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OUGD505 - Design Production 2: Airport - Popular Culture

This section looks at airports within film, magazine and TV.

Catch Me If You Can
My favourite opening title sequence to a film is in Catch Me If You Can, and the beginning of it revolves around an airport. The background of it is blue, which portrays a clean, corporate feel to the airport, which I think is common in airports. 
I love the illustration of the sequence and how clean and clever the transitions are. 



Throughout the film, PanAm is featured and airports is a location that is onscreen a lot. 
Here are some stills from the movie, and portray a pilot and stewardess' as very glamorous.



Brandfreak
This article talks about how a new programme featuring Pan Am could bring it back due to the publicity it would bring and the nostalgia people will feel. Pan Am was featured in Catch Me If You Can, and is who Frank Abagnale Jr scammed in the film and real life.


LIFE
From this article I wanted to look at airlines in LIFE magazine as there is sure to be an old article on them. I love LIFE magazine and the stories it has. I typed in airline on the website, and this LIFE cover came up. It featured an article on air stewardess students - it is quite patronising and sexist, but then it was written in 1958, and shows the glamour of the job. It was a big thing for women - everyone wanted to be one as it was one of the only ways to see the world, something only men could usually do.


Here is the article.


Here are some of the photos featured:









I then started to look at television programmes which feature airports.

Airline
This was a TV documentary following the staff and customers at EasyJet airports around the UK. It ran from 1998-2006 and was really popular. It followed the staff as well as the passengers in their life, as well as focussing on the rules and regulations of airports. It gives an insight to what airports are really like - a big contrast to the glamorous pictures depicted in the previous pictures and Catch Me If You Can.
It shows how stressful it can actually be when passengers miss their flight, have to leave items behind or forget passports etc.
Here is one of the episodes from the show.


Nothing To Declare
Another programme, Nothing To Declare, is Australian and focusses on passing people through security. It looks at problems such as letting food/plants into the country, drugs and suspicious passengers. I find this really interesting too, as some people are so unbelievable with the things they do and stories they come up with to get drugs into another country. It also shows how strict the border is, as it doesn't seem like anyone gets through.


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