Masks clearly a world of fantastic atmospheres and indescriptible sensations but really what are masks. Are they just tools, elements even "things" or are they just something you use.
Re small masks also masks?
Is anything that cover your face a mask?
or that is just what we say it is.
Masks are a great theme to describe and i really enjoy talking about them because they are so brad that giving an answer to these questions is almost mposible.
One would say it only depends on what the person thinks they are and then if we are all different then masks could be anything, there is the beauty of arts, it has a lot of meanings which might contradict each other but still work.
Masks to me are elements which have organic features and you can use in your face as a covering to give you a new character. It also hides your real you and by the same means help you to show who you really are.
Masks are not always fisical either, there are also psicologycal masks such as the reputation you create to yourself and how others look at you also is a masks.
In conclusion masks are so big or so small and have so many different aspects that even if you want to cover with one it aenables you to be some one else but at the same time being who you really are. Come on i mean how am i suppose to descibe one if there is no real meaning just a lot of them.
Then i relsaized that the only way of explaining yourself is by doing and if noone understands is just that they have a diferent view of thing.
domingo, 29 de abril de 2012
lunes, 23 de abril de 2012
Why Puppets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Puppets in the play are the basis of the idea that we were developing for this years play. Puppets are not an easy thing to do and even if people say the contrary, not every one can actually do them, it is needed a lot of hard work and also high concentration levels (precisely not my strengths) which means im not the perfect person to do thembut still i have to help because if not the play would be a disaster. In our first weeks we were completely sure that we were doing the right thing, now we are saying, why roberto why? puppets!!! NO!!!
It is simply because we are not having enough help and when we had it we did a lot of mess because many people weren't taking it as serious as it really is. It is a peace of fine art what we are trying to create and this is what makes it difficult. If we are to finish and not just for the sake of finishing but doing it well we will need a lot of hard non stop work as we have been doing during these past week in not only the doing but the making of all the parts that conform puppet making.
And then after this we have to animate them which is a copmpletely different work and for now we havent even seen a single scene so we are in the 80% puppets make.
20% masks
30% scenes
We are to belive that this is a tough job but if we all work together we will make it.
It is simply because we are not having enough help and when we had it we did a lot of mess because many people weren't taking it as serious as it really is. It is a peace of fine art what we are trying to create and this is what makes it difficult. If we are to finish and not just for the sake of finishing but doing it well we will need a lot of hard non stop work as we have been doing during these past week in not only the doing but the making of all the parts that conform puppet making.
And then after this we have to animate them which is a copmpletely different work and for now we havent even seen a single scene so we are in the 80% puppets make.
20% masks
30% scenes
We are to belive that this is a tough job but if we all work together we will make it.
domingo, 15 de abril de 2012
Mercado Central
Have you ever felt that you work very hard and then when you are about to accomplish what you are seeking this simply dissapears.
This saturday i left the school at 1130 in the morning and finally understanded that doing a play or better producing a play which is even harder. The real thing is that it is not only the aspect of writting, creative things or even chasing your exact specifications but alsoworking so hard (walk for 3 hours) for then not even buying one thing but only doing this to get prices.
It is not something bad because this is something you have to do for not getting ripped of by the pressure of time.
The simple reason is that the harder you work it is more difficult to think that you are finished because there is something else to do every day at every time.
Some people would say that if you go somewhere for nothing is time lost of your life. It is like when you go to the pool but you dont swim because you might get a cold or other complications.
Simply if you want good results you need to work hard no matter if you think it is for nothing or for a useless thing but just for the sake of having the best experience to then apply it to the best possibl results abaliable.
This saturday i left the school at 1130 in the morning and finally understanded that doing a play or better producing a play which is even harder. The real thing is that it is not only the aspect of writting, creative things or even chasing your exact specifications but alsoworking so hard (walk for 3 hours) for then not even buying one thing but only doing this to get prices.
It is not something bad because this is something you have to do for not getting ripped of by the pressure of time.
The simple reason is that the harder you work it is more difficult to think that you are finished because there is something else to do every day at every time.
Some people would say that if you go somewhere for nothing is time lost of your life. It is like when you go to the pool but you dont swim because you might get a cold or other complications.
Simply if you want good results you need to work hard no matter if you think it is for nothing or for a useless thing but just for the sake of having the best experience to then apply it to the best possibl results abaliable.
domingo, 8 de abril de 2012
Short week
This week we had a very spected short week which gave us lots of reflection and peace time to get back to the usual hard work.
Still on monday we had the last day of our puppets work shop which ended with the most important part of the whole thing.......... HOW TO ANIMATE, yes as you read it. they showed us how to do the actual thing that for me at the star was, at least in my head a very easy thing to do, but as the afternoon went on it seemed much more difficult than what i thought and i really mean it much much more difficult.
SO....I liked it, it was very intresting, good and a very important thing to do.
Still we went into the part i liked the most which i thought was the most interestin part and what simbolizes the whole idea of this blog the EYES......
Yes, if you are to control or as they call it animate the puppet we have to focus in the eyes the fhrase is, "Yo are to look through the puppet to animate it well".
All the concentration comes from the focus and the focus in animation is in the eyes, when you are to master the art of animating you are going to seem to be one with your puppet, the puppet wont only look as a toll but as an extension of your body, something that feels like you feel and is connected to your brain were you canalyse what you want and shows what you want to show. It is like when you work with your pencil, it thinks what you think but also does the action, though it is not something else that works for itself.
In the same way when you look throught the puppet you are connecting with it and it is only broken when you stop looking.
Still on monday we had the last day of our puppets work shop which ended with the most important part of the whole thing.......... HOW TO ANIMATE, yes as you read it. they showed us how to do the actual thing that for me at the star was, at least in my head a very easy thing to do, but as the afternoon went on it seemed much more difficult than what i thought and i really mean it much much more difficult.
SO....I liked it, it was very intresting, good and a very important thing to do.
Still we went into the part i liked the most which i thought was the most interestin part and what simbolizes the whole idea of this blog the EYES......
Yes, if you are to control or as they call it animate the puppet we have to focus in the eyes the fhrase is, "Yo are to look through the puppet to animate it well".
All the concentration comes from the focus and the focus in animation is in the eyes, when you are to master the art of animating you are going to seem to be one with your puppet, the puppet wont only look as a toll but as an extension of your body, something that feels like you feel and is connected to your brain were you canalyse what you want and shows what you want to show. It is like when you work with your pencil, it thinks what you think but also does the action, though it is not something else that works for itself.
In the same way when you look throught the puppet you are connecting with it and it is only broken when you stop looking.
lunes, 2 de abril de 2012
Just do it
How to do a pupprt?
Can any one do it?
This were some of the questions i did myself in this week theatre course were we learned that any one (even me) can do a puppet.
Im not kiding we were actually tought to do puppets. From the making and from the bare start.
Time for another recipe:
Step 1:
To start with what every recipe must have is the best ingredients so first we need to have the best materials. in this time we used foam which to Martin (the master of puppets) is the best way to start modelling.
We used this a a basic material, first drawing a normal shape to give your puppet a face shape and then we were to cut with leads to my second step.
Step 2:
You need to have the right tools to have a great dish, so then the best tools or the ones needed at least are to be used. This are cutter, x cissors and a piquetera which is used to give the details and final touches to the master piece.
Step 3:
Then, after doing the first part of the recipe we get to the actual making. We are supposed to give this shape that we have done a more human screen which means we need to deform the shape to give it a more round way and finally after all this we are to give it some movement and some trails.
Step 4:
External parts of the puppet which are the ears and nose are to be done in a special way, they can be done as in a human way or as unrealistic as it can be. This is basically how to make a nose and ear that also helps to create the personalitie of the puppet.
Can any one do it?
This were some of the questions i did myself in this week theatre course were we learned that any one (even me) can do a puppet.
Im not kiding we were actually tought to do puppets. From the making and from the bare start.
Time for another recipe:
Step 1:
To start with what every recipe must have is the best ingredients so first we need to have the best materials. in this time we used foam which to Martin (the master of puppets) is the best way to start modelling.
We used this a a basic material, first drawing a normal shape to give your puppet a face shape and then we were to cut with leads to my second step.
Step 2:
You need to have the right tools to have a great dish, so then the best tools or the ones needed at least are to be used. This are cutter, x cissors and a piquetera which is used to give the details and final touches to the master piece.
Step 3:
Then, after doing the first part of the recipe we get to the actual making. We are supposed to give this shape that we have done a more human screen which means we need to deform the shape to give it a more round way and finally after all this we are to give it some movement and some trails.
Step 4:
External parts of the puppet which are the ears and nose are to be done in a special way, they can be done as in a human way or as unrealistic as it can be. This is basically how to make a nose and ear that also helps to create the personalitie of the puppet.
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