Is a Red Herring always a Red Herring?
Disclaimer: Answer to question is not present within blog post.
We’ve begun generating the room content properly now. Obviously a lot of the existing content such as posters, email threads and journals will be in the rooms, its only now starting have we realised how much we’re going to need. In our document (see Google drive) we’ve outlined all that we need to create as main aspects of the installation. Depending on time constraints there may be more secondary material that although doesn’t add anything to the narrative itself they expand upon the universe ensuring the room has an authentic feel. The downside of this sort of material though is that what is essential to the narrative may become lost. This is why we intent to focus upon the essential artefacts.
One of the key artefacts is a set of news articles that will expand upon the past of ACTIV and parallel blog content. These articles will be presented as printouts of online articles and I have used Photoshop to create them. This course of production was taken over reproducing newspaper clippings due to presenting the authenticity. I feel that the time taken to print the articles and to make them look like news clippings isn’t justified when I can print them out as online news articles. To create them I have started with a few different articles as templates, charging the content with each piece.
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