Brian Cosgrove, Barry Purves, Merlin Crossignham and Shaune Harrison
I went to the 'Meet the Puppet Master' masterclass, hoping to get some useful information towards anthropomorphism in animation. Traditional puppets are still objects without replaceable faces or body parts, puppeteer manipulate them in order to show different emotion and feelings through various poses and body language. During the day, there were four different professional puppeteer talking about their career and mostly introducing puppetry. Some were not very useful to my research but one puppeteer had given me a vital message about anthropomorphism in object. Mr Barry Purves talked about his journey with puppet and he mentioned about the use of puppet. He claimed that puppet is a mask, audience could not see the puppeteers behind so it is physically hiding the artists. However, it is actually revealing, puppet reveals more than covering. Purves said having a media allow more sincere expression, for example people tend to type more aggressive things on internet instead of talking face to face because the social network act as a mask, hiding their identity but allows them to reveal their true feelings more comfortable. It is true that every move of the puppet is a thought of the artist. Many use of object in live action film is to let it 'speak' for the actor interacting with it for example in Castaway, wilson the volleyball is symbolising the loneliness and the urge for company of Tom Hanks; the talking parrot umbrella speaks Mary Poppins' mind and many more. Even though some of them are not animated, they still about to create empathy from audience because of the connection between different characters and the needs of it. When emotion is projected onto the object, it is difficult to not feel for it, when there is a story behind, it is unable to forgot.
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