KEN BURNS — PHOTOGRAPH DOCUMENTARY STYLE

VISUAL STYLE: Ken Burns documentary technique — slow pans and zooms across still images, creating the sensation of moving through frozen time. Archive photographs brought gently to life.

COLOUR PALETTE: The palette of archive — sepia, aged monochrome, slightly faded colour photography from the 1960s and 70s. The warmth of old paper and old light.

MOVEMENT: Slow, deliberate pan across a still image, or a slow zoom into a detail. The movement is unhurried and respectful. It finds meaning in the corner of the image everyone else passed over.

IMAGES: Appear as photographs — with borders, slight age, occasional crease or fold. They are displayed as objects, not as seamless animation. The frame around the photograph is visible.

TEXT: Simple, serif, restrained. Appears as caption below image. Names, dates, places. The weight of documentary fact.

TRANSITIONS: One photograph dissolves slowly into the next. The archive unfolds one image at a time.

No animation. No infographics. No modern design language. The patient accumulation of evidence.