Today I would like to take a little bit of time to say thank you to two people who without their help Zuko…the Bo…and Me!! would never have happened. Actually, I should really be thanking two people and two cats. If you don’t remember, my children’s show Zuko…the Bo…and Me!!! was inspired by my family’s two house cats Zuko and Angus (Bo). Without those two adorable creatures I don’t know that I would have ever even thought that creating a children’s show for my capstone project would be possible…or at least not a smart choice. However, we do have the cats and I also have two very crazy yet brilliant siblings who from the day we had the cats gave them very distinct personalities and voices.
Soon it will be a year from the day my mom mentioned the idea of creating a show out of the cats. I thought she was crazy. I thought to myself, “how would you even begin to try to pull such a project off?” Then I thought about it some more, and eventually it became the project I just had to do. No documentary or any other idea would ever come close to being as creative and as fun as making a children’s show out of our cats. So that’s what I did. Now it’s almost a year later and the show is finally done!!! It was a long process and filled with tones of research, writing, rewriting, filming, and editing and a ton of stress all in a pretty short time period. Now that I can breathe again, I am so proud of my show and so amazingly grateful to everyone who helped me.
As I said before, I would like to take this time to thank my brother and sister for their help with all of the puppetry and character voices. There wasn’t too much I asked them to change from how they normally portray the cats besides toning some of the attitude down in Zuko’s case and toning Bo’s voice down (usually it is a horrible high pitch scream). They worked so hard and listened so well to what I asked them to do. Of course, that’s not say they didn’t have any fun with the characters. There were so many times during filming when I had to remind them that we very tight on filming time because they would just go on with random conversations in the cat voices or make the puppets do very random things like hold a stuffed cat holding the mic (microphone cat) and make him sing. They really helped keep things on the lighter side which helped especially when I started getting stressed.
I also want to say thank you for all the random positions I put them in. For example, they spent most of their time lying on the floor in the school’s nurses’ office with one arm in the air holding up the puppets. I know that could not have been easy or clean, especially for my brother is about 6’. They also have to roll around in the hallways on carts you find in elementary school gym classes in order for the puppets to appear to be walking along during the school tour. And all this had to be done while also making sure they were low enough so that they themselves could not be seen in the camera. I know that could not have been easy and once again I want to say thank you for being such wonderful and obliging siblings. I’m sure most would not take that kind of time and energy to help their little sister graduate from college…so thank you…I love you…and owe you big time!! J
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