MMD 3213

MEDIA ART PROJECT DESIGN 1

FINAL YEAR PROJECT

MOHAMAD ASHRAF BIN MANSOR1101107451

Research Topic: Lacking Knowledge of Historical Building In New Urbanization

BackgroundWhat is historical?Historical means something from the past. historical came from the word history. History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events.

What is building?Building means any human made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy. Buildings come in a wide amount of shapes and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, to land prices, ground conditions, specific uses and aesthetic reasons. Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from weather and as general living space, to provide privacy, to store belongings and to comfortably live and work.

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Problem Identification

People nowadays do not knowledge and appreciate the historical value of a historical building.

Aim & Objectives To provide information about a historical building.  To help people to understand more about historical building. To encourage people to learn more about historical building in an

developing urban city. To educate people to appreciate an art and architecture of a

historical building. 

Motivation I myself lack of knowledge about any historical building. So from

this project I hope I could understand more about a certain historical building.

Only know a big, tall and nice building in a developing urban city. For example KLCC.

Ideation & concept Information projection mapping  Information Website / Interactive application 

RESEARCH OF THE MOSQUE

The Kapitan Keling Mosque is the largest historic mosque in Penang located along Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. It was first built by the east India Company troops when they arrived in Penang towards the end of the 18th century.

  Caudeer Mohudeen was the Kapitan Keling (headman) at that time applied for a land grant as a larger and more permanent mosque was necessary. In 1801 the East India company granted 18 acres of land where builders and materials from India was brought to construct the mosque. After Caudeer Mohudeen’s death in 1834, part of the land was taken to build public roads and houses were built around the mosque, slowly reducing its area to 8 acres in 1903. The present mosque was built in 1916 replacing the old building and its dome shaped minaret reflects Islamic architecture with Indian influence.

The Kapitan Keling Mosque is a place of worship of the Indian Muslim community who have lived and worked around the mosque with a continuous history of over two hundred years.

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

Video Projection Mapping is an exciting new projection technique that can turn almost any surface into a dynamic video display. Projection mapping techniques allow us to paint real world using a simple video projector. Specialized software is used to warp and mask the projected image to make it fit perfectly on irregularly shaped screens. With a single projector connected to a laptop, we can project our video, images, colors to differently oriented surfaces and compensate projection distortion using deformable quads that can be adjusted directly on the screen by simply dragging their corners.When done right, the end result is a dynamic projection installation that transcends ordinary video projection.

RESEARCH ON PROJECTION MAPPING

Research IssueIn our society we are lack of knowledge on a certain historical building. Youngsters only know new architecture building such as condominium and KLCC. They lack of   knowledge of old design architecture in this new era of urbanization. Nice and tall buildings only build in developing urban areas. So they only notice what do they see. An approach should be done to attract more people to appreciate a historical building. A certain historical building architechture got its own sentimental value and should be appreciated by us in this new developing era of urbanization. 

Methodology Gathering data from internet sources, journals, magazine and

newspaper Visual gathering Interview

For the final project, I decided to do projection mapping on the miniature that involves projecting video/visual from the projector to the stage area.

The idea, technically, is about the projection mapping of a historical building in Penang. Miniature used as for replacing the actual mosque. The mosque miniature will become the actual Kapitan Keling Mosque that tell us how important preserving a historical building. As the mapping goes, it projected visual/video to the miniature.

Idea Development

Stage Floor

This is the rough sketches on the stage area that I plan to do.

2D design of my stage floor plan from top view.

Budget Listing

Visual Gathering

Social Context

-Lacking know knowledge of historical building in a social community.

-What do people think about historical building

Historical Context

-Development of historical building and new building.

-How a certain shape of a building in 50 years back and nowadays.

Contextual Studies

Video Collection

This is the screen shot of my video since I cant upload it in here.

Content Development

Storyboard

Flowchart

Media Type : Animation and Video Estimated Scenes : 5 Estimated Timeline : 5 minutes

Software usedIn order to generate, edit and publish the content of the visual needed for projection, I will be using a few software :

Video and animation-Adobe Flash-Adobe Premiere Pro-Adobe After Effect-Adobe Soundbooth

Projection Mapping-TextMachine 3D-MadMapper

Software Testing

This is the printscreen of software testing(Adobe Flash)

This is the printscreen of software testing(Adobe Premiere Pro)

Poster Design

The Kapitan Keling Mosque is the largest historic mosque in Penang located along Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. It was first built by the east India Company troops when they arrived in Penang towards the end of the 18th century. Caudeer Mohudeen was the Kapitan Keling (headman) at that time granted 18 acres of land where builders and materials from India was brought to construct the mosque. After Caudeer Mohudeen’s death in1834, part of the land was taken to build public roads and houses were built around the mosque, slowly reducing its area to 8 acres in 1903. The present mosque was built in 1916 replacing the old building and its dome shaped minaret reflects Islamic architecture with Indian influence. The Kapitan Keling Mosque is a place of worship of the Indian Muslim community who have lived and worked around the mosque with a continuous history of over two hundred years.

This is a projection mapping installation art that showcases architecture, art craft, historical value and environment of the Kapitan Keling Mosque. It involves a high quality projector that project visual and video to the miniature that have been setup to the stage. The miniature represent the actual Kapitan Keling Mosque.

The purpose of this projection mapping art is to invite people to gain knowledge and history of architecture and historical value of a certain historic building. The miniature will be the main subject for audience to focus as the montage starts to project on the stage. The projector will be projecting multiple video and visual on the miniature accompanied by background music.

Final Synopsis