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“Jumping Jacks, Batman!!”

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"Jumping Jacks, Batman!"

"Holy, Jumping Jacks, Batman, I'm seeing double!"

Since my last post, things have been super busy. I have had a lot of helpful comments about materials from the yahoo toy theatre forum folks. These have been a tremendous help with deciding how to make the final sets and puppets and what materials to use. If any of you have any further paper and glue suggestions etc. Please feel free to comment below.

I have finally finished my mock-up sets and puppets for “Hansel & Gretel”, which we will use to practice with while we make the finished quality sets and puppets.

We also have a date set for recording the remaining music for the show, (very exciting!). My very good musician friend has been working on that while we concentrate on everything else.

We have finished our promotional video for “Wefund” which contains a clip from the Vischmarkt Papierentheater Festival, (with kind permission). All of the necessary information has been uploaded to the Wefund site, we are merely waiting for them to make it available for public viewing. In the meanwhile, for those who can’t wait, here is the video, which is also hosted on “You tube”. The photos are of a Jumping Jack that I made earlier. We will be offering personalised versions of these (among other incentives) to those who give £20 to us through “Wefund”.

I hope you enjoy the pictures and video and will let you know as soon as the “Wefund” page is up and running!

New Liquorice House Mock Up Scene

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Sweet Old Lady?

A Sweet Old Lady?

At last I have revealed some of the images for the forthcoming Hansel & Gretel Toy Theatre show.

The fact is, I wouldn’t have bothered to do such a high quality mock-up if it were not for an interesting development. The Vischmarkt Papierentheater Festival is unpaid, and for this reason I have been attempting to attract sponsorship from Liquorice manufacturers. I have thus far been unsuccessful and time is getting short for attracting funders.

I have in fact booked our ferry tickets and our travel insurance now, and in order to at least manage to recoup these costs, we are doing something called “Wefund”. As I understand it, this basically allows anyone who’s interested to contribute to our project within a set time limit and hopefully raise a specified amount of money.

To attract interest in our project, however, you need to make a promotional video. With this in mind, I thought I’d better get some stuff together that was pretty to look at, as well as functional.

For those who are thinking “Wot no real liquorice?” fear not. There will be real liquorice on the scenery of the finished full size version.

I have completed roughly a third of my unpretty mock up puppets and I now have one pretty backdrop and a pretty puppet I can use with them as well. Tomorrow, I am definitely going to finish all of the mock up puppets and sets, no excuses.

I am deligating the video making to Tim, who is doing that tomorrow. I’m afraid I shall be expected to show my face on it at some point, (not looking forward to that!). So, watch this space for more on that soon.

Doubtless you’ll all be delighted to hear that the script is now completely finished. I have also given my music wish-list to a very good musician friend of mine so I can get on with everything else I have to do. All very exciting!

Till you get to see our marvellous video, here is a “trailer” for the Vischmarkt Festival, that someone else has made 🙂