of the story. These can just be bullet points of actions. 3) Decide what the best style of puppetry is for your story. This will depend on what happens in the story, what your characters need to do, etc. 4) Sketch characters, sketch sets, decide on a unified look for the show. 5) Storyboard story. Draw out specific shots to determine what you need to physically build, and get a list of angles that you're shooting from. 6) Build puppets, sets, props, etc. 7) Test puppets in camera. Lots of times a puppet will move differently in camera than you imagined. You can either change the puppet to move how you originally planned, or embrace the happenstance and alter the script to support this natural movement! 8) Film shots, edit, etc. This is simplified description of everything, but those are the main benchmarks. Hope this helps!
This was fabulous! I'm beyond impressed this took on 20 hours. Lovely film, lovely people!
Thank you for sharing this, Gia! We realized after filming this "making of" that we didn't figure in the time it took to storyboard it... It was definitely a fast and furious 20 hours! :D
I'm using this video to help me with a segment of my short film for community college- you guys are awesome!
That's awesome! Thanks for letting us know. If your short film gets uploaded publicly make sure to drop us a link so we can check it out :D
Vielen Dank für diese tollen Videos! Letzte Woche entdeckte ich euren "Morning Call" und war total begeistert davon, da ich gerade ein Papiertheater entwerfe und bastel. Heute entdeckte ich euer "Erklär-Video" dazu und bin noch viel begeisterter von euch! Ihr habt einen so faszinierenden Film entworfen und dann auch noch einen Blick in eure Werkstatt gewährt! 1000 Dank dafür!!!!
Stephan aus Berlin, von den Anonymen Ukulelikern!
This is great stuff. The look and feel of the film is almost as affecting as watching real actors. This is inspiring in its simplicity.
Thanks so much! We love puppetry for exactly that reason. :D
Rainbow at the end...lol...brilliant!! And what a great video/tutorial. Very inspiring...thank you!
Thanks so much! Haha, we had a lot of fun making it :)
Thanks so much for both of these "Morning Call" videos! I'd decided over the summer I was going to virtually pair my upper level tech (designing) and acting students (writing/performing/filming) on a semester-long toy theatre film project, not knowing that your work would become the basis of our instruction and modeling! We all love it!
That's awesome, Rod! We're so honored to have influenced the curriculum! If it's okay with the students we would LOVE to see their final projects. Toy Theatre is such a perfect medium to be exploring during this time. Give our applause to your students and tell them to keep up the good work!
Very informative. thanks for sharing your knowledge
You two are so talented 🙌 Thank you for this amazingly comprehensive and efficient tutorial. Your work is beautiful 🙌💖💖 So glad I found your channel.
Thank you so much for the kind words! We hope it's helpful and we get to see some puppet films from you someday!
🙏🏽 thank you
You're welcome!
I just stumbled upon this looking for things to do with my theater classes. Well done and the actual video was funny :-) thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you for sharing this, Joseph! Making short puppet films/toy theater is a great way for artists to create during this time. We look forward to hearing about how your students might apply some of these ideas!
Fun!
Thanks!
Excellent work!! congratulation to both!!
I just have a question what are the different levels of writing puppet story-Storyframe, storyboard, sequential, scenes, scripting....
Hope you answer it.
Thanks so much!
The steps vary a bit depending on what the project is, but here's a pretty standard structure:
1) Coming up with the core idea of the story. This should be as short and essentialized as possible. For "Morning Call" this might be something like, "A morning routine goes wrong." Then as you're writing the rest of the story you can always check back in with this idea and ask yourself if every step supports that idea.
2) Write outline of the story. These can just be bullet points of actions.
3) Decide what the best style of puppetry is for your story. This will depend on what happens in the story, what your characters need to do, etc.
4) Sketch characters, sketch sets, decide on a unified look for the show.
5) Storyboard story. Draw out specific shots to determine what you need to physically build, and get a list of angles that you're shooting from.
6) Build puppets, sets, props, etc.
7) Test puppets in camera. Lots of times a puppet will move differently in camera than you imagined. You can either change the puppet to move how you originally planned, or embrace the happenstance and alter the script to support this natural movement!
8) Film shots, edit, etc.
This is simplified description of everything, but those are the main benchmarks. Hope this helps!
You two are awesome!
Hey, thanks!
So good!
Thank you, Dustin! :D
Bravo!
Thank you!!
great tips
Thanks!