Props, Scenery, Costumes and Makeup: Ventriloquist Dummy

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Ventriloquist Dummy

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Topic: Ventriloquist Dummy

Posted By: neilfortin
Subject: Ventriloquist Dummy
Date Posted: 9/25/07 at 8:16pm

Hey! Looking to make someone up to look like a ventriloquist dummy...wondering if there was any way using a prosthetic peice, or just makeup techniques! Thanks.

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Posted By: Kathy S
Date Posted: 9/25/07 at 11:58pm

I can envision a combination of both, by using a partial face mask that would include everything from the forehead to just under the nose, allowing the mouth and jaw to be mobile and easily heard -- the ones in a sort of Italian commedia del arte style. The costume would also be important -- maybe a bit of a too small blazer with sleeves that are just a bit short to give a kind of wooden, stilted look that the dummies have.

Make any sense?

Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 9/26/07 at 11:55am

Yes definitley. This one is going to be hard to pull off. If you have seen Chicago, the movie, they made Rene Z. up to look like a dummy, came out really well, understated, but with that definite stilted look !

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