Oops...forgot to add comments last week. The concern was that the idea of storytelling was the strongest drive to this event, and that downplaying the massive, imposing structure that is the nature of Alcatraz (by using a backed-off, distant image) removes the viewer from the experience by appropriating the tourist's or outsiders viewpoint of the destination instead of that of a guard, guard's family, or inmate, who would be facing the scale and grit of the facility every day. The vintage photos were a great aesthetic starting point. The horn might be a bit ambiguous.
Maybe using the newspaper headline typefaces of the day, as if to announce a jailbreak, might be a starting point to publicizing this reunion event visually? Or antique signage, or brass-plaque engraving? The nod toward artifacts of the era seems like a pretty powerful approach...I like it.
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Oops...forgot to add comments last week. The concern was that the idea of storytelling was the strongest drive to this event, and that downplaying the massive, imposing structure that is the nature of Alcatraz (by using a backed-off, distant image) removes the viewer from the experience by appropriating the tourist's or outsiders viewpoint of the destination instead of that of a guard, guard's family, or inmate, who would be facing the scale and grit of the facility every day. The vintage photos were a great aesthetic starting point. The horn might be a bit ambiguous.
Maybe using the newspaper headline typefaces of the day, as if to announce a jailbreak, might be a starting point to publicizing this reunion event visually? Or antique signage, or brass-plaque engraving? The nod toward artifacts of the era seems like a pretty powerful approach...I like it.
my $0.02...hope it helps.
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