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Andrew's Favourite Puppet Films
Since it was started in 2004, PuppetVision has linked to hundreds of online puppet films. These are some of the best of the best:
- Hot In Herre
- A hip-hop marionette gets jiggy with it in this music video by Thomas "Lord of the Marionette" Sontag.
- Lejo's Hand Cabaret
- Lejo is a Dutch puppeteer who creates "hand cabaret" videos for the Dutch version of Sesame Street. His "DJ" video is possibly the most widely-seen puppet video in the history of the Internet.
- Jerome Murat's Sensational Statue Act
- French Mime artist Jerome Murat's sensational "Statue Act" combines magic, puppetry and mime together a totally unique, completely stunning performance.
- Pac Man Puppet Show
- A Mexican puppeteer entertains a group of enthusiastic children with a Pac-Man puppet show in this terrific commercial for an Internet gaming service.
- Tyger
- A giant cat roams the wild streets of São Paul in Guilherme Marcondes' Tyger, an incredible film that blends puppetry and animation.
Puppetry & Podcasting
Just as the title implies, an ongoing series of articles from PuppetVision about puppetry and podcasting:
- Getting Started in Video Puppetry
- If you want to learn how to perform puppets for your own podcasts and puppet videos, these are all the resources you need to get started.
- Puppetry & Podcasting: The Basics
- What is podcasting? RSS? How do you go about doing puppet shows on the Internet? This very popular post has some of the answers.
- Quick Thoughts About Putting Video on Web Pages
- The dos and don'ts of how to properly embed video in a web page.
- How To Prevent Podfading
- Ten tricks to help prevent "podfading" - the all-too-common phenomenon of podcasts abruptly stopping or just fading away, posting fewer and fewer episodes less and less frequently.
PuppetVision YouTube Picks
A selection of the best puppet films and videos on YouTube, as featured on PuppetVision. To see the entire list visit The PuppetVision YouTube Group.
Weekend Wisdom
Occasionally on the weekend (and sometimes during the week) the blog features longer posts about the theory and technique of using puppetry in film and video:
- Upending the Tea Table
- The importance of "upending the tea table" and focusing on getting things done right.
- Puppet Staging And Composition
- A basic guide to staging and composition for puppet film and video. One of the blog's most popular posts!
- Puppet Staging: Creating Emphasis
- How to use staging and composition to create emphasis and shoot better scenes with puppets.
- Twelve questions for puppeteers
- Twelve good questions for puppeteers to ask themselves before performing a puppet in a scene.
- Why It's Important To Be Original
- Some thoughts on why it's important to be as creative and original as possible.
- Six more things for puppeteers to think about
- ...six more things to think about if you're a puppeteer and serious about improving your puppetry.
- Rules for puppet revolutionaries
- Some food for thoughts for anyone looking to be a puppetry revolutionary.
- On Heroes
- About Superman and things that you can do to make sure that your story has a great hero.
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