Thursday: The group is continuing to work on the puppets. There have been a few problems about the puppet's basic functions (we were going to control them from underneath, but after testing it out we decided from behind would be better), but everything should work out ok. I've been working on the set and shadow construction We decided to line the main stage with foam core. I cut a hole for the mom's kitchen window and painted the walls of the recessed kitchen yellow. Jan painted the coffee table.

The images above are for the construction of the shadow stage, which I will be building on Sunday (hopefully with the help of someone else in my group that has had experience with these things). The stage will be rectangular and about as big as the box. It needs to have poles coming out of the back at the four corners. These poles will be attached to two horizontally parallel bars. The bars will have small notches cut in them where each shadow puppet will be located. Each shadow puppet will be able to move up and down only (for our fly away scene). The will be strung through the notches and moved by rotating the clear fishing line they are attached to. Their wings will be attached to their bodies with hand made springs that will "bob" when the puppets are moved.

Things I will bring on Sunday at 1 pm: Foam Core, very thin wire, and clear fishing line.

If at least one other person will work with me on the set I believe we can get it done really quickly. We can divide the work up into shadow stage construction and actual stage construction.