The Poster up!

Plan

For my idea,
My booth setup will be like something on picture below.
A curtain fabric white and a bulbs for the lighting to make shadow for the wayang kulit.
While for the interactive ,I'll put my laptop on a small table in front of the stage and user have to sit to start to play the informative part.

User need to sit in front ofthe real wayang kulit stages,Enjoying the wayang kulit while exploring the interactive application from the laptop to get the information of wayang kulit.

CD Information about

the wayang kulit ,
the history,
the making of puppet,
the charcters,
the musical instrument
and many more to exploring.

The things need to prepare

The characters of wayang kulit

The dalang ( not the real dalang but maybe my friend will help me on this )

The curtainAnd the bulbs .

Technical Requirement:

Macromedia Flash for animating images
Adobe Illustrator for vectoring images
Adobe Photoshop for manipulation images

Project Output:

The output will be on CD ROM version.

Expected Findings:

- User will be able to experience a new kind of information delivered in a new interactive method.
- By comparing virtual wayang kulit and traditional wayang kulit,user will be able to participant actively in the story process and this making them understand the story, the characters and the play much better.
-User will be able to gain more knowledge about bthe uniqueness of the ancient of wayang kulit.




Erk..It's the time!

Erk?Hurry up~!
No more time on rushing there and rushing here ..
My brother's wedding went smoothly yesterday and ..
It's the time to focus on this,my FYP!

Wayang Kulit instruments

These are the basic instruments used in the shadow play performance.

OpenGL

When I’m doing my research, I found an interesting software that can be use for my animation effect of wayang kulit.This software named OpenGL. OpenGL? OpenGL 2.1 brings one of the most marvelous premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing thousands of applications to a wide variety of computer platforms. OpenGL fosters innovation and speeds application development by incorporating a broad set of rendering, texture mapping, special effects, and other powerful visualization functions. Developers can leverage the power of OpenGL across all popular desktop and workstation platforms, ensuring wide application deployment. I’ll try to execute with this software, research for more tutorial and example of games.

gantt chart

Content Developement

For my content on my application I'll put a brief about wayang kulit kelantan.
This is some data of information that I collect.
I'll just highlight the interesting topic/part and play with the typography to make this information interesting to read.

"Wayang Kulit is a popular shadow puppet show in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, especially those in Kota Bharu, Kelantan and Terengganu, and also in Johor. The origin of the theatre is still remained a mistery, but it was brought to Malaya hundreds of years ago.

There used to be four main varieties of the form in this country: the Wayang Kulit Siam of Kelantan; the Wayang Gedek, performed by the Thai communities of Kedah and Perlis; the Wayang Kulit Jawa, performed by the Javanese communities in Selangor and Johor; and the Wayang Kulit Melayu, performed by the Javanese communities of Terengganu. Today, only the first two are performed.

One man is responsible for breathing life into this array of characters: the master puppeteer and storyteller known as the Tok Dalang.

As a solo performer who representing all the heroes and heroines in the story, Dalang is the key of the performance - a masterly producer, conductor, puppeteer, historian, wise man, commedian, and the story-teller. Apart from this, Dalang also knows most of the music instruments meanwhile as the bomoh (Malay traditional practitioner). In the few hours of show, Dalang doesn’t only play the puppets, but also translates the voices of all the roles in the story apart from giving hints to the gamelan, sings and reads out loud. In some stories, the Dalang even uses ancient or classic dialect which in fact has long lost in the flow of time.

He will breath new life into each re-telling of those ancient tales, continually reaffirming the currency and relevance of the harmony of life, the balance between antagonist and protagonist, giving a little homour, making the whole performance alive. Beside the usual story line, some good Dalangs react things that happen the day or make a joke as to cheer the audience. Atmosphere and the emotion of the hall are controlled and manipulated by the Dalang in his rising and falling voice. Sometime when it comes to an excited point, the hall could be in a tumult while come to the sadness plot, you might hear the sound of sneezing or see weeping eyes.

To keep up with the times, today's Tok Dalangs do not only use the Kelantanese dialect but also mainstream Bahasa Malaysia, a few English words, the occasional Bollywood song, and even familiar tunes from TV serials to spice up their performance. The best thing is they always improvise as they perform, so audiences don't get a fixed dialogue or narration with every show."

precedence study on vectoring wayang kulit

A vector image of wayang kulit that i found from my friend's blog.

Nice! Very details .

She vectoring wayang kulit.This is the concept what I'll do for my characters images design .
I will vectoring the wayang kulit characters using Adobe Illustrator.
Fully vectorized.

I will post any wayang kulit in vector images as my references.Will guide me on the details sucject,color,concept etc. will research more as my precedence study.

data collections : video of wayang kulit kelantan

Wayanng Kulit Kelantan videos that I browse from youtube.
Wayang Kulit Kelantan used Kelantan dialect ,so some people just enjoying the music and the storyline without knowing the meaning of the word.

I have my own video of wayang kulit that I record ,but I cannot upload it here ,got some error.I will try it later.

enjoy this video first.

Examples video of

Data collection

As in Wayang Kulit, we define the puppet as a source of energy continuously sending users into altered states of consciousness, breaking constraints, and boundaries of the material world. However, the word “puppet” frequently appears in the digital realm to indicate a form of Avatar, being mainly manifested as a representation of the materialism of real world. Deeply rooted in the Cartesian hierarchy of separation between subject and object, in the digital media culture a puppet is considered as something to be manipulated and controlled, ignoring its transformative relationship with the user. In the digital translation of puppetry, we are interested in how interactive technology will support ancient wisdoms of ritual, revealing transformative relationships of puppet and puppeteer, resulting in performances of great excitement, public engagement and reflection of the community, creating rich layers of mixed reality environments. In fact, Wayang Kulit offers complicated layers of mixed reality, which allows viewers to walk around the screen, watching the real puppet and its virtual form as a shadow at the same time. Mixed reality does not only happen in viewer/puppeteer’s consciousnessat the moment the shadow becomes alive with its own spirit, but also in the viewer’s perception struggling between real and virtual forms of presentation, walking around the screen. This kind of setting creates rich platforms for discussing reality, virtuality and mixed reality all together, which we adopt as our methodology in order to explore the full potential of virtual puppetry.

presedence study

Reverse Shadow Theatre is an installation created with the Animata real-time animation editor.

Wayang Kulit is the indonesian shadow puppet theater, in which finely carved and painted leather puppets move behind a screen making the audiance see their shadows only. In our installation the situation is reversed. The role of the elaborate puppets is emphasized, while the visitor is a mere shadow trying to control the puppets by her movements.

Credits:

Bence Samu - animation, video documentation, programming
Peter Nemeth, Gabor Papp - programming
Agoston Nagy - sounds

Reverse Shadow Theatre and Animata are developed in Kitchen Budapest in 2007-2008.

Balinese Shadow Puppet + Virtual Interactive Puppet + Live Drawing and Storytelling)
Grace Street Theater , November 8 2007, Thursday 7 pm - Richmond VA USA
Puppeteer: I Gusti Putu Sudarta
Virtual Puppets and Interactive System: Semi Ryu and Stefano Faralli
Music: Andrew McGraw
Background flame : Christopher Romero

"Experimental Virtual Wayang" is a contemporary translation of the traditional Balinese (Indonesia) shadow puppet performance ("wayang kulit"), featuring virtual interactive puppets and a realtime background drawing system, bringing the sprit of live improvisation into storytelling.

This project explores two ideas of shadow; traditional shadows casted by wayang puppets, and digital shadows, projected images of virtual puppets projected one same screen. The shadow master will be able to simultaneously manipulate traditional puppets as well as virtual puppets which have been fitted with infrared units which will be monitored by a motion and position detection system. This system then communicates with a three-dimensional computer graphics system which will project virtual puppets onto the same screen used to display the traditional wayang puppets. He will be able to change the look of the virtual puppet and to control its movements based upon his own voice. This project opens the interactive system to public, inviting people to draw background images, interacting with puppeteer and musician, during the performance.

wayang kulit multimedia
The birth of Gatotkaca, son of Bima (second of Pandawa) in multimedia version - video 3 of 4 -

an interactive installation or an informative CD?

I want to do an interactive installation but I am afraid of my ability on technical part so I decide to do an Informative Interactive CD using Macromedia Flash for animation , 3D Max for modeling and Adobe Photoshop for picture manipulation.

The application will consist on all about wayang kulit.The history of wayang kulit,the characters,the gamelan music, the storyline, the process of making a wayang kulit,the dalang and all about wayang kulit itself.

The content that I will put on my application is not only the fact and general knowledge about wayang kulit,but I want to put an interactive slot that can let user play with the character of wayang kulit.An interaction that will let user enjoy with wayang kulit.

But I’m still thinking want to do an interactive installation.I research on software that provide motion detection.I found many software but I’m not decide yet which one that can fix my idea on my application.

Will look on it later.soon.Keep update.Keep update.dont stuck in the middle.

celcom broadband please be good,i’m doing my research now…;)

social behaviour among malaysian youth : lack of interest on malaysia traditional entertainment.

Lack of interest in wayang kulit among Malaysian youth. Malaysian youth nowadays are not interested anymore on traditional entertainment because of digital technology that provides more digital interactive entertainment. They had no interest to watch wayang kulit although that either unsure cultural Malay heritage which contains art values, education and entertaining. For them watch wayang kulit is a waste of time because their out of date showmanship ,boring and story-telling of old history. They are more interested in watching story on television or action stories in cinema theatres or only casually play video game which promises attractive special effects. This is because of influence of new media technology that provides more entertainment. They forgot about their culture and just follow the technology. Lack of interest in traditional entertainment because they think that who included with wayang kulit only group old folks only.They also unexposed with wayang kulit culture in their environment and innocents on puppet theatre because puppet theatre only bring to in tourism seasons only. They dislike atmosphere open air, noisy and congested with members of the public who come see the wayang kulit.They forced gathered mass because wayang kulit usually projected at a clearing whether field or hall. Different on the other hand for them who are looking wayang kulit show as a symbolic and rich presentation with its ulterior knowledge and arts behind statue gesture ,gamelan and story music delivered.As if this puppet theatre presentation with role as a from which media convey messages and lesson to society. Only the researcher who involve in wayang kulit will appreciate it.

Wayang Kulit

Topic:

Wayang Kulit.

Background:

Shadow play or shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images.

In Malaysia (Kelantan), shadow puppet plays are known as wayang kulit. In Malay, Wayang means shadow or imagination, while Kulit means skin and refers to the leather that puppets are made from. Stories presented are usually mythical & morality tales. There is an educational moral to the plays which usually portray a battle between Malay shadow plays are sometimes considered one of the earliest examples of animation.

Wayang “Virtual” was inspired by the tradition of storytelling using pictures in the Southeast Asian art form originally known as the shadow play.

The idea of the research project was an experimental attempt at combining traditional Wayang Kulit together media technology.

Problem Identification:

Lack of interest to watch wayang kulit.( traditional entertainment) because of influence of new media technology ( televison , media player, karaoke set, cinema )

Forgotten about their culture, only people who do research on culture will appreciate it.

Aim and objective:

To research new approaches on interactive design.

To ensure the cultural ancestors of our era is not swallowed

To promote the shadow play for young generation.

To approach design principal in this concept.

Rerefences

http://mndl.hu/works/reverse_shadow_theatre

http://www.symbiosisonline.com/aug05_art.htm

http://www.mndl.hu/works

video

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_me2Zz7q4]

[http://vimeo.com/706938]