To create my net based puppet I began by slotting two oval pieces of card together so it looked like a cross section of a head. Then, I cut thin strips of cardboard (making sure the the corrugated lines ran against the direction of the strip) and wrapped them around the oval shapes, securing them with masking tape. We were to try and add the necessary contours and to get the general shape of the 'head' symmetrical . I found this difficult; the face I decided to try and create was fairly complicated and had a very large nose to it was hard to get the cardboard to bend and then stay in the ways I needed it to. Another problem I encountered was that I couldn't layer up the strips of cardboard too much or it would begin to distort the shape. The way I tried to solve this was by cutting strips that were overlapping each other and then re-attaching them with masking tape so the contour was smoother. Sometimes, I found that entire strips could be removed as others took their places. Towards the end of this first stage, I began to get quite confused as to what piece was attached where and how I could regain the shape of the head that I originally wanted. Eventually, I was happy with what I had and started on the next stage. The second stage of this puppet was to create a net for it. To do this, I used sugar paper which I then wrapped around the 'head' that was made out of the cardboard from earlier. Using scissors to make darts and cut away the unwanted pieces of paper, I began to form the net for one half of the face, with the idea being that I could use the same net for both the left and right hand sides of the head so they would then become symmetrical. Again, I used masking tape to secure the paper in place as I cut and changed it so that the net would be as accurate as possible. Having created the net, I then drew around it onto a foam sheet and cut this out, making sure the the two pieces were using opposite sides of the net so that they would fit together and I wouldn't have two nets of the same side of the face. The next challenge was to put the nets back together to create the original shape of the face only this time using the foam sheet material. It was at this point, having stuck one side of the face together that I realised that I had lost some of the face contours entirely and the nose was no longer in existence. However, I decided to put the other piece of the net together, stick both of them together and see how I could adapt this to make it work. I decided that I could adapt this net and use it even if it wasn't what I had originally planned. The shape reminded me of something insect like, for example the shape of the head of an ant. Using PVA glue, I glued together the seams between the foam sheets of the inside of the puppets head, whilst this got quite messy, and took a long while to dry, it made it easier to see where I needed to cut the mouth out from when I had removed all of the masking tape and it wasn't falling apart quite so easily.
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