Puppets

This week at the Brit School, we have been making sock puppets. Not just ordinary sock puppets, though; these ones can sing along to music by being controlled by how people normally control sock puppets (opening and closing the mouth).

On the first day, we were showed the sock puppets by Matt, who had previously only done demos of these at places like concerts. We were then divided into groups and had to decide what kind of puppet we'd make, as in what genre of music it would sing to. At first we were going to do a gospel choir puppet, but later decided on reggae. We then did a mood board and chose music, and made prototype designs.

We then had a week off for work experience, and when we came back we started to make the puppets, soldered together the circuit board stuff, and make background sets. We continued this the next day, but some people also cut out parts of the boxes for the arduinos to go inside and still being able to be plugged in. We then tested them all, and gave the correct sounds to the puppets.

On the final day, each group's puppet performed a song in front of their background, and each was filmed and later edited into mini movies.

Jack

Day one of the workshop

Hello!

Thsi is our project to create in teams a Singing Sock Puppet, led by and based on Matt Brown's own Sock Puppet. We hope to show this off site as an interactive exhibit in the Autumn.

Here's the images from day one.

Students designed their character, learnt about the technical side of their puppet, identified their music, and listened to a presentation about Matt's design work.

This project continues on Monday 13th- Wednesday 15th July.