Week 1 Day 2 + Our 3 ideas

Yesterday, we had our discussion with our teachers and we thought of things that curious us about wayang kulit. One example being that, after we research, we found that the wayang kulits are made very intricately, with lots of details, starting from the materials to the colouring of it. If so, then why do they still need to hide them with a white cloth and only show the shadow? We plan to find out later of the day.

Next, we went to the museum to look at how the museum portray the wayang kulit exhibit. We have some thoughts of our own. Firstly, the interactivity kiosk is too far away from the exhibit itself and the descriptions are not clear. Secondly, the music instruments that they play during a wayang kulit performance stands almost 2/3 of the whole area. These instruments are not the main idea to us and moreover, it's non touchable.

After that, we head to the library to find all our doubts and questions about wayang kulit. Some of the questions are how do we know which character is good or evil? How long do one wayang kulit performance last? Do they have music throughout the whole performance? From these questions, we branches out into some ideas that we want the viewer to know about wayang kulit can we finalised 3 main ideas.


1. Stories of Wayang Kulit
   

The types of stories they portray, is the stories emotional, horrifying or fun? Different parts of the country have different kinds of stories. We will be touching on the similarities and differences of the Wayang Kulit stories. Also, We will compare the different chapter of stories of one and another.


2. Structure of Wayang Kulit

Each Wayang Kulit Puppet has different characteristics and features. Different features can allow audience to know if this puppet is good or evil. Personally, people from other countries may not know how to tell if the characters is good or evil etc. Besides that, different designs and pattern of each puppet is also important in a Wayang Kulit show.


3. Process of making a Wayang Kulit

Showing what the Wayang Kulit is make of. How long it takes to create a one? For people who don't know, Wayang Kulit is make from hides of ox or bull and they will put it into a mixture before using them. What is this mixture? How does that helps? What other materials can be used for making it?