FORMAT


The documentary will be modeled after the popular A&E specials and Discovery Channel documentary series: stylized graphics and computer animation will open and close the program and provide segment transitions. Off-camera narration and on-camera interviews will tell the story. Historical recordings of the Exposition Organ will provide much of the music.

The story will be told in two parts. The first part will chronicle the organ's celebrated historical beginnings and turbulent thereafter. This part of the story will be visualized through archival photographs and motion picture footage, blueprints, models, and on-camera interviews with individuals connected with the organ's past.

The first part of the documentary leads the audience to present day San Francisco. Moving into a here-and-now perspective, the remainder of the program will document the Embarcadero Music Concourse and Exposition Organ project through its completion and dedication. This part of the story will be visualized by construction-site time-lapse photography, newly shot video and additional on-camera interviews.