Dagger Claws
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Hello everyone,
I've been mulling over a fear of mine for a while, and I wanted to share it with the everyone in the community. I'll soon be a junior in college and I've decided to go for a BA in Fine Art and to take acting and theatre classes as well, so I can take what I learn from my art classes towards puppet building and become a better actor and performer by taking acting classes and using what I learn to shape my performance. I was even able to intern this past summer with a company in Chicago to gain more experience with puppetry and what it would be like to make puppets for theatre. I did a bit of everything from working with foam, building sets, helping with making and painting puppets, and I was even asked to work the lighting board for the entire run of the show.
What troubles me at times is self doubt and fear that I won't be as good as I want to be. This past Halloween I was asked to make and perform a short 20 minute puppet skit for some friends for their Halloween art show. I agreed to 3 shows and thought I could handle things, but I was filled with such self doubt and fear that what I would be performing wouldn't look good at all, and that things would go bad. I made an entire cast of puppets myself and this was my first show since I performed once when I was still in grade school for a local library. Maybe it was just because this was my first time performing, but, I was just so afraid of making mistakes and that things wouldn't go right at all. The show went over alright, but my other performances were canceld when the art show went belly up, so I was unable to perform for an audience. I was however able to perform the show for some puppetry friends, and they thought it was good show for my first time.
For a class of mine at school, I have to give a 10 minute presentation presented in anyway you'd like and I decided to use puppets. It's crunch time now (the presentation is Wednesday), and I went over the script yesterday and did a rough run through, and practiced today and did at least 4-5 run throughs. What I have right now is alright, but, I just don't like what I'm doing and wonder if I ever will get any better. And, along those lines, another fear creeps in and wonders "Is this such a smart idea to get into puppetry as a occupation?" I guess I'm afraid of failing and ruining a show and failing in front of an audience. Can anyone help me out? Am I the only one who has these fears for just starting out as wanting to pursue puppetry and or puppet making? And, how can you study your own work with a critcal eye and how do you evolve an eye for improving your own work with out tearing yourself apart?
Thank you all for your time,
Marc.
I've been mulling over a fear of mine for a while, and I wanted to share it with the everyone in the community. I'll soon be a junior in college and I've decided to go for a BA in Fine Art and to take acting and theatre classes as well, so I can take what I learn from my art classes towards puppet building and become a better actor and performer by taking acting classes and using what I learn to shape my performance. I was even able to intern this past summer with a company in Chicago to gain more experience with puppetry and what it would be like to make puppets for theatre. I did a bit of everything from working with foam, building sets, helping with making and painting puppets, and I was even asked to work the lighting board for the entire run of the show.
What troubles me at times is self doubt and fear that I won't be as good as I want to be. This past Halloween I was asked to make and perform a short 20 minute puppet skit for some friends for their Halloween art show. I agreed to 3 shows and thought I could handle things, but I was filled with such self doubt and fear that what I would be performing wouldn't look good at all, and that things would go bad. I made an entire cast of puppets myself and this was my first show since I performed once when I was still in grade school for a local library. Maybe it was just because this was my first time performing, but, I was just so afraid of making mistakes and that things wouldn't go right at all. The show went over alright, but my other performances were canceld when the art show went belly up, so I was unable to perform for an audience. I was however able to perform the show for some puppetry friends, and they thought it was good show for my first time.
For a class of mine at school, I have to give a 10 minute presentation presented in anyway you'd like and I decided to use puppets. It's crunch time now (the presentation is Wednesday), and I went over the script yesterday and did a rough run through, and practiced today and did at least 4-5 run throughs. What I have right now is alright, but, I just don't like what I'm doing and wonder if I ever will get any better. And, along those lines, another fear creeps in and wonders "Is this such a smart idea to get into puppetry as a occupation?" I guess I'm afraid of failing and ruining a show and failing in front of an audience. Can anyone help me out? Am I the only one who has these fears for just starting out as wanting to pursue puppetry and or puppet making? And, how can you study your own work with a critcal eye and how do you evolve an eye for improving your own work with out tearing yourself apart?
Thank you all for your time,
Marc.