Manuela and Yumeng organised the shadow puppetry between the two of them. They used a flexible pipe with a special fabric that diffuses the light from the torch to create the screen. The actual shadow puppets themselves I think are excellent! They used coloured films so that when the light passes through, the characters would be brightly coloured and provide a good contrast to the monotonous colours used for the bull and other costume pieces. The shadow puppetry section of the performance tells this elaborate story about the larger bull puppet so the characters need to show emotion. The girls managed to achieve this by having the arms and torso held on rods so that the arms can be used to signal what is happening.
BA (Hons) Costume for Theatre and Screen
