Taiwanese puppets fighting… puppeteers revealed
Following up the last post Smoke, Flames, Taiwanese Puppets Live!, here’s a video footage where the puppeteers came out from hiding behind set pieces and showed the crowd how they were operating the puppets.
In the video, you get to see how big the TV puppets are in comparison to the puppeteers. You can see that each puppet is puppeteered by one puppeteer (what an awkward sentence). The legs are often covered up by clothing so the puppeteers usually only focus on the head, arms, and the body movement overall, except when the focus is on walking or kicking. A puppeteer would use his right hand to control the puppet’s head and right arm, and his left hand to control the puppet’s left arm. Due to this mechanism, the puppet’s left arm is a lot more flexible than the right arm in terms of movement. So you often see the weapons in the left hand, as demonstrated in this video.
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I so could not do that. Too much right/left stuff. I have a hard time telling them apart, literally.
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When you do TV puppetry, you often have a monitor on the floor showing you what the camera is really capturing. These are the images that actually go into the camera, so it’s not like a mirror. So when you move to the left, you see on the monitor yourself moving to the right. Now that’s even more confusion!