How does one "puppeteer"?

[MeepBorkMeep]

I bring my puppets to the kids I babysit for. They didn't like the first two because, according to them, they didn't "Cooperate nicely". So they were basically fired. But then I brought in my cowgirl puppet, Dolly, and they're absolutely in love with her. You know that thing the Muppeteers keep saying about how kids never look at the puppeteer and all they see is the puppet? So true. But I digress.

That's what I do to practice. Well, that and turn the mirror toward my bed and have it lip synch till midnight.

 

[Smoogle]

Thanks everyone!

This place is like Sesame Street everyone is so nice and helpful. everyone should come together and form some kind of huge project.

All of you have given me great advice and I'll continue to practice as much as possible, I'll also visit those sites some of you suggested.

I've done plenty of browsing my self and i've seen all forms of puppets being displayed/performed online - From Whack Jack, to plenty of stuff that has been posted on here there seems to be infinite supplies of puppet shows that are great, heck sometimes i just browse on youtube and look at all the puppet stuff they have on there.

I hope when me and my partner are finished our show and post it up you all enjoy it.

 

[Smoogle]

I was wondering when filming do some of you use the recorded voices from the camcorder or do you add it in later with some sort of program - how would you sync that in correctly?

 

[MeepBorkMeep]

I'm not professional with this topic, but what I usually do is use a boom or the voices from the camcorder, as long as they're clear. If I am doing lip synching, though, I let my laptop play the song while I perform so it can be heard softly on the camcorder, then I put it the finished performance on iMovie, put the song in again until it synchs with the recorded camcorder song, then delete the sound from the video and just use the audio track. Ga, I didn't explain that well. But if you /can/ understand my gibberish, that's my amateur two cents.

 

[froggiegirl18]

Being a com. major I understood you fine. That would work.

Give it go Smoogle.