Kahani aur Khel | CEPT

Kahani Aur Khel is an insight into the studio which highlights the journey of the stories and games. It mainly focuses on narrating or telling the viewers the stories along with games. Gundiyali which is a crafts village near Mandvi is the main highlight of the studio and many of the exercises done revolve around the village. There are mainly 5 exercises. The main thing that I learned from all these exercises was how to translate an idea or a story into a storybook or novel or narrative maps.

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This exercise reflects upon translating collected data about a person into a storybook about any life event of that person. Questions like- How? Why? When? were raised for the data collection. Along with the translation of collected information it teaches about script writing and asking questions to a person. The first thing was the collection of data from the person about their lifestyle. Then converting the collected information into a script and later a story. The last step was creating a fin

This exercise is about telling your story through a craft form. This exercise was a craft-based narrative in which we had to depict our previous semester journey based upon the chosen craft. The pattachitra scroll has its main aspect in the background patterns and the borders. The first step of this exercise was learning and researching about the craft form we choose. The second step was to emulate any original work of the chosen craft form. The next step was making a timeline about the studio.

This was a sub exercise of the Gundiyali narrative maps exercise in which we were supposed to make a map on the family of Salim Kasambhai. While talking to Salim Kasambhai and his small but largely extended family which was the entire village, I realized his love for music, shayeris and dohes. So, in this map the music of Mukesh his favorite singer is highlighted along with the maatlas and plates made during that. It has used the same medium as the other map and the border has been given a burnt

This is a context map surrounding the six families of Gundiyali. The kids were a big part of the village. Their lives evolved around these crafts and it was an interesting element to see how it changes or affects their lives growing up. So, this map along with the six family houses shows the kids and their activities on a holiday.

This exercise was about building a game keeping Gundiyali as the context for it. As all games should have it needed to have certain rules and guidelines for the game to be played. This exercise taught us about the details that goes in planning a game which is from the rules to the entire packaging. The poster was a part which needed to give the player or the user a glimpse of the game without showing the entire game. Since this is a maze about a craft village dealing with maatlas, the idea of a

Developing a game incorporating Gundiyali. A poster giving the glimpse of the game. The steps and rules that need to be followed for the game to be played. The elements of the game which are used in many ways. The guide of the game. How the entire packaging of the game is done.

This is about putting all the learnings throughout the studio into one novel. The novel is all about creating your own story about objects of Gundiyali. The process was about creating a story board and the digitizing it. Creating the story board into a novel with all the details.

The process was about creating a story board and the digitising it. Creating the story board into a novel with all the details. It also taught me how to translate my learnings from Gundiyali into a story. How a graphic novel works the formatting and the dialogues that was the most important learnings.

Gundiyali is a village in Mandvi, Kachchh. The Kumbhar fadiyu there is famous for making teracotta products like maatla, toys, plates, bottles. The most interesting thing about the village were the kids and how their lives evolved around the crafts. This village is all about its craft and the people there. People there are welcoming. All members of the village is related to each other in some manner or the other, their unity and respect for each other is a remarkable thing. While talking to them

Mata ni pachedi is an intricate hand made craft. It is done with kalamkari style. There are only natural colours used. It is done on a madarpath which is used after doing a detailed process on the cloth so that it does not absorb the colour applied. The black colour is made by soaking the iron in hot water and boiling it, the piece of iron releases a black colour. This black colour is used to draw the outline drawing of the pachedi. A kitha is used to draw the outline. The kitha is a bamboo stic

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Amin Khushi Niravbhai

IR2022

Developing a game incorporating Gundiyali. A poster giving the glimpse of the game. The steps and rules that need to be followed for the game to be played. The elements of the game which are used in many ways. The guide of the game. How the entire packaging of the game is done.

This is about putting all the learnings throughout the studio into one novel. The novel is all about creating your own story about objects of Gundiyali. The process was about creating a story board and the digitizing it. Creating the story board into a novel with all the details.