<i>Kurt & Pino. </i>Output from a period of R&D experimenting with clown and puppet using Open Broadcast Software

<p dir="ltr"><<a href="https://youtu.be/XxUHCjm69eI" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XxUHCjm69eI</a>></p><p dir="ltr">Video published on YouTube on 29/06/22.</p><p dir="ltr">From November 2021 to May 2022 Richard Talbot conducted an online exchange from Salford, UK with puppeteer Kay Aika who is based in Yokohama, Japan. Initially they exchanged a series of gestures performed by one side and reproduced by the other, to analyse gesture and movement by human (clown) and puppet. They began with selected gestures were derived from classic Vaudeville training taught by acrobat Jonny Hutch (1913-2006, ). The recordings were then used to devise material and create backgrounds. The material drew on the opening sections of <i>Pinocchio</i>, in versions by Collodi (1881) and Morpurgo (2013) and a collage of photos of Japan by Talbot and by Naoyuki Osawa. A bilingual script written with Kay Aika was created and the video was narrated by Talbot using comedy performance and affordances of OBS layering to slip between roles.</p><p dir="ltr">The edit is a combination of livestream storytelling, including live editing put together post production with additional scripted elements. This was preceded by research and development using crude domestic green screen (a constraint of the Covid lockdown that was then maintained to encourage involvement by domestic and amateur and non-expert participants. The script and video content was devised in a collaboration between Japan and the UK, Kay Aika and Richard Talbot. The narration is an adaptation of scenes in which Pinocchio, here "Pino- Kun", is swindled by The Cat.</p>