We worked with young kids where we asked them to explore their fishing town through photos and stories. This information is translated into interactive animation using Scratch, a free interactive software. At the end of the workshop, the children perform their pieces using projection as their backdrop. The final performance tells about a day in the life of Sasaran; a fishing village with its occupants!
Salam 1Jepun : Laksamana Doremix (2013)
Salam 1 Jepun is a 2-day event about Fairuz Sulaiman’s experience with the Japan-East Asian Network of Exchange for Students and Youths or JENESYS Programme in 2012. Salam Satu Jepun is an expressive documentation of Fairuz’s adventures in the land of the rising sun. Talks and demonstrations will be conducted for visitors during the day on his learning experience in Japan as well as `the-making-of’ his feature show, `Laksama Do Re Mix.’
The culmination of his work is a shadow-puppet or `wayang kulit’- inspired performance intergrated with color-tracking animation. Inspired by the P.Ramlee classic film `Laksmana Do Re Mi’; this show is a mixture of Japanese and Malaysian popular culture with a blend surrealistic humour.
His distinctive style of fusing analog and digital will be seen in his techniques of narrative-puppetry, color tracking animation and digital sound effects.
Main Wayang : Hikayat Sang
Kancil (2014)
Part
of Damansara Performing Arts (DPAC) Festival 2014, we were commissioned to
produce a 45 minute performance which resulted in Main Wayang : Hikayat Sang Kancil.
This
performance tells the fictionalized tale of the folklore of Hikayat Sang Kancil
combined with a few other local folklores. Presented in the form of a live
investagative TV show, Main Wayang : Hikayat
Sang Kancil utilizes several techniques like performance, music,
puppeteering, video graphics, live camera and live drawing.
The
setup of show consists of 3 projection screens, the performance console with
the audience seated in between the screens and the console. This allows the
audience to witness the puppeteers, musician and sound effects perform live to enjoy
the making-of a theatre production.
Each
screen serves a function; an interviewer screen, flashback screen and the final
composite screen. The TV host performs in front of these screens moving from
one screen to another, from interviewing various folklore puppet characters to
reading tweets in real time.
Main Wayang is an ongoing project to
explore new ways in storytelling using media.
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