by lesclarke » 08 Jul 2014, 13:59
"I look forward to further responses with interest."
Here goes then...
Positive: You certainly seem to have a lot of confidence, so you have cracked that one!
Negative: ( I aim to be constructive.) Got to be blunt, your swazzling is still very poor, you have got to the early stage, but there is still a long way to go, stick with it, only time spent swazzling, and figuring out for yourself how to tune your swazzle will get you to a good standard. If you have to wrap and re-wrap your swazzle 5 times in an evening it is worth it when you finally get that unique sound! If you only have one swazzle, make another couple, if you wrap three at the same session, there is more chance of one of them working well, or responding to tuning, then at future performances you test out and use the one that's best on the day. Also getting used to having it in your mouth. Poor swazzling is very off-putting to an audience.
I still 'profess' that 'It's all about the swazzle." ...in that the swazzle is the KEY that unlocks Punch's magic.
Secondly, an obvious basic glove puppetry point, the show consists of a series of conversations between two characters, when one is speaking the other figure should not freeze, or droop their head, but remain animated.
Doing several things at once is required for a Punch show.
A final tip, Keep It Simple! Don't at this stage of your development try and 'reinvent the wheel.'
As if I haven't got enough to do today, with all I've got to do today.