Assistant Puppet Makers (APM) assist the design, manufacture (making) and efficiency of puppets for theatre, movie, TV, carnival, animation, utilized puppetry and out of doors arts. They could work for a single Senior Puppet Maker or as a part of a wider technical and efficiency workforce led by a Inventive Director. They’re liable for contributing to the care of their puppets, together with how they’re dealt with, saved, transported and used throughout a efficiency/manufacturing. They need to know how you can undertake fundamental repairs to puppets and select applicable supplies for manufacture to help their preservation.
APMs should know how you can design fundamental puppets appropriate to the efficiency/manufacturing utilizing applicable technical drawing strategies, and should be capable to manufacture puppets to their very own or others’ designs, deciding on probably the most appropriate supplies for the circumstances the puppet shall be utilized in, for instance: climate tolerant if used for out of doors performances, of sturdy construction if used for immersive/viewers interactive performances, or immune to warmth and light-weight harm if utilized in shut proximity to theatre lighting. APMs should perceive one of the best software and certain lifespan of various supplies and be assured making puppets from a spread of supplies equivalent to paper, wooden, papier mache, foam, wire, metallic, rubber, acrylic and tender supplies. They need to perceive the required motion of puppets relying on the efficiency, and apply design and construct strategies to make sure mentioned necessities could be met. This will likely embrace the applying and use of conventional strings, robotics or digital programming.
APMs have to be assured within the use and upkeep of hand and machine instruments and supplies related to their puppetry setting(s) equivalent to these outlined above. They need to meet minimal Well being and Security necessities related to puppet making, together with how you can preserve oneself and workforce members protected, in keeping with firm insurance policies.
Alongside the design and manufacture of puppets, APMs should even have consciousness of the efficiency of puppets for dwell and recorded productions, and as such should have information of inventive efficiency ideas to make sure puppets could be animated in keeping with efficiency scripts.
Stage 3 and above apprenticeships Apprentices with out stage 2 English and maths might want to obtain this stage previous to taking the Finish-Level Evaluation. For these with an schooling, well being and care plan or a legacy assertion, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimal requirement is Entry Stage 3. A British Signal Language (BSL) qualification is an alternative choice to the English qualification for these whose main language is BSL.
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K1: Perceive the historical past of puppet making and efficiency together with the contexts and cultures inside which they’ve been used and the way audiences interact and empathise with puppets, together with the several types of puppet used by the ages equivalent to string puppets, glove puppets, shadow puppets and muppet-style puppets
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K2: Have consciousness of the kinds and scales of organisation that fee, use and/or apply puppetry
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K3: Know how you can function as a contract puppet maker which can embrace venture administration, utilising on-line platforms, networking
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K4: nderstand the prices related to totally different supplies, the place they’re sourced from and the way these are chosen to satisfy price range necessities
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K5: Perceive how you can minimise waste when utilizing supplies to adjust to the organisation’s sustainability coverage
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K6: Know which supplies to make use of applicable to the character, goal and frequency of the puppet’s use equivalent to paper, wooden, papier mache, foam, wire, metallic, rubber, acrylic and tender supplies
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K7: Perceive the significance of and variation in protecting instances for the protected storage and transport of various puppets earlier than, throughout and after a efficiency and the way these ought to stop water harm, rodent and bug harm, environmental harm, and unintentional harm throughout transport
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K8: Perceive fundamental anatomy and bio-mechanics equivalent to skeletal construction, muscle groups, and tendons in people and wildlife and the way this influences a puppet’s motion
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K9: Perceive the usage of joints and mechanisms applicable to a puppet’s deliberate utilization/goal
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K10: Perceive probably the most applicable design methodology(s)to make use of to finest reply to the design transient which can embrace technical illustration, CAD and/or Digital Actuality design
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K11: Perceive fundamental well being and security necessities related to the environments inside which puppets are used equivalent to out of doors settings, movie and TV units, Theatres and different indoor venues, which can embrace fundamental viewers and employees security and safety, noise laws, working at top, fundamental electrics and dealing with workshop gear
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K12: derstanding in a spread of fundamental restore and restoration strategies that may assist delay the lifetime of a puppet related to totally different supplies e.g. wooden, metallic, acrylic
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K13: Know how you can safely and appropriately transfer and retailer puppets, related to their kind, to minimise common put on and tear or long-term harm to them
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K14: Perceive the efficiency strategies and circumstances related to dwell or recorded productions, equivalent to performing in entrance of a inexperienced display screen, voice-overs, CGI, or hidden puppeteers
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Abilities
S1: Construct joints and mechanisms appropriate for the kind of puppetry and efficiency atmosphere which can embrace leather-based hinge joints, picket pin joints and plastic pipe joints
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S2: Exhibit the essential mechanics of puppetry equivalent to the connection/separation between puppeteer and puppet, focus, response, use of breath and expression to offer life to an inanimate object
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S3: Present how you can maintain and animate a puppet primarily based on its kind, equivalent to rod, desk prime, bunraku, glove, shadow, muppet-style, massive scale, and digital to make sure it’s appropriate for its supposed goal and atmosphere
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S4: Choose and use probably the most applicable supplies for development equivalent to paper, wooden, papier mache, foam, wire, metallic, rubber, acrylic and/or tender supplies for the puppet’s desired use, weight, stability and desired longevity
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S5: Undertake development strategies equivalent to carving, foam patterning, mould casting, tender sculpture, seam-stressing, metalwork, assemblage, massive scale development, animatronics, paints and finishes, appropriate to the kind of puppetry.
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S6: Apply related mechanics equivalent to push pull cable and rod mechanisms, fundamental digital robotics, hydraulics, appropriate to the kind of puppetry
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S7: Use and keep hand and machine instruments applicable to the kind of puppet making, which can embrace pillar drills, hand drills, belt sanders, bandsaws, glue and air warmth instruments, hammers, pliers, grips and vices, knives and scalpels, information and abrasives, spanners, chisels, stitching machines
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S8: Make costumes for puppets utilizing applicable strategies that enable for needed motion and face up to the frequency and environments inside which the puppets are used, which can embrace costumes in material, plastic or hand painted apparel instantly utilized to the puppet
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S9: Modify a puppet’s construct to answer design and/or environmental adjustments, equivalent to adjustments in climate circumstances, indoor lighting and warmth, or a puppeteer’s measurement, utilizing instruments and supplies which might be applicable to the kind of puppetry
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S10: Work to agreed briefs and/or designs by creating correct technical drawings of puppets utilizing graphic illustration strategies which might be to scale, which can embrace the usage of CAD design software program such a Rhino of Fusion 360
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S11: Construct applicable maquette and/or prototypes in keeping with the agreed venture timeline to evaluate the puppet’s suitability for the supposed efficiency/atmosphere
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S12: Choose and use probably the most applicable Private Protecting Gear (PPE)
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S13: Adjust to Well being and security laws together with IOSH and COSHH
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S14: Apply related H&S concerns to a puppet’s construct to stop harm and support protected, snug and environment friendly manipulation of the puppet by the puppeteer
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S15: Choose and use needed constructing and ending strategies and supplies to make sure the puppet’s applicable resistance to break brought on by totally different circumstances equivalent to climate, warmth and light-weight, efficiency put on and tear, viewers interplay and pest corrosion
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S16: Construct fundamental storage instances utilizing supplies equivalent to wooden, plastic or metallic, to help puppet preservation earlier than, throughout and after performances to scale back harm/corrosion, together with throughout transit.
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S17: Confidently work alongside and assist others as a part of a venture or everlasting workforce to make sure the profitable completion of a quick
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S18: Clearly current concepts and strategies to help the design and development of puppets
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S19: Keep centered on the duty at hand to fulfil duties inside agreed timeframes
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S20: Organise workload successfully to make sure time is used correctly and duties are accomplished in agreed precedence order
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Behaviours
B1: Be pro-active about studying new strategies, methods of working and bettering private information
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B2: Work with colleagues to hassle shoot in a methodical means
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B3: Reply constructively and maturely when issues don’t go as deliberate
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B4: Stay calm below stress
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B5: Take and reply to instruction
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B6: Search options to issues and takes recommendation from these with related experience
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B7: Pleasant and approachable always and open to sharing studying
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