Paper Cutting Techniques for Storytelling

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Begin by sketching a landscape for your theatrical book, and then move on to character design with a shadow puppet theatre mock-up.
• Then decide on a colour scheme. Be aware of the significance of colour symbolism and how to use bright colours and neutral tones in your work.
• Using tracing paper and a lightbox, create scenarios for your theatre book.
• The principles of open and closed spaces come in help at this point for hiding and showing components of the scenes at the appropriate times
• Introduce a curtain to help frame the storey and learn how to cut the pages with a template.
• Learn how to cut right onto the book using several simple techniques.
• To emphasise the symbolic parts of the storey, add some finishing embellishments by drawing and colouring.
• After you've finished the book, look over Karishma's suggestions on how to perform the narrative and improve it by learning how to use your voice and movements.
• Finally, create a cover for your book to learn how to care for it.

Syllabus:

1.  Introduction

   • About Me

   • Influences: My Gods and Goddesses of Paper Cutting

   • What We Will Do in the Course?
      

2.  Cutting the Fold

   • Creating your Toolbox

   • A Leaf of Paper

   • Playing the Accordion

   • Pattern Cutting
      

3.  Storytelling Objects

   • A Sea of Stories

   • A World in a Box

   • Character Play
      

4.  Making a Theatre Book

   • Defining a Colour Palette

   • Sketching the Story

   • Layering the Story

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5.  Once upon a Time

   • Storytime

   • How to Care for Your Book

   • The Craft of a Paper Cutter
      

6. Final Project

   • Paper Cutting Techniques for Storytelling