PUPPET FUN

     


    Hi guys! Long time no see! Well, only a couple of days, BUT STILL! I want to dedicate this post to the beautiful puppet which Daniel has created for our film. 

     Our protagonist Jasmin has a strong interest in creating stop motion animated films, and has created this doll with her best friend John who has shared this interest with her since childhood. There is one particular doll, the one shown below, which is very meaningful to her, as it is the first puppet that she and John made together (and it is pretty amazing for just the work of a couple of ambitious kids).
                                          

    The doll itself represents Jasmin's friendship with John, and who Jasmin was/is as a person with him- who she became with John in her life. This leads me to finally talk about the structure of our introduction. 

       The first scene of the introduction is of Jasmin in a dark room interrogating the doll, yelling at her, and then killing her with a gun. However this is all metaphorical, and only in Jasmin's imagination. This scene comes from a later scene from further in the actual film. Then there a graphic match of the barrel of the gun to the lens of a DSLR which Jasmin is working with on a claymation set. This is the next scene, where Jasmin is working on her set with the same doll from the gun scene, until her mom calls her that her friend John is downstairs. 

     The puppet is an essential part of the film and an essential part of who Jasmin is as a character. Daniel spent around 12 hours making her! He started off making a wire base, and then covering her torso/legs and head with air dry clay. Her hair was made with black yarn, and her chest/arms area was covered with yellow fabric. Yellow is a very important color within our film, and I'll talk more about the color psychology I used within this film soon.

Until next post!

Nicole Abuid