To kind of shake things up a little, I thought I’d explain what these things mean this time.
Things said at work.
- I need to get his head in my lap.
- Will it be faster if we just take her arms off?
- What kind of head do you want?
- Our director said, “I need more red in the blue zone.”
- Will you put the car on top of him?
- I’m already looking under my own armpit.
- He’s twitching. Is that normal?
- Another puppeteer said, “The problem with going up his ass is where to put my head.”
- I’ve done better balls than that.
- “Head, head, head! Come on, squirt it. Now give me a good cherry.”
What things really mean.
- In this shot I was doing live hands for a character and we were working on the floor. The only comfortable position was if the lead puppeteer used me as a cushion, but because we were between two set pieces it took a bit of wedging to get into place…that explanation doesn’t really improve things, does it?
- We needed to change a puppet’s clothes, and the arms velcro in place. Because the puppet had rods in his hands, it looked like it would be easier to unvelcro.
- The puppets have two types of head, one where the puppeteer enters through the neck and one where they enter through the back of the head.
- I work there and I have no idea what this meant.
- If a puppet is in a car, it means there’s a puppeteer under the car.
- Frequently while performing with live hands, the only way to keep my head out of shot is to bend it as far forward and down as possible. With my hands over my head, this means that the easiest place to see a monitor is if it’s positioned so I am looking under my own arm.
- There was a remote control puppet on set. Sometimes radio signals will override the control and cause a puppet to twitch.
- The discussion was about a puppet sitting down on a bench, which means it would have legs and a seat, where the puppet normally truncates at the waist. So the puppeteer could get his hand inside the puppet but then his head would appear to be chopped off and on the bench next to him.
- I was throwing balls, and it went wrong in a take. The ones before had been better.
- This is what happens when puppets make cakes.
