Script

Documentary Script 

 

*Muppet snippet intro*

 

*Panning of puppet rack* - picks up the puppet at the end of the rack while the title credit comes up on the screen

  

Sipped of interview 

 

“the thing I just about puppets is how, if you reach the right person, you can transform their life and inspire them to do anything. Words speak so much louder when they come out of a puppet and children trust them more too Puppets I grew up with watching like Kermit and the great gonzo taught me that I can be whoever I want to be and even though I feel like I’m different and might not fit in sometimes that that’s fine and I can be whoever I want to be. Who else do you know that says when I’m older I want to be a puppeteer (haha)”   

 

“I suppose I’ve never really grown up (laughs) I just want to be a child for… *pause for comedic purposes* forever”

 

Silent clip of myself Sitting down at my puppet making table as the voice-over/interview begins. 

 

“I first became interested in puppets when I was 4??? I saw a puppet/Punch and Judy show in a park a few minutes from my house and I was completely locked in on what I was watching and I turned to my parents and said… (Points to camera) I want to do that when I grow up” 

 

“When I became interested in puppets, I would watch anything to do with puppets on YouTube, tv, and we had an old VHS video player.”

 

(cutaway to pushing in a muppet video in an old video player)

 

“And that was when I discovered the muppets”

 

(Cutaway to the muppet segment. Maybe my Kermit replica I made on my puppet rack)

 

“It was magical. I’d seen punch and Judy, string puppet type marionette shows rod puppets”

 

But this was different. The way the puppets were manipulated and the way they were created. It absolutely blew me away and I have worn out that video. (haha laughs)

 

Jim Henson… he was the one who created the muppets and after this, I was watching everything that he had created. Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, the dark crystal, etc. I was obsessed

 

 

I'd been making puppets since I was first interested but I really started when I was around 14 when I really was desperate for a nice puppet but they are expensive to buy if you want something half decent so I bought some cheap fleece material and downloaded a pattern of the internet and built my first ever full puppet. (LOL back then I thought this was so good) 

And that was my puppet making obsession started. 

*PARENTS INTERVIEW*

 

Mildly scripted but just on the topics to cover.  Mainly improv 

 

Pan across a table of old newspaper clippings and photos of my journey as a puppeteer