0 Critique 2: Idea Development

IDEA DEVELOPMENT

Mainly, my idea will be focusing on an interactive graphic story which include characters, story, background and sound effect.

I will implement some sort of concept on exploring while educating for this project. Its a book with stories there will be lights,sound and sensor. My idea is to create characters as the user will be the character. I'll be using more on 2D style concept for the design of the whole story. Furthermore, it will be pop-up style with some navigation for the user to interact will be included same goes to the light and sound.

Recently, i did my research on 2D style from end/credit page of a movie and websites, some interactive pop-up books reference that will help me developing my idea:

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The White Rabbit

http://www.thewhiterabbit.com.sg/

"Stay In My Memory" by Bim

i really like these video clip because it's inspiring and interesting. It give another discovery of pop-up books stuff as music can also been used in to show its story.

PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit

0 Critique 2: Analysis

My analysis is more on pop-up books since i'm doing interactive stories. What is pop-up book anyway? Well its origin from a book which been transform into kind of more exciting and interactive with adaptation of 2 dimensional movable books.

Some of research on pop-up have been done which inspiring me along the way to develop more toward this project

The pop-up book of phobias

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz popup book

Older version of pop-up book it only have image which pop out and little bit of storyline here and there but the evolution of technology now days has make pop-up book into digitalization medium where you can simulated the content by touch/navigation/controller. Even pop-up book can be means to educated or play games.

Here some example:

Legendry Pirates Books

http://www.secondstory.com/portfolio/works/legendary-pirates-book

The Three Little Pigs-interactive kids story book

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Preschool Storybook

Luna

As we can see from the example, we expect that through this technology can be enhanced in two ways. A narrative enabling the user to learn as they play and secondly, the mechanism allow for exploration that can be adopted.

0 Critique 2: Background Research

BACKGROUND RESEARCH

If we analyze this period of time, we mostly remember or adore western folklore tales stories such as Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Beauty & The Beast, etc by Walt Disney rather than our own Malaysian folk tales or known as "Cerita Dongeng Rakyat". Why? Because now days as we can see that there's minimal efforts on implementation or preservation given to bring back local content of our own "Malaysian Folklore Stories: Folk Tales".

Basically what is folklore anyways? Folklore is a universal form, a great symbolic literature which represents the folk. It is something that came from the masses, not something that is put over on the masses. These folk tales have a definite structure. From the folk tale, one learns one’s role in life; one learns the tragic dilemma of life, the battle between good and evil, between weak and strong. One learns that if he is kind, generous, and compassionate. The triumph is for all that is good in the human spirit. Generally, i can says that these were our experiences of life's; changing patterns and knowing good from evil; kindness from cruelty and the difference between ambition and despair.

Folk tales comprises various of categories such as fable, fairy, myth, legends......

Therefore, why it's so important or purpose on doing this sort of project? Mostly to explore and educate younger generation as folktales convey the way the culture passed down their morals and ways of life. It's the way culture kept alive and valued by its people.

Here are the list of stories that i had found recently:

• sang kancil
• si tanggang
• bawang putih bawang merah
• badang
• si luncai dan labu-labunya
• pak kaduk
• pak pandir
• pak belalang
• mat jenin
• awang lutung

*the story i choose will be update soon..