7 tips setting up your ventriloquist show. #rkpshows

on this workshop notes, we are going to briefly take a quick look at setting up your ventriloquist show for live kids audiences, such as for libraries and preschools or even the boys and girls club.

In this note taking and study we will use the photo for the blue print for the subject. we will start with the room,# 1. look at the room in the photo, some school class rooms can have the chairs and tables moved to another location to provide more space, space for your stage, most libraries have a room that is used for meetings and entertainment,this room has plenty of space. # 2. Let’s take a look at the audience, the audience is sitting on the floor, this is good for kids because they are comfortable sitting or laying on the floor, they will also be looking upwards slightly at you as if in watching TV while sitting on the floor, in the photo the ventriloquist is at a distance from the audience but if your audience is sitting on the floor you can be near or at a distance they can still see you clearly. # 3 The ventriloquist in the photo is wearing a hands free microphone, these types of microphones are very good for the ventriloquist to use, this type of microphone is directly at mouth level so that speaking is loud and clear, these microphones are wireless or cordless and give you freedom to move around..# 4. if you look in the back ground of the photo you see the audio sound system speaker on a speaker stand, this speaker sound system is good for this room size,most speaker sound system are a pair but this kind is perfect for the kids audiences in a small or medium size room. Let’s take a look at the ventriloquist trunk, # 5. the trunk has the ventriloquist booking information on the front facing the audience, this is good, this is a way of networking or self promo or advertising. Your booking information on your ventriloquist trunk is not just for audiences, it’s also when you are traveling, such as airports, hotel lobbies, small coffee house,bus station, train station, yes I am serious your ventriloquist trunk is a portable billboard. # 6. now I would like you to look at the ventriloquist in the above photo,look at her sitting position, you may want to sit on a bar stool or you might want to sit your ventriloquist figure on a ventriloquist dummy stand during your shows, you may want to sit in a chair how ever you choose to sit make sure the sitting position doesn’t spoil the illusion, what’s the point in speaking with out moving your lips if your little partner don’t look like he or she is talking, this means sit in a way that will create the illusion of life for your ventriloquist figure, sit side by side or close enough where the audience don’t see your arm in your partner back,take a look at the photo,the ventriloquist in the photo sitting position is very good, I can’t see her arm in the ventriloquist puppet back and her ventriloquist puppet look life like. # 7. always arrive early enough to set up your equipment or setup your ventriloquist show,if the show starts at noon try to get there one hour early.