Types of Puppets
This puppet is controlled by your hand inside the puppet.
What is a hand Puppet?
Making movements bigger so the audience can clearly understand emotion.
What is exaggeration?
Moving the puppet smoothly and with intention.
What is Control?
This famous American creator helped popularize modern television puppetry with characters like Kermit the Frog.
Who is Jim Henson?
A puppet talks but never moves its body. What should be improved?
What is adding movement and reactions?
This puppet is made from a sock and often uses simple materials.
What is a sock Puppet?
Reacting at the correct moment after thinking about what happens.
What is timing?
When a puppet clearly shows emotion through body movement.
What is characterization?
This style of puppetry often uses humor, television, and character-driven storytelling (like Sesame Street).
What is modern television puppetry?
A puppet reacts instantly with no pause. What skill is missing?
What is Timing?
This Puppet is shown on a scrim with projections of silhouettes.
What is a shadow puppet?
the intentional direction of a puppet’s gaze and body to show what it is thinking
What is focus?
When a puppet listens by reacting instead of freezing completely.
What is active listening?
Shadow puppetry is strongly associated with storytelling traditions in this part of the world.
What is Asia?
A puppet moves constantly with no purpose. What should be fixed?
What is control and intentional movement?
This puppet type is controlled by strings from above, and used to manipulate at greater skill.
What is a Marionette?
Keeping the puppet active and responsive even when not speaking.
What is Staying Alive?
When the puppets mouth is moving at the precise time the puppeteer is speaking or singing
What is lip sync?
Bunraku is a type of puppetry that uses 3 puppeteers, and comes from this country.
What is Japan?
A puppet performs well but the audience is confused about emotion. What is missing?
What is exaggeration and clarity?