Today I had the simple task of flipping a sheet over Bessie’s head. Ahahaha. Right. The illusion we were going for was that she was hanging laundry and that a sheet fell back over her, momentarily making her look like a ghost. The trouble, as always, is that I had to do this over my head. In rehearsal I managed to do it with ease, but the moment the camera came on, I kept flipping the sheet behind her or getting caught on the clothesline over our head. I finally figured out that if I asked Emily, the other assistant puppeteer, to anchor part of the sheet, that I could flip the rest of it over Bessie. Once we figured that out, we got it in one take.
I think it looked good but it was maddening getting there.
