We were watching some videos this week, and we were reminded of a very important detail. We have covered this a couple of years ago, but it is time for a quick refresher.
As we watched a couple of these videos, we saw the puppets looking off into the distance to locations known only to the Almighty. The puppet had no focus on his/her audience. What the ventriloquist did not have was the ability to know where his puppet was looking.
Here is the quick solution.
Put your puppet on your hand and take close notice of exactly where his nose is pointing. Now look at where his/her eyes are looking. You will see that where the nose is pointing, that is where the eyes are looking as well.
If your puppets nose is used as a reference guide, you will always know where his/her eyes are pointing and the perception will be complete that he/she is conversing with the folks in the audience.
Practice this for a few minutes and you will see that your audience will think the puppet is “real”.
That is all for this week. We will talk again real soon.
Steve and JET
Excellent reminder!
I sometimes forget, but I’m getting better at it. I also have the puppet look at different parts of the audience, so that he appears to be addressing the entire group.
-JL