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Hi everyone, as you probably already know in these difficult times I have been trying to bring a new revenue stream into our Rough Magic Theatre pot by monetising my blog. I created certain content that was subscriber only and which could be viewed by people willing to contribute a regular monthly amount.

I have been finding that it is an awful lot of extra work creating 2 separate lots of content so this is taking away precious time from actually being able to get on with our latest project “The Secret Keeper”. In addition to this I am going to fess up now that I have not had a single subscriber so far.

So as the subscription system doesn’t seem to be working, I am going to try offering all of the content to everyone for free but include a donations button so that anyone who would like to contribute towards the making of the show can do so. I am leaving all payment options open so people can choose a suggested one off payment amount or put in an amount of their choosing. People can also choose to contribute regularly if they wish with a monthly or annual payment.

If you go back through the posts for “The Secret Keeper” that I already created you should now be able to access all of the previously “subscriber only” content for free. See the list below to click through and see the content you have missed:

Behind the Scenes with the Secret Keeper

More Behind the Scenes with the Secret Keeper

More Explosions

Experiments in the Puppet Closet

Writing “The Secret Keeper” – Part 2

Making the Prime Minister

Creating the “Face-On” Prime Minister Puppet

If you enjoy it, I would appreciate a donation of whatever you feel you can afford. If you can’t afford anything, that’s fine but if you can,…

Many thanks everybody and please share this post with your friends.

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I was surprised at how easily I managed to transform the in-profile existing puppet and images into a face-on image for the “hero-face” puppet. The bit that took the longest was getting the proportions and angle of the top hat right. I was using black card (new recycled, rather than re-used) with the image I drew glued on top this time. Cutting out all of the pinstripe patterns with a scalpel blade on the previous puppet was a big pain in the bum and made me wonder if I would get on faster if I could punch out the patterns using traditional Indonesian shadow puppet making punches. I have started looking into this but as they are not designed for use with card they would blunt very quickly and sharpening them might end up just as time consuming as doing it this way.